Almost 7,000 taxi drivers who did not sign up to two class actions against Uber by the deadline are asking the court for a cut of a $272 million settlement, with a judge questioning what she “unleashed” when sending out the notice of settlement.
X Corp claims it is not answerable to a compliance notice the eSafety Commissioner issued to Twitter concerning its monitoring of child sexual abuse on its platform, telling the court there’s a “lively dispute” about the effect of the company’s acquisition by Elon Musk.
Uber has successfully challenged five years of payroll tax totalling more than $81 million, with a judge finding that payments made to drivers should not be taxed as wages as Uber only acts as a “payment collection agent” between rider and driver.
Waste company Aussie Skips and its boss have binned their appeal of a multimillion dollar penalty for a price-fixing plot with rival Bingo Industries.
P&O Cruises has resolved a group of personal injury cases by passengers who were seriously hurt in a bus collision in Vanuatu in 2016.
The federal government has agreed to pay up to $202 million to settle a class action on behalf of First Nations people in the Northern Territory who were allegedly denied wages owed for work performed over a nearly 40-year period.
Domino’s has been stung with shareholder class action accusing the pizza giant of misleading the market about its expected performance in Japan.
A Sydney law firm has filed a class action accusing private equity-owned medical device maker Exactech of supplying faulty joint implants that were subject to deterioration due to a packaging defect, caused serious medical complications in patients.
Westpac’s head of audit and risk has taken her employer to court, claiming the bank shut down her compliance concerns about its shuttered mortgage broking subsidiary RAMS and stigmatised her as a “troublemaker” after she made repeated inquiries into the matter.
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