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Judge shoots down damages questions for initial trial in NAB super class action
Celia Winnett 2022-03-16 2:18 pm By Miklos Bolza Sydney

A judge hearing a superannuation class action against NAB unit NULIS Nominees will not determine the correct approach for calculating damages at an initial trial scheduled for later this year.

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‘Intimate’ encounter with student no cause for ANU professor’s dismissal, FWC says
Education 2022-03-16 1:56 pm By Sam Matthews Melbourne

A Fair Work commissioner who previously slammed vaccine mandates as “medical apartheid” has found that an Australian National University professor was unfairly fired over a 30-minute “intimate” beach encounter with a student.

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Viterra loses bid for ‘drastic’ freezing orders to safekeep $18m arbitration award
Agriculture 2022-03-15 10:01 pm By Cindy Cameronne Sydney

Viterra has lost its battle to maintain freezing orders against two Australian business as it seeks to enforce an $18.7 million arbitration award against a related but separate Chinese company.

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Doral defeats ‘speculative’ pre-action discovery bid over $32M Keysbrook mine sale
Bennett + Co 2022-03-15 5:54 pm By Miklos Bolza Sydney

Doral Mineral Sands has successfully blocked a pre-action discovery bid by an irate shareholder over losses stemming from the $32 million Keysbrook mine sale, with the Western Australia Supreme Court finding that any case against Doral was “mere assertion, conjecture or suspicion”

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‘Grave concerns’ raised by contradictor about 7-Eleven class action lawyer’s comments
7-Eleven 2022-03-15 3:42 pm By Miklos Bolza Sydney

The contradictor appointed to represent group members in an application for approval of a $98 million settlement of two franchisee class actions against 7-Eleven has raised “grave concerns” about criticism by the senior partner of the law firm running the proceedings.

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ASIC’s penalty against Squirrel Super ‘might be a bit light on’, court says
ASIC 2022-03-15 3:15 pm By Sam Matthews Melbourne

A judge has questioned the $55,000 penalty jointly proposed by the parties in ASIC’s case against fintech company Squirrel Super over misleading statements about returns on property statements, saying it “might be a bit light on.”

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Judge to lawyers: I hate to break it to you, but I don’t want your emails
Alistair Pound 2022-03-15 2:13 pm By Christine Caulfield Melbourne

A judge overseeing a joint class action against Freedom Foods and Deloitte wants to break a bad habit among litigators of attaching to affidavits reams of correspondence between solicitors, and she has a message for legal practitioners — the court is not interested in what lawyers say to each other.

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No duty of care owed to kids by environment minister, Full Court rules
Appeals 2022-03-15 10:45 am By Christine Caulfield Melbourne

The Full Federal Court has overturned a historic judgment that found the federal minister for the environment owed a duty of care to Australians under 18 to protect them from ‘catastrophic’ harm caused by the approval of the Vickery coal mine expansion.

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US bank boss Peter Schiff endorsed tax evasion, Nine says in defamation defence
Dauid Sibtain 2022-03-14 6:13 pm By Miklos Bolza Sydney

Nine Network has hit back at a defamation lawsuit filed by the CEO and founder of Euro Pacific Bank, Peter Schiff, arguing that he knowingly endorsed tax evasion and attracted criminals by situating the bank in “notorious” locations with lax reporting requirements.

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Facebook takes fight over Cambridge Analytica case to High Court
Australian Government Solicitor 2022-03-14 2:17 pm By Miklos Bolza Sydney

Facebook has filed an application with the High Court seeking to overturn a judgment that found it can be sued in Australia for alleged privacy violations over the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

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