A Federal Court judge has criticised Volkswagen for being “uncooperative” in refusing to tell the court who authorised the defeat device at the heart of the auto giant’s diesel emissions cheating scandal.
Lawyers wants to expand the class action brought against the Ford Motor Company of Australia over allegedly defective Powershift transmissions, seeking court approval to increase the class size and bring new unconscionable conduct claims.
Six major car companies indicated Tuesday they were open to a quick settlement of class actions brought on behalf of potentially hundreds of thousands of Australian drivers whose cars were fitted with defective and deadly Takata airbags.
A judge has refused a bid by two Australian companies to shut down a long-running wrongful death case in the US brought by the families of 15 people killed in an air crash near the Lockhart River in North Queensland in May 2005.
Transport for NSW can appeal a decision by the state’s Civil and Administrative Tribunal that found collection of passengers’ travel history data through the Opal card system breached privacy laws.
The ACCC will announce its decision on TransUrban’s proposed bid for a majority stake in the $16.8 billion WestConnex highway project a week early, in light of the New South Wales Government’s timetable for reviewing bids.
Australian luxury watch retailer Watches of Switzerland has lost a bid to strike out Transport for NSW’s defences in a case seeking damages for the ongoing construction of the light rail project in Sydney’s CBD.
A ruling that valued land snatched by the New South Wales government to make way for the massive WestConnex highway at $23 million is invalid because of a Commissioner’s involvement in adjudicating the matter, an appeals court has found.
The judge overseeing the competition lawsuit brought by the ACCC over Aurizon’s proposed sale of its Queensland intermodal business to Pacific National has denied the regulator’s bid for an injunction against Pacific, saying it amounted to micro-managing that could discourage “normal competitive behaviour”.
Chain logistics company Brambles is facing a second class action alleging it breached its continuous disclosure obligations by failing to revise its overly rosy 2017 financial forecast on several occasions.