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Judge shoots down Advanta Seeds’ bid for names of signed class action members
Agriculture 2020-03-02 12:55 pm By Christine Caulfield Melbourne
Farmers in a class action against Advanta Seeds over allegedly contaminated sorghum have defeated a bid by the company to hand over a list of all group members who have signed funding agreements to join the case.
BP worker fired over Hitler parody video to be reinstated after win on appeal
Appeals 2020-02-28 4:50 pm By Miklos Bolza Sydney
A refinery worker sacked by BP over a parody Hitler video has won his job back after a Fair Work Commission appeals panel overturned a prior decision upholding his dismissal, finding that the clip he shared was not offensive or inappropriate.
ANZ and Westpac hit with junk insurance class actions
ANZ 2020-02-28 1:08 pm By Miklos Bolza Sydney
Slater and Gordon has expanded its Get Your Insurance Back campaign, launching class actions against ANZ and Westpac over allegedly worthless consumer credit insurance, just three months after it reached a $49.5 million settlement with NAB in a class action over similar insurance.
‘I never liked common fund orders anyway’: Judge gives thumbs up to High Court ruling
Alexander Edwards 2020-02-28 12:53 pm By Miklos Bolza Sydney
A  judge overseeing a shareholder class action against collapsed engineering group RCR Tomlinson has said goodbye to the common fund order in the case while welcoming last year's High Court decision preventing these orders from being made at the early stage in class actions.
ASIC wins unconscionable conduct case against OTC derivatives issuer AGM Markets
Angus Christophersen 2020-02-27 10:28 pm By Miklos Bolza Sydney
ASIC has notched up a win against derivative issuer AGM Markets and two of its authorised representatives, with a court finding they engaged in misleading, deceptive and unconscionable conduct that caused investor losses of over $30 million.
Combustible cladding class action gets makeover
Amelia Smith 2020-02-27 5:37 pm By Miklos Bolza Sydney
The lead applicant in a class action over allegedly combustible cladding has been ordered to immediately pay the defendants' costs that were thrown away by amended pleadings that bring a "substantially new case", over a year after the high-stakes case was filed.
Head of NSW Racing claims ABC story on racehorse slaughter defamed him
Bruce McClintock 2020-02-27 12:34 pm By Cat Fredenburgh Melbourne
The head of Racing NSW has hit the ABC with a defamation lawsuit over a '7:30' segment that revealed racehorses were being slaughtered in violation of industry rules.
Government reaches settlement in toxic foam class actions
Class Actions 2020-02-27 10:55 am By Cat Fredenburgh Melbourne
A settlement has been reached in three class action against the Commonwealth of Australia over the use of allegedly toxic firefighting foam at government military bases.
Deloitte partners can’t dodge production order after ‘outrageous’ removal of audit files, Full Court says
Alan Shearer 2020-02-27 10:00 am By Christine Caulfield Melbourne
Deloitte has lost its appeal of a ruling in a shareholder class action over the collapse of Hastie Group that compelled the production of audit files taken by a partner from the accounting giant’s litigation room, in a ruling that described the actions of the partner as “bordering on contempt” and slammed Deloitte for “cynically” exploiting the situation.
‘Cheeky’ and deceptively similar: Down N’ Out infringed In-N-Out Burger’s trade mark, judge says
Baker McKenzie 2020-02-26 7:11 pm By Miklos Bolza Sydney
An Australian burger chain launched as a tribute to the popular American burger franchise In-N-Out has lost a trade mark infringement lawsuit, with a judge finding its name choice was "deceptively similar" and "cheeky".