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A judge has thrown out an unlawful dismissal case brought by former HWL Ebsworth special counsel against the firm, describing his arguments as “trivial” and “wholly unrealistic”.
Counsel for WorleyParsons has denied the engineering firm's attempt to end a shareholder class action mid-trial would be the start of a "brave new world" of no-case bids in representative proceedings, saying this was a rare instance of a case with "no chance of success".
Insurance broker Jardine Lloyd Thompson is facing a second class action on behalf of local councils claiming it charged inflated premiums.
The Full Federal Court has shot down a challenge to a ruling denying horse vaccine maker Zoetis' application for security for costs in an unfunded class action brought on behalf of horse owners alleging the company failed to warn about the potential side effects of the Hendra virus vaccine.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has taken private health insurer Medibank to court for falsely telling consumers they were not eligible for certain coverage under their insurance policies, with over 800 policy holders denied coverage for joint investigation or reconstruction procedures.
Radio Rentals and its insurer, AIG, have reached a $29 million settlement in a consumer class action alleging the company pushed misleading 'Rent, Try, $1 Buy' leases onto vulnerable customers.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has warned it could take enforcement action if its finds banks are misleading customers about foreign exchanges fees and warned banks' use of their compliance obligations to deny banking services to their non-bank competitors could constrain competition in the market for foreign exchange services.
A recent Federal Court decision means cooperation between courts in different international jurisdictions, which would once have been regarded as entirely novel, may now be a welcome option for liquidators to achieve a more efficient liquidation of insolvent corporate groups, writes K&L Gates' Jason Opperman, Katherine Smith and Catherine Crawford.
A consumer class action against Radio Rentals over its 'Rent, Try, $1 Buy' scheme is "very close" to settling, a court heard Monday, with just a few more days required to negotiate a final agreement.
Gaming giant Aristocrat Technologies told a court that if its Lightning Link slot machine was a physical game there would be no doubt about its patentability, as trial kicked off Monday in another case that is pushing back on IP Australia's stance on the patentability of computer-implemented inventions.