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A challenge to a compensation determination by a group member in a class action against Johnson & Johnson unit DePuy may involve novel questions for the Full Court on the role of scheme administrators, a judge has said.
In this 33rd year of class actions, three significant milestones have been achieved by Australia's class action regimes, writes expert Professor Vince Morabito.
A judge has blocked the director of Taylors Business from representing the company in a consumer class action, finding he will not be of any assistance to the court.
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Abacus Storage Kings will open its books for a consortium of Ki Corporation and New York Stock Exchange-listed Public Storage, which lobbed a $2.2 billion takeover offer last week.
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Whitehaven Coal, which is locked in a fight with two conservation groups over the Winchester South coal mine in Queensland, has fought off an application for disclosure of internal climate risk documents created by a related entity.
A racial discrimination class action against the Northern Territory government and its police commissioner could "call into question" policing across the territory, a judge has said.
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Atlantic Nickel has lost a challenge to further amendments to a case by failed suitor Mining Services International that alleges it lost the opportunity to purchase a Brazilian mine now valued at over $1 billion.
Arnold Bloch Leibler and a litigation partner at the law firm are among defendants named in a new case for their representation of the mastermind behind the scandal-ridden Banksia Securities class action.
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A former director of three construction companies that collapsed with debts of almost $94 million has been banned by the corporate watchdog from managing corporations for five years.
The Finance Sector Union has taken Commonwealth Bank to the Fair Work Commission over the alleged "sham redundancy” of over 100 positions it says are being offshored to India in breach of an enterprise agreement.