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A potential issue has arisen in a shareholder class action against Light & Wonder over an employee's theft of rival Aristocrat's trade secrets, with the court hearing the gaming company's $190 million settlement with Aristocrat requires it to destroy documents that could be relevant to the case.
The applicants in class actions over alleged engine defects in Hyundai and Kia vehicles can file amended cases, over the objections of the car makers, which claim the new pleadings are "worse" despite millions of dollars having been spent on discovery.
Challenging the first win for shareholders in a class action, logistics company Brambles says a trial judge erred in his findings on liability as well as loss.
Insurer Vero may be hit with a cross-claim in a class action against Fairview Architectural over allegedly combustible cladding, a court has heard.
A judge has allowed a "painfully slow" competition class action against Sony over its PlayStation store practices to file an amended pleading, after expressing concerns the case was not properly resourced.
Domino's Pizza has been found to have engaged in misleading or deceptive conduct in representations about staff wages to its Australian franchisees, in a class action judgment three and a half years in the making.
In the six years since Victoria introduced a contingency fee regime, close to $200 million has been paid out to class action law firms. And with the Supreme Court soon to hear applications for approval of three more settlements, one firm is set to earn the highest payout to date.
The litigation funder that backed a recently settled shareholder class action against the directors of collapsed mining company CuDeco and KPMG will seek a 35 per cent cut from the settlement.
A judge has ordered a class action against Fitch to fork over $12.4 million in security, refusing to discount the sum for what the class action called the company's 'Rolls-Royce' defence.
A court has approved an application to drop a class action on behalf of former students at Fairbridge Farm School in NSW over alleged abuse, after the law firm running the case said it was "uneconomic".