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PFAS class action judge OKs $132.7M settlement, $33M CFO
Anya Poukchanski 2023-08-25 10:38 pm By Cindy Cameronne

A judge has blessed a $132.7 million settlement and a $33 million common fund order in a class action over toxic firefighting foam, saying he was “not vexed” by whether he had power to grant the funder’s payout despite the Full Court having reserved on the contentious issue. 

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NAB class action seeks to bring ‘very serious’ new fraud allegations
Allens 2023-08-25 2:25 pm By Cindy Cameronne

NAB will fight a bid by a $78 million class action over the collapse of Walton Construction to add serious fraud allegations in the four-year-old case, which a judge said has been “mired in a procedural mess”.

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University of Sydney can’t advance ‘unclear’ claims over flammable building panels
Adele Carr 2023-08-25 1:02 pm By Sam Matthews

The University of Sydney has lost a bid to amend its claims against a consultant in litigation over allegedly defective building work carried out on its Charles Perkins Centre in Camperdown.

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Norovirus class action faces ‘lurking’ stay issue
Class Actions 2023-08-25 11:55 am By Sam Matthews

After surviving multiple strike-out bids, a class action against Carnival over norovirus outbreaks on its Sun Princess cruise ship is still facing a “lurking” issue about a potential stay in relation to the claims of a subset of group members.

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Energy Beverages wins fight over Kangaroo Mother trade mark
Appeals 2023-08-24 11:54 pm By Christine Caulfield

The maker of Mother energy drinks has won an appeal of an IP Australia decision, succeeding in its bid to prevent a Victoria-based company from registering Kangaroo Mother as a trade mark for beverages.

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Enviro group wins access to docs on $1.3B Toondah Harbour development
Diana Tang 2023-08-24 4:59 pm By Cindy Cameronne

An environment group that alleges former treasurer Josh Frydenberg rejected advice from the climate change office on a high-rise apartment development on protected wetlands near Brisbane has won access to correspondence about the project.

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$41.45M settlement approved in pelvic mesh class action
AJB Stevens 2023-08-24 3:42 pm By Cindy Cameronne

A judge has approved a $41.45 million settlement in a pelvic mesh class action against manufacturers Covidien and TFS but has put off deciding on the costs of the firm that ran the case, saying it is “next to useless” when law firms appoint their own costs consultants.

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Deloitte may ask court to keep lid on class action settlement
Accounting 2023-08-24 2:35 pm By Sam Matthews

Deloitte may seek confidentiality orders over the amount it agreed to pay to settle a shareholder class action over its audits of collapsed construction group Hastie.

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‘Group members are human beings’: Judge pans discontinuance notice in postgrads class action
Adero Law 2023-08-24 1:18 pm By Cindy Cameronne

A judge has panned as “thoroughly unsatisfactory” a draft notice informing group members in an underpayments class action against the federal government that only claims on behalf of postgraduate research students at the University of Sydney will continue.

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Ardent Leisure settles class action over Dreamworld tragedy for $26M
Class Actions 2023-08-24 11:55 am By Cat Fredenburgh

A $26 million settlement has been reached in a class action against Ardent Leisure alleging it misled shareholders about safety measures that were in place ahead of the 2016 tragedy at its Dreamworld theme park in Queensland which claimed four lives.

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