Sydney homeowners bringing a class action over homes they claim are sinking into the ground won’t be able to recoup alleged losses from the engineering company that certified the lots for development.
Cruise operator Scenic Tours is appealing a courtroom loss that could see it owing $25 million in damages in a class action by travelers who were promised a “once in a lifetime cruise along the grand waterways of Europe” but were instead forced to take the bus from city to city due to heavy rain and high water levels.
The New South Wales government has pushed to consolidate a class action accusing it of failing to pay overtime hours to junior doctors with multiplying industrial actions filed by Australian Salaried Medical Officers’ Federation.
The applicants in a class action against The Cosmetic Institute and twelve doctors over allegedly “incompetent” breast augmentation surgery have won court approval to expand their case to allege misleading and deceptive conduct and breaches of the consumer guarantees in the Australian Consumer Law.
A judge has made a long-awaited award of damages to travellers who were promised a “once in a lifetime cruise along the grand waterways of Europe” but were instead forced to take the bus from city to city.
The federal government has argued it should not have to pay the “very high figure” former Royal Australian Navy sailors are seeking in compensation for a breached training contract that allegedly saw them denied a higher rate of pay.
The federal government has lost a bid to submit additional evidence ahead of an upcoming damages trial in a class action brought on behalf of 200 Navy marine technicians over a breached training contract.
NSW Health wants to amend its defence to an underpayments class action on behalf of 24,000 junior doctors, bringing claims that the lead applicant is barred from seeking compensation for group members under industrial relations law.
EY has reached an in-principle settlement in a case brought by Melbourne-based joint venture Shepparton Partners Collective alleging the consulting giant was negligent, but the firm copped a dressing down from a judge on Thursday for asking him to keep its motion to toss the case on ice.
A surgeon facing class action claims from breast implant patients of the defunct The Cosmetic Institute has won his legal battle against an insurer that denied coverage for his defence costs.