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The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has taken Australia’s largest super fund to court over alleged delays in processing almost 7,000 death benefit claims, which the fund has blamed on COVID-19.
Law firms ask court to bless $42.5M cut of $170M Allianz class action settlement
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The Supreme Court of Victoria has been urged not to meddle with a 25 per cent group costs order in a junk insurance class action that settled for $170 million, in what would be the court’s second blessing of a law firm contingency fee.
Ex-Super Retail lawyer can’t appeal suppression order for public defence
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A judge has rejected claims from Super Retail Group’s former top lawyer that suppression orders over details of an alleged settlement should be lifted so she can respond to the company’s “defamatory” version of events in the media, calling her claims “a bare assertion”.
J&J slams class action over cold and flu medications
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Johnson & Johnson has slammed a class action over allegedly ineffective cold and flu medications, telling a judge it has “real concerns” with how the case has been framed.
Developer’s challenge to NSW Ports decision an abuse of process, court told
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Mayfield Development is barred from bringing claims already traversed in a competition case by the ACCC that was thrown out by a court, NSW Ports has told an appeals court.
‘Monumental waste of time’: Judge won’t hear summary dismissal bid in postgrads class action
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A judge is not ready to hear a bid to summarily dismiss a “long and tortured” case alleging University of Sydney postgraduate students were underpaid, calling it a “monumental waste of time”.
In landmark win for native title rights, High Court finds acquisition of property must be on ‘just terms’
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Save (0) Please login to bookmark Close Username or Email Address Password Remember Me In a landmark ruling, the High Court has held the federal government must compensate Indigenous people in north-east Arnhem Land for mining operations, finding the government cannot escape its constitutional obligation to acquire property on ‘just terms’. The Commonwealth challenged a…
Lady Fairfax trust can’t escape surcharge land tax, court finds
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A judge has found two major Sydney residential developments that are part of the estate of the late Lady Mary Fairfax cannot dodge surcharge land tax.
Holding Redlich may be on hook for ‘extraordinary’ costs in property spat
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Law firm Holding Redlich faces a possible adverse costs order for racking up what a judge said were “out of hand” fees following the settlement of a property dispute.
Mirvac landscaper subject to ‘tirade of abuse’ after questioning spending, suit claims
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A former Mirvac landscaper has sued the property developer alleging he was made redundant and copped a “tirade of abuse” after inquiring into overspending and reporting that lights could not be put on a Christmas tree due to safety concerns.