Paladin Energy has been hit with a shareholder class action over alleged misleading disclosures to the market about expected production at its flagship uranium mine in Namibia.
A judge has been asked to approve a $64.25 million settlement in a class action against the trustees of the MLC Super Fund, hearing the settlement, reached just prior to the dismissal of a similar class action, was on the “higher end”.
The applicant in a failed class action by members of NAB’s MLC Super fund can’t access a settlement deed in a separate class action against the fund trustee, which resolved days after the applicant’s case was thrown out.
A judge has struck out an “incoherent” COVID-19 vaccine-related class action, saying someone could go “mad” trying to understand the pleadings in the case.
Bupa has been hit with a class action alleging it violated consumer laws by providing poor-quality care to residents at aged care facilities.
A franchisee class action against United Petroleum over alleged loss-making Pie Face stores has been ordered to hand over $3.7 million in security, with a judge finding it was not likely to stultify the class action.
Brokerage firm International Capital Markets says a class action over risky financial products must put up or shut up when it comes to claims in the case that neither applicant has standing to bring.
That it once had a $100,000 bank cheque is not sufficient evidence to prove a funder behind a class action over the $16 billion WestConnex tunnel can meet a costs order in a feud with the applicants, an appeals court has said.
Applicants in class actions against Hyundai and Kia have complained they are being left in the dark about whether a competing set of cases will amend their pleadings ahead of next month’s law firm carriage fight.
Class actions against Hyundai and Kia say they need a third round of document discovery, two years into the cases, but a judge has said the applicants should first detail the alleged engine defects at issue.