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A judge has refused to recuse herself from hearing disciplinary proceedings brought against a barrister over complaints that she used “judicially inappropriate words” at an interlocutory hearing.
Astora’s sudden fall into bankruptcy amid pelvic mesh class action ‘troubling’, judge says
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A judge has stayed a class action on behalf of 6,000 women allegedly injured by defective pelvic mesh devices after Astora Women’s Health filed for bankruptcy in the United States, but questioned how the company had suddenly come to have no assets.
ANZ cops $25M penalty for short-changing half a million Breakfree customers
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A judge has hit ANZ with a $25 million penalty in a case by the corporate regulator that alleged the bank short-changed hundreds of thousands of customers to the tune of $200 million.
ASIC appeals loss in conflicted remuneration case against CBA
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The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has filed an appeal after a judge dismissed its case alleging the Commonwealth Bank of Australia accepted conflicted remuneration through the sale of its Essential Super product, finding it was “misconceived”.
Crane maker NQCranes agrees to $1M penalty in ACCC’s cartel case
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Queensland crane company NQCranes has agreed to pay a $1 million penalty in the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s case alleging it engaged in a conspiracy with a multinational rival to divide the Brisbane and Newcastle markets.
Firm running class action against Toyota gets boost from US plaintiffs firm
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A law firm running a class action alleging Toyota unit Hino cheated on emissions tests has teamed up with a top US firm running parallel proceedings against the car maker.
4 million Medibank customers affected by data breach
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Medibank’s woes worsened Wednesday as the insurer revealed data for all 4 million of its current and former customers had been accessed during a cyberattack after initially reporting no customer data had been exposed.
Bayer needs ‘thoughts and prayers’ to make out privilege claim in class action, court told
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A class action against Bayer over its allegedly defective Essure contraceptive devices has admonished the drug manufacturer’s bid to shield emails considered privileged in similar US litigation, arguing “thoughts and prayers” are needed to sustain the claim.
$27M penalty for ‘extensive and systematic’ failures by CBA units
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Commonwealth Bank units CommSec and Australian Investments Exchange have been ordered to pay more than $27 million for “serious and unacceptable” system failures that led to excessive fee charges for customers.
Albanese budget invests $360M in anti-corruption commission, First Nations legal aid
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A historic $99 million package has been committed for legal programs for First Nations people in the Albanese government’s inaugural budget, which also earmarks $263 million to establish a national anti-corruption commission and scope out a federal judicial commission.