The Commonwealth Bank of Australia has hit back at a $45 million lawsuit alleging it failed to provide thousands of employees with paid rest breaks for at least six years, saying it had no responsibility to schedule or roster the breaks.
Deloitte and Noumi, formerly known as Freedom Foods, have pointed the finger at one another in a consolidated shareholder class action, with the accounting giant saying the food company made misleading representations in its financial reports and should be on the hook for its costs in defending the lawsuit.
Law firms accused of “fishing for a case” in a consolidated shareholder class action against Treasury Wine Estates have won access to key financial information in reports to the company’s board, with a registrar finding the material was relevant to the case.
Maurice Blackburn and Slater & Gordon are “fishing for a case” against Treasury Wine Estates, a court has heard during a discovery fight in a consolidated shareholder class action against the Penfolds wine maker.
Damages owed to a millionaire couple by JD Group over a “deliberately misleading” rendering of a $9.58 million apartment in South Yarra, Melbourne will be put on ice pending the outcome of the property developer’s appeal.
Property developer JD Group will have to pay damages to a Melbourne couple after a judge found the company’s artistic renderings of a $9.58 million South Yarra apartment were “deliberately misleading”.
A judge overseeing a joint class action against Freedom Foods and Deloitte wants to break a bad habit among litigators of attaching to affidavits reams of correspondence between solicitors, and she has a message for legal practitioners — the court is not interested in what lawyers say to each other.
A class action settlement with Woolworths which “troubled” a Federal Court judge has been abandoned, with the lead applicants resuming their bid to intervene in a parallel proceeding brought by the Fair Work Ombudsman against the supermarket giant.
Commonwealth Bank has won more time to examine the particular work arrangements in 24 individual branches, as it fights allegations of systemic failures to provide thousands of employees with paid rest breaks since 2014.
The Commonwealth Bank of Australia wants more details about the Finance Sector Union’s allegations that it failed to provide thousands of employees with paid rest breaks for at least six years.