The Australia and New Zealand Banking Group told the court on Tuesday that it urgently needs a statement of facts, during the first hearing in the highly anticipated criminal cartel case against three investment banks.
The lawyers leading a class action seeking damages from electrical distributor Endeavour Energy over the 2013 Mt Victoria bushfires have made a bid to amend the pleadings as the six-week kicked off Monday in the NSW Supreme Court.
A Federal Court judge that threw out a consumer class action against MyBudget has denied the budget management company’s bid for costs, finding the case was brought in the public interest.
HarperCollins has lost its bid for summary dismissal of a defamation lawsuit brought against it by two psychiatrists at the centre of the deep sleep therapy scandal that rocked the medical world in the 1960s and 70s.
Macmahon Holdings has agreed to pay $6.7 million to settle a shareholder class action alleging the mining company failed to provide adequate disclosures about the impact delays on a project for Rio Tinto in the Pilbara would have on its profitability.
Mobile garbage bin manufacturer Mastec Australia can access documents from a group of city councils and waste management firms to calculate damage it suffered from rival Trident Plastics unlawful copying of its wheelie bin design.
The funder underwriting a class action against Westpac will take a 25 percent cut of the net — not gross — recovery sum to secure a judge’s approval of a common fund order in the case.
A Melbourne computer retailer that plans to appeal a $2.8 million fine for allegedly violating Microsoft’s Windows 7 IP has won a stay of the court’s order, with a judge finding the court’s delay in publishing reasons for judgment created an “unsatisfactory state of affairs”.
A landmark ruling that transferred four competing federal class actions against AMP to state court will stand, with the law firms behind the cases opting out of a fight in the High Court.
Senator David Leyonhjelm wants the Federal Court to toss a defamation lawsuit filed by Senator Sarah Hanson-Young, saying the court is barred from hearing the case due to parliamentary privilege