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CEO taken to court for allegedly paying nanny $2.33 an hour
Bartier Perry 2019-07-17 10:12 pm By Christine Caulfield Melbourne

The CEO of a property development company faces enforcement action by the Fair Work Ombudsman for allegedly paying his nanny $2.33 an hour for over 100 hours of work a week.

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Uber Eats makes restaurant contracts easier to swallow after ACCC scrutiny
Article 2019-07-17 3:53 pm By Christine Caulfield Melbourne

Uber Eats will overhaul its contracts with restaurants after an investigation by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission found the agreements unfairly favoured the food delivery service.

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Vodafone avoids fine after agreeing to refund customers over misleading billing
Competition & Consumer Protection 2019-07-16 2:14 pm By Christine Caulfield Melbourne

Telecommunications company Vodafone will refund thousands of customers misled by its direct carrier billing charges after an investigation by the consumer watchdog that saw Telstra and Optus fined $10 million for similar conduct.

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Judge ‘troubled’ by bid to extend class closure order in UGL shareholder action
Article 2019-07-15 10:26 pm By Christine Caulfield Melbourne

A judge overseeing a class action against engineering company UGL has agreed to extend a class closure order to give the parties a second chance to resolve the case in mediation, but not without expressing concerns that the order did not have the intended effect of encouraging settlement at the first sit-down.

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Adani defeats appeal in native title challenge to Queensland coal mine
Appeals 2019-07-12 10:30 pm By Christine Caulfield Melbourne

A group of Indigenous Australians opposed to Adani’s Carmichael coal mine in Queensland has lost an appeal of a ruling dismissing a native title case against the $16 billion development.

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Allergan faces potential class action over breast implants linked to rare cancer
Class Actions 2019-07-12 10:07 pm By Christine Caulfield Melbourne

Slater & Gordon is probing a possible class action against Allergan Australia on behalf of women who developed a rare form of lymphoma linked to the company’s textured breast implants.

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Judge slammed by Full Federal Court for ‘egregious departure’ from role
Appeals 2019-07-08 10:44 pm By Christine Caulfield Melbourne

The Full Federal Court has ordered a retrial in a landmark Fair Work Ombudsman case that saw the owner of a Cairns tour company sentenced to 12 months’ jail, criticizing the sentencing judge for being “sarcastic, disparaging and dismissive” of the tour operator’s evidence.

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Judge reserves AMP class action loser costs after Phi Finney McDonald sinks 1,345 hours
Alec Leopold 2019-07-04 3:45 pm By Christine Caulfield Sydney

Boutique class actions law firm Phi Finney McDonald has won its bid to reserve costs incurred before its case was permanently stayed in the AMP shareholder class action beauty contest, after the firm racked up at least 1,345 hours in “sunk costs”.

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In latest AMP class actions, judge nudges parties away from beauty parade
AMP 2019-07-03 3:41 pm By Christine Caulfield Melbourne

A judge overseeing competing consumer class actions against AMP over superannuation fees said he would be “reluctant” to hold a contest between the two cases, as the applicants in the rival proceedings tell the court they are in talks about possible consolidation.

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Slater & Gordon hits back at ex-lawyer’s claims over allegedly unethical funding referral scheme
Arnold Bloch Leibler 2019-06-28 11:21 pm By Christine Caulfield Melbourne

Slater & Gordon has struck back against allegations by a former senior solicitor that he was fired after making complaints about the law firm’s arrangement with a third-party funder for personal injury clients, denying any unethical practices and arguing the lawyer’s termination was part of a cost-cutting restructure.

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