A judge has rejected a motion by the NSW government and 15 local health districts to shut down a class action by the relatives of overseas patients who were forced to serve as guarantors and hit with hospital bills worth tens of thousands of dollars.
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission made global trading firm Select Vantage “vanish overnight” from the Australian market using slanderous statements based on a lack of evidence, the NSW Supreme Court has heard.
Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu is facing claims by the lead applicants in two class actions against failed retail giant Dick Smith alleging its poor accounting practices contributed to the retailer’s collapse.
Ex-Manpower Services general manager Jamie Butterworth is suing the multinational recruitment company, alleging he was unlawfully terminated for complaining about the performance of the company’s Experis brand.
Wealth manager IOOF is facing a shareholder class action alleging it failed to tell investors that misconduct aired at the Banking Royal Commission would put it in the crosshairs of Australia’s financial regulator.
Fairfax Media is challenging a ruling ordering it to pay $280,000 in damages to Chau Chak Wing for an allegedly defamatory article that appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald linking the wealthy Chinese-Australian businessman to an international bribery scandal.
A proposed 90-day standstill that gives law firms time to file competing class actions without rushing to court has garnered support from multiple Federal Court judges, and could be adopted as part of new protocols being considered, one judge said Friday.
Viva Energy has been convicted and fined $100,000 for polluting Sydney Harbour after a marine fuel oil spill from a corroded pipe at the company’s Gore Bay terminal on New Year’s Eve three years ago.
The Construction, Forestry, Maritime, Mining and Energy Union has appealed a ruling granting $1 million to the liquidators of failure labour hire company One Key Workforce that the union claimed was owed to its members.
A court has ordered internet provider Activ8me to pay $250,000 in penalties for making false and misleading claims about the performance of its internet services, the consumer watchdog said Friday.
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