In a major defeat that could affect the fate of six other cases lined up behind it, a judge has dismissed the lead plaintiff’s claims in a class action against Volkswagen over deadly Takata airbags.
Johnson Winter & Slattery senior associate Felicity Karageorge first discovered she wanted a career in the law from an unlikely source: daytime television.
A judge has shot down an attempt by cruise giant Royal Caribbean to block victims of the White Island volcano eruption in New Zealand from suing for damages in a US court.
Law firm Slater & Gordon is investigating a shareholder class action against Australia’s largest onshore oil producer Beach Energy, following a significant decline in its projected earnings from oil reserves on the Western Flank in South Australia.
Ben Roberts-Smith has been accused of “inventing stories” to conceal facts that would support publisher Fairfax’s version of events concerning war crimes allegedly committed by the former SAS soldier in Afghanistan.
National Australia Bank has urged a court to impose a $15 million penalty for its five-year failure to adequately disclose its adviser fees, and has argued ASIC’s push for a steeper penalty goes too far.
AMP and a number of its financial planning subsidiaries have launched a bid to declass a group proceeding jointly run by Piper Alderman and Shine Lawyers over allegedly excessive insurance premiums.
Juggling a promising legal career and being the mother of two small children, King & Wood Mallesons’ Kione Johnson, who was the lead senior associate for dam operator Seqwater in the complex Queensland floods class action, revels in the “constant state of chaos” of her daily routine.
Accused war criminal Ben Roberts-Smith has told a court it was “more than reasonable” for him to assume an unarmed Afghan man was a hostile insurgent because he saw another soldier shoot at the man first.
The High Court has denied a request from former senator David Leyonhjelm to challenge a ruling ordering him to pay $120,000 to Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young for defaming her with “crass” and “obviously sexist” comments made in a series of interviews in 2018.