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Class action wants GetSwift to give heads up if cash dips below $25M
Securities 2020-08-19 10:01 pm By Christine Caulfield

The lead applicant in a shareholder class action against GetSwift and its managing director wants the logistics provider to give notice of any decision that would see its cash and other liquid holdings fall to less than $25 million.

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Transurban hit with class action over ‘unreasonable’ admin fees
Transportation & Infrastructure 2020-08-19 5:48 pm By Alison Eveleigh

Toll road operator Transurban faces a class action alleging it charge Queensland road users “unreasonable” administrative fees on unpaid tolls.

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Accounting firm hits back at class action over ‘worthless and unsaleable’ Guvera shares
Class Actions 2020-08-19 5:48 pm By Alison Eveleigh

The accounting firm at the centre of a class action over failed music streaming platform Guvera has hit back at claims it was negligent in promoting an investment opportunity in the failed tech company.

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$2.5M settlement in GST class action wins court approval
Class Actions 2020-08-19 5:34 pm By Alison Eveleigh

A judge has signed off on a $2.5 million settlement of a class action against the developers of the Governor Place residential complex in Canberra brought by apartment owners over the GST payments on their units, with the funder of the proceedings to earn $1.9 million.

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Judge drags Mark Elliott’s son, costs consultant into Banksia class action fee scandal
Class Actions 2020-08-19 5:15 pm By Christine Caulfield

The son of controversial funder and lawyer Mark Elliott has been joined to proceedings alleging the lawyers behind the Banksia Securities class action conspired to pocket excessive fees in the case, after a court heard there was a “litany” of evidence he was party to the alleged fraudulent scheme.

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Union threatens ‘wave of class actions’ against universities for underpayments
Education 2020-08-18 2:24 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

The National Tertiary Education Union has launched a class action investigation against Australia’s universities for alleged wage theft, the latest sector to be engulfed by the country’s underpayments scandal.

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Facebook, Google hit with class action over cryptocurrency ad ban
Competition & Consumer Protection 2020-08-18 2:12 pm By Alison Eveleigh

Facebook and Google have been hit with a class action alleging their 2018 decisions to ban advertising of cryptocurrencies breached competition laws.

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Class action launched against Melbourne aged care home at centre of COVID-19 outbreak
COVID-19 2020-08-18 12:22 pm By Alison Eveleigh

The son of a 92-year-old woman who died after she contracted COVID-19 at a Melbourne aged care home has launched a class action against the residential facility, claiming damages for stress and anxiety caused by his mother’s death.

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Silk Norman O’Bryan, Mark Elliott’s son targeted in bid to recoup $7M legal bill
Trials 2020-08-17 9:22 pm By Christine Caulfield

Disgraced senior counsel Norman O’Bryan and the son of deceased lawyer Mark Elliott are among the targets of a summons for $7 million in legal bills racked up in the fight over commission and costs in the Banksia Securities class action, a fight that has already claimed the career of O’Bryan and another barrister.

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Insurers dragged into Gunns plantation class action
Class Actions 2020-08-17 3:15 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

Two insurance companies have been joined as respondents to a class action against forestry giant Gunns over the failure of six managed investment schemes for eucalyptus wood in Tasmania.

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