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Aussie Skips Recycling and Aussie Skips Bin Services have been charged with two criminal cartel offences over alleged price fixing for demolition waste services in Sydney.
Shine stuck running Blue Sky, EY class action with rival firm
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A law firm has lost its bid to challenge a court order that it join forces with a competing firm in an investor class action against Blue Sky Alternative Investments and auditor EY.
Group members guaranteed 72.5% cut in Crown Resorts class action
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A judge has approved a group costs order with a tiered contingency fee that will guarantee group members at least 72.5 per cent of any returns in a shareholder class action accusing Crown Resorts of lax anti-money laundering compliance over a six-year period.
Discrimination class action filed against NT public housing body
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The Northern Territory public housing authority has been hit with a class action alleging it failed to maintain public housing to a habitable standard in remote Aboriginal communities.
Westpac settles superannuation class action for $30M
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Westpac has agreed to pay $29.95 million to settle a class action alleging subsidiaries BT Funds Management Limited and Westpac Life Insurance Services Limited charged customers excessive superannuation fees between 2007 and 2019.
Sunwater insurer doesn’t owe coverage for $440M Queensland floods class action
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Queensland government-owned water services provider Sunwater has lost a bid to overturn a judgment letting insurer Liberty Mutual Insurance off the hook for its share of a $440 million settlement in the Queensland floods class action.
Albanese government to abolish ‘irreversibly damaged’ AAT
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The Albanese government has vowed to abolish and replace the Administrative Appeals Tribunal, saying it has been “fatally compromised” by the former government which allegedly appointed political allies who had no expertise.
HarperCollins can make ‘bad reputation’ claims in deep sleep defamation case
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A psychiatrist that sued HarperCollins for defamation over a book on the use of deep sleep therapy at the Chelmsford Private Hospital in the 1970s has lost his bid to disallow the publisher’s claim that any damage he suffered was mitigated by his bad reputation.
Twigg family fights knockout bid by Pitcher Partners
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Relatives of race car driver Max Twigg are fighting Pitcher Partners’ bid to have a $127 million lawsuit dismissed as an abuse of process, rejecting the accounting firm’s argument that the proceedings were deliberately delayed for strategic reasons.
ASIC brings action against Firstmac over alleged DDO breaches
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In only the second case of its kind, ASIC has taken non-bank lender Firstmac to court over alleged breaches of design and distribution obligations in relation to its High Livez managed investment scheme.