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The judge overseeing a class action against car maker Ford over its allegedly defective PowerShift transmission has shot down the applicant's request for additional discovery, saying that after multiple delays in the case "the well has run dry".
A prominent Queensland family has won almost $3.7 million in damages after a court found the Nine Network was "recklessly indifferent" to the truth of a 60 Minutes' report alleging the collapse of a wall at the family's quarry was to blame for floods that killed 12 people.
A judge has consolidated competing shareholder class actions against builder Lendlease brought by rival plaintiffs law firms, but has rejected the firms' bid to jointly run the litigation and says one of them must go.
HWL Ebsworth claims it was justified in firing a former partner for being dishonest about why he printed out confidential material, as the firm challenges a $450,000 unfair dismissal judgment.
Shareholders have appealed a ruling that found a "serious problem" with market-based causation and dismissed three cases against the liquidator of failed global financial services firm Babcock & Brown.
Johnson & Johnson did not adequately warn of the risks of its pelvic mesh implants and is liable to pay damages to thousands of Australian women who suffered severe injuries from the devices, a judge has ruled in a long awaited decision in a class action launched more than seven years ago.
Shareholders of collapsed steel and mining giant Arrium have won the OK to question a one-time director over possible class action claims that former officers misled the market and that auditor KPMG was negligent in preparing a healthy financial report just two years before the company went under.
An educational service provider owned by national bookstore chain Dymocks has been sued for "flagrant" trade mark infringement by a tech-focused private equity fund.
The National Australia Bank and insurer MLC have agreed to pay $49.5 million to settle a class action over allegedly worthless credit card insurance.
Gilbert + Tobin is seeking to shut down a lawsuit brought by a firm owned by Sydney business owners Charif and Tarek Kazal after the Federal Court gave the company one last chance to fix what a judge called the "simply incomprehensible" pleadings.