A ruling this week that kept intact a contingency fee rate of 27.5 per cent sought by Slater & Gordon to run a shareholder class action against G8 Education might encourage law firms to seek higher percentage payouts at the outset of group proceedings in Victoria.
Seven Network has told a court 13 women have come forward with complaints about television reporter Robert Ovadia since his dismissal in June.
Carnival PLC has denied that a passenger, whose husband contracted COVID-19 and had to be put on a ventilator, had a “horrible” time aboard the ill-fated Ruby Princess, in a class action’s appeal of a finding that she was only entitled to $4,000 in damages.
The managing director of legal recruiter Mahlab allegedly told an employee representing a female client who had received an employment offer from Bayer that she should not “worry about the gender pay gap”, according to a new lawsuit.
The Fair Work Commission will conduct a review into whether rules for working from home for clerical workers are fit for purpose and foreshadowed potential changes in other sectors.
A former PricewaterhouseCoopers senior associate has resolved her suit alleging she was sacked after complaining of bullying by a supervisor on the firm’s diversity team.
Class action settlement approval hearings are not a time for the court to second guess a law firm’s contingency fee as set down in a group costs order, a judge has found, but the question of proportionality is still key, and evidence of a firm’s return on investment and hourly fees may be relevant to the final decision.
A former human resources executive at Accenture is pushing back against an application by the consulting giant to suppress her employment case pending mediation, saying the cat is already out of the bag.
A judge has signed off on the first-ever settlement allowing a law firm to earn a contingency fee, approving a $12.8 million cut for Slater & Gordon in a shareholder class action against G8 Education.
A class action against Carnival over a COVID-19 outbreak aboard its Ruby Princess cruise ship has told the Full Court the lead applicant is entitled to damages “far in excess” of the $4,000 awarded by the trial judge for distress and disappointment.
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