A judge has signed off on a group costs order in a shareholder class action against food company Noumi and auditor Deloitte guaranteeing group members a return of at least 78 per cent, but noted the law firms’ cut may need to be reviewed to avoid a “disproportionate return”.
Twenty-three barristers have joined the ranks of senior counsel in Victoria, including lawyers who have helped secure hundreds of millions of dollars in class action settlements.
Melbourne restaurant College Dropout Burgers has been hit with a lawsuit by Kanye West for allegedly using the controversial rapper’s name and likeness without permission.
The Supreme Court of Victoria has been called out in a report into sexually inappropriate behavior and bullying by judges as an “extremely hierarchical” workplace that has all the risk factors for harassment.
A judge has dismissed the majority of Microsoft’s six-year-old intellectual property suit against a Melbourne computer retailer over its Windows 7 software, which previously netted the Silicon Valley giant a $2.8 million payout from Judge Sandy Street that was slammed as a “regrettable” judicial failure.
The University of Melbourne has hit back at the Fair Work Ombudsman’s allegations that it took adverse action against two casual academics to prevent them from claiming payment for extra hours worked, but admitted a supervisor penned an email referring to one of them as a “self-entitled Y-genner”.
A judge has called off a pre-trial hearing to determine whether the new serious harm element in Australia’s defamation laws is satisfied in a case brought by a weight lifting coach, citing an “unfortunate turn of events”.
A law firm whose principal has been barred from practicing has been restrained from obstructing a Thomson Geer partner appointed to manage it.
A class action has been filed targeting Victoria Police’s use of capsicum spray and excessive force against protestors at the International Mining and Resources Conference in Melbourne three years ago.
The Fair Work Ombudsman has taken the University of Melbourne to court, alleging it took adverse action against two casual academics to prevent them from claiming payment for work performed outside of their contracted hours.