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Paltry pay day for IPO Wealth investors as $5.6M class action settlement approved
Class Actions 2022-10-12 11:06 am By Sam Matthews

Investors in Mayfair Group’s collapsed IPO Wealth Fund have clawed back only a fraction of their alleged $67 million losses after a judge approved a settlement in a class action alleging the fund’s trustee misled unit holders.

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Teleco contractor BSA can’t get costs for winning class action side spat
Article 2022-10-10 11:33 pm By Christine Caulfield

Teleco contractor BSA, which resolved a class action by its workforce for $20 million, won’t be recouping the costs of legal action to exclude a $13 million capital raising from the settlement.

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‘Blood out of a stone’: Class action settlement no big pay day for IPO Wealth investors
Class Actions 2022-10-04 2:22 pm By Sam Matthews

Investors in Mayfair Group’s collapsed IPO Wealth Fund are set to recoup only a fraction of their alleged $67 million losses in a best-case settlement of a class action alleging the fund’s trustee misled unit holders.

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Mercedes can’t shield board minutes in $650M dealer lawsuit
Automotive 2022-08-17 1:04 am By Cindy Cameronne

Car dealers bringing a $650 million lawsuit against Mercedes over its decision to move to a fixed-price agency model have won access to board meeting minutes and related correspondence sent to the company’s top brass.

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Mercedes ‘laid open’ its legal advice in $650M dealer lawsuit, court told
Automotive 2022-08-10 10:02 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Car dealers bringing a $650 million lawsuit against Mercedes over its decision to move to a fixed-price agency model are seeking to access legal advice given to the car manufacturer on non-renewal notices at the heart of the case.

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‘Tear it up’: Judge censures silk in $650M Mercedes-Benz dealer lawsuit
Automotive 2022-08-08 11:31 pm By Cindy Cameronne

A court has directed a senior barrister acting in a $650 million lawsuit against Mercedes-Benz to “tear up” a letter his instructing solicitors sent concerning the judge’s ownership of a Mercedes vehicle, and said he was “surprised” the counsel signed off on it.

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Mercedes-Benz can’t access chats with Labor senator in $650M dealer suit
Automotive 2022-08-04 11:29 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Mercedes can’t access communications between Australia’s peak body for car dealers and a Labor senator to use in its defence of a $650 million lawsuit over its decision to move to a fixed-price agency model.

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Mercedes bullied car dealers, called them ‘baby piglets’, court told
Automotive 2022-08-03 11:40 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Officials at the Mercedes-Benz Australia head office referred to car dealers as “baby piglets” in internal communications and threatened and bullied the retailers, a trial court has been told in a $650 million lawsuit over the car maker’s decision to move to a fixed-price agency model.

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Slater & Gordon wins beauty parade, group costs order in Beach Energy class action
Alistair Pound 2022-08-01 2:28 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Slater & Gordon has defeated Shine Lawyers in a contest to run a shareholder class action against Beach Energy, with a judge finding Shine’s tiered contingency fee arrangement was “mere window dressing”.

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BSA’s $20M class action settlement wins court approval
Class Actions 2022-07-26 11:49 pm By Cindy Cameronne

A judge has approved a $20 million settlement in a sham contracting class action accusing telco contractor BSA Limited of misclassifying its workforce of technicians as independent contractors.

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