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A judge has tossed out an application by a group of surgeons who formerly worked for The Cosmetic Institute to declass a representative proceeding on behalf of 13,500 patients who claim they suffered injury or complications from breast augmentation surgery.
A declassing bid by nine doctors in a class action on behalf of women allegedly injured by a one-size-fits-all approach to breast implant surgeries must apply to the entire proceeding, not just the claims against them, a court has heard.
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 court has ruled that Chinese vitamin company Nature's Care cannot sell its imported fish oil and vitamin D with the 'Made in Australia' logo because the product fails to meet the required country-of-origin labelling provisions.
The consumer regulator asked a court Friday to dismiss a lawsuit brought against it by Chinese vitamin giant Nature's Care Manufacture over Australian-made product labels, saying it had been wrongly "dragged into a controversy".
Sydney magistrate Joan Baptie has agreed to settle a defamation case brought against the owner of radio station 2GB after an on-air apology by host Ben Fordham.