Uber has been with a class action on behalf of more than 6,000 drivers and license owners alleging the ride-sharing giant caused them harm by operating illegally in four states across Australia.
An appeals court has handed a win to the Fair Work Ombudsman in its battle for a multimillion dollar penalty against the CFMEU for coordinated strikes at two Hutchison Ports shipping terminals, finding a judge’s fine of just $38,000 did not cut it.
AMP is set to be the next target of a $1 billion class action blitz by Slater & Gordon on behalf of superannuation members, facing a case on behalf of over half a million Australians allegedly gouged by excessive fees on their AMP superannuation accounts.
Law firm Maurice Blackburn has fired its opening salvo in a high-stakes appeal of a judge’s decision rejecting its class action against BHP over the Brazilian dam failure, saying the ruling deprived group members of pocketing higher net returns on any recovery and of choosing a more experienced firm to run the case for them.
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission will gets a chance on Monday to prove its claims that Westpac breached responsible lending laws by providing unsuitable home loans when the two face off in a high-stakes trial following the court’s rejection of what would have been a record $35 million penalty for breaching the country’s lending laws.
A judge has signed off on the lead applicants’ bid to expand the current group definition in a class action against Johnson & Johnson unit Ethicon over allegedly defective vaginal mesh products, saying there was “no reason in logic” why the request should be denied.
Private training company Ashley Services and auditors Deloitte and Grant Thornton will pay a combined $14.6 million to settle a shareholder class action, and IMF Bentham says it may bank $7.2 million for funding the litigation.
Pay TV giant Foxtel has lost an appeal of an IP Australia decision refusing to revoke a trade mark by telco China Unicom after a failure of the trade mark office’s online filing system meant its law firm, Allens, missed the deadline for opposing the mark.
Creditors of defunct stockbroker Halifax Investment may soon get emails from the company’s liquidators, after a judge signed off on their request to keep creditors abreast of developments in the defunct’s trading platform’s liquidation proceedings electronically.
The defamation case of sacked CEO of Sydney’s City of Parramatta Council against Fairfax Media is “susceptible to settlement”, a judge said Wedneday as he flagged the prospect of sending the case to mediation for a second time.