One of two law firms running competing class actions against Coles and Woolworths over alleged illusory discounts has bowed out, leaving its rival to pursue the cases for consumers.
Former franchisees involved in a class action against RAMS are seeking to intervene in ASIC civil penalty proceedings against the defunct Westpac subsidiary.
Another failed class action is headed to the Full Court, with a case against ex-CBA unit Count Financial appealing a ruling that found advisors did not breach their duty to act in their clients’ best interest.
A judge has approved a bid to discontinue a class action against Apple over updates that allegedly “throttled” the performance of iPhones, after the lawyers running the case failed to secure litigation funding.
The common practice of splitting hearings on questions of liability and penalty may become “completely untenable” when there are credit issues, if the High Court upholds a recent recusal decision, a judge has said.
The University of Newcastle has been hit with a class action alleging students were misled into studying an engineering degree that lacked professional accreditation and left them unable to apply for employment.
General Motors has moved to strike-out a class action over allegedly faulty transmission systems in Holden cars, arguing the plaintiff needs to plead the alleged design flaw with specificity, not just by reference to symptoms.
The ACT government is pushing for an initial trial dealing with “gateway questions” in a class action over alleged forced relocations of public housing tenants, after it lost a bid to summarily dismiss the case.
Entities linked to the late solicitor Mark Elliott are set to pay $10 million to settle claims by Banksia class action members, despite a related company owning $70 million on trust, a court has heard.
A judge has approved a $43 million settlement in a class action action alleging Noumi misled investors about its inventory, including a 22 per cent group costs order to be split between the two law firms that ran the case.