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Class action over COVID-19 jab mandate ‘legally misconceived’, judge says
Class Actions 2022-07-13 5:47 pm By Sam Matthews

A judge has dismissed a proceeding against the New South Wales government over a mandate requiring healthcare workers to be vaccinated against COVID-19, saying the applicant’s constitutional case was “legally misconceived and must be rejected.”

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Red Telecom hit with $450,000 penalty for failing to pay customers
ACMA 2022-07-13 3:30 pm By Sam Matthews

A judge has ordered a defunct telecommunications company to pay $450,000 in penalties for flouting orders requiring it to pay out over $63,000 to its customers.

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Bank of Queensland hit with first-ever penalty for Consumer Data Right breaches
ACCC 2022-07-13 2:11 pm By Sam Matthews

Bank of Queensland is the first bank to be caught for alleged breaches under the new Consumer Data Right scheme, paying a $133,200 penalty.

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Noumi fires back at Deloitte cross-claims in class action over $590M write-down
Accounting 2022-07-12 7:42 pm By Sam Matthews

In the latest round of finger-pointing in a consolidated shareholder class action against Noumi, formerly Freedom Foods, the food company has taken aim at Deloitte’s claims that it gave the accounting firm misleading information.

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Investment manager for Kahlbetzer family sacked after pregnancy announcement: lawsuit
Contracts 2022-07-12 4:41 pm By Sam Matthews

An investment consultant at Kahlbetzer family investment vehicle Twynam Investments has filed a lawsuit alleging she was sacked over the phone a month after telling the company she was planning for a baby.

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Claims pared in class action over sinking Sydney homes
Class Actions 2022-07-08 5:33 pm By Sam Matthews

Sydney homeowners bringing a class action over homes they claim are sinking into the ground won’t be able to recoup alleged losses from the engineering company that certified the lots for development.

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Fairfax to argue no ‘serious harm’ to synagogue head over ‘gossipy, mocking’ Age report
Defamation 2022-07-08 4:24 pm By Sam Matthews

Fairfax has foreshadowed a fight over whether former synagogue president and Victorian Liberal party treasurer David Mond suffered ‘serious harm’ as a result of articles published in The Age and Sydney Morning Herald accusing him of deciding to host a speech by a convicted spy.

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Readymix could be pulled into $300M case over ‘defective’ Lane Cove development
Allens 2022-07-07 4:19 pm By Sam Matthews

A judge has indicated that he may allow concrete supplier Readymix to be drawn into a five-year-old dispute over alleged defects in the construction of Sydney’s billion-dollar Lane Cove tunnel.

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Zurich rails against ‘exorbitant exercise’ of power in NZ apartment class action
Andrew Bell 2022-07-06 7:31 pm By Sam Matthews

Irish insurer Zurich Insurance has appealed a judge’s finding that a class action filed against it in the NSW Supreme Court over a defective New Zealand apartment block could go ahead, arguing the finding was the result of federal overreach.

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DLA Piper brought on to lead case over alleged theft of mining invention
Andrew Fox 2022-07-05 6:23 pm By Sam Matthews

Western Australian energy company UON has won a bid to file amended claims in two Federal Court proceedings over a mining invention it says was stolen by a rival, after DLA Piper took over the cases from local firm Bennett + Co.

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