A judge has ordered the lead applicant in a shareholder class action against G8 Education to disclose a previously redacted clause of a costs agreement to the childcare centre operator, saying he failed to show how supplying the information would give G8 a tactical advantage in the case.
Volkswagen has lost its challenge to a landmark $125 million Dieselgate penalty handed down by a judge who lambasted a $75 million fine proposed by the ACCC as “manifestly inadequate”, in what ACCC chair Rod Sims told Lawyerly was a “turning point” for the regulator to push for higher fines.
A judge has ordered ASIC to flesh out its case accusing the Retail Employees Superannuation of misleading members about their ability to move their super out of the REST Trust, given the “significant” allegations that a deliberate system was behind the superannuation trustee’s alleged misconduct.
Two Commonwealth Bank of Australia subsidiaries have denied that they owed fiduciary duties to group members in a class action over allegedly excessive insurance premiums pushed onto customers because of commissions and other benefits to financial advisors.
Insurer AIG Australia will have to pay collapsed diary processing firm Murray Goulburn at least $8.85 million after a court ruled it was liable to cover some of the costs of a $42 million class action settlement reached with irate investors last year.
A patent battle between Juno Pharmaceuticals and Bristol-Myers Squibb over the blockbuster drug Revlimid has seen both sides suffer early losses, with a judge dismissing strike out and summary dismissal applications by the drug makers.
The High Court will weigh in on a dispute between the Port of Newcastle and mining giant Glencore over access charges to shipping channels used to export coal from the Hunter Valley.
More than half of the $37.75 million settlement reached in a shareholder class action against aged care provider Estia Health will be left for distribution to group members if the settlement is approved at an upcoming hearing.
Law firm Maurice Blackburn has successfully defended a consumer law and intellectual property lawsuit brought over its use of a replica of the famous Fearless Girl statue by US financial services giant State Street Global Advisors.
Murray Goulburn insurer AIG Australia says it should not have to pay 20 per cent of a $42 million class action settlement reached by the dairy cooperative, arguing on Tuesday that the class action claims failed to satisfy the definition of a “securities claim” in its insurance policy.