A contradictor appointed in two pelvic mesh class actions against Johnson & Johnson has blasted a $300 million settlement, calling it “massively” short of what is owed to group members, after a judge preliminarily found the sum was not fair and reasonable.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has won its appeal against Employsure over alleged misleading Google advertisements, with the Full Federal Court upping the penalty against the specialist workplace relations consultancy from $1 million to $3 million.
A PricewaterhouseCoopers partner has hit back at a lawsuit over her alleged involvement in a $3.3 million scheme to defraud her husband’s employer, saying she believed payments into her account were made under a personal loan brokered by her husband from a “wealthy friend” in China.
A judge has found Downer Energy was responsible for a costly shutdown at a NSW power plant caused by a “practically unthinkable” defect.
Optus has won more time to bring a counterclaim in a $100 million lawsuit by mobile retailer TeleChoice alleging it was misled when the telecommunications giant claimed it would earn the same revenue as in an agreement that was being negotiated with Telstra.
Clayton Utz has snagged an energy regulatory expert who has worked as general counsel at AusNet and was formerly a partner at Herbert Smith Freehills to join its Melbourne corporate practice.
An appeals court has dismissed an appeal from two contractors who worked on Chevron’s Gorgon gas field project who allege they were underpaid over $130 million by the energy giant.
Hancock Prospecting has lost a bid to shut down court cases brought by fellow mining giants Wright Prospecting and DFD Rhodes until the outcome of a family arbitration, after a judge found the company’s own forensic choices made the risk of inconsistent decisions inevitable.
Class action settlement sums reached new highs last year, with the ten largest agreements totalling almost $1 billion, almost half of which was secured by one plaintiff law firm.
The Victoria Supreme Court has dismissed a bid to quash the Environment Protection Authority’s decision to renew the mining licences of the state’s three remaining coal power stations, in a test case for the state’s Climate Change Act.