Slater and Gordon is looking to significantly expand its class action against National Australia Bank over the sale of “worthless” credit card insurance to include personal loan customers who were sold allegedly unsuitable insurance policies.
A class action against the NSW government over a contractor who sold the personal details of 130 ambulance workers to personal injury law firms has flagged it may subpoena the founder and principal of Bannister Law, which purchased the confidential information.
Maurice Blackburn has hit back at a lawsuit by State Street Global Advisors over the law firm’s use of a replica of its Fearless Girl statue, denying it has infringed the asset manager’s intellectual property.
Shine Lawyers and Slater & Gordon on Tuesday denied media reports that the two law firms were in merger talks or that there were any imminent plans for a union.
Promises to pay out claims under vehicle warranties issued by a unit of car leasing giant McMillan Shakespeare were illusory because of a clause that gave the company “manifestly sweeping” discretion to reject any claim, a judge has ruled, in a victory for a class action over the allegedly worthless financial products.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission will seek more than $4 million in refunds plus penalties when it takes the troubled operator of the Jump! Swim School franchise and its top executive to court for alleged violations of the Australian Consumer Law.
A settlement has been reached in a class action brought on behalf of individuals and businesses that allegedly suffered loss or injury from a 2017 fire at the Coolaroo recycling plant in Victoria.
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has lost its market manipulation action against Whitebox Trading and its director Johannes Boshoff, with the court finding it was “practically impossible” that any of the trades at the centre of the case were made for an illegitimate purpose.
The Copyright Tribunal erred by including rights in a reissued Foxtel licence agreement that fell outside the authority of the licence grant holder, the Phonographic Performance Company of Australia, the Full Federal Court has found.
A second competition lawsuit brought against NSW Ports could be stayed or consolidated with a case launched by the competition regulator over an agreement to privatise Port Botany and Port Kembla, a court heard Tuesday.
For information on rights and reprints, contact subscriptions@lawyerly.com.au
