The state of Victoria has foreshadowed a High Court challenge in its fight to stay a class action over the 2020 hotel quarantine in light of criminal action, an appeal it said raised issues relating to the “increasing and regular prosecutions” of government and corporate entities over health and safety laws.
The state of Victoria has agreed to pay $5 million to settle a class action over a public housing lockdown during Melbourne’s second COVID-19 wave in July 2020.
A judge has questioned an “unusual” bid by Noumi to shield over 3,000 documents, their titles and the identities of those who sent them to PricewaterhouseCoopers during a 2020 investigation into the food company’s financial position.
Infrastructure services company Downer EDI has been hit with a second shareholder class action following revelations of accounting irregularities that sent its share price tumbling.
Apple has denied it engaged in anti-competitive conduct in operating its App Store in a class action brought over allegedly inflated commissions on certain apps and in-app purchases.
A judge has criticised a bid by the NSW government to access seven months of messages relating to drugs by the lead plaintiff in a class action over allegedly illegal strip searches at a Byron Bay music festival, saying they seemed “wholly irrelevant” to the case.
Private health insurer Medibank has hit back at a class action over a data breach that affected close to 10 million customers, describing the claims as “hopeless.”
The applicants in a shareholder class action against the former Freedom Foods have failed in a bid to cross-examine Noumi’s inhouse counsel on affidavits swearing to the legal professional privilege of 3,000 documents, including material containing advice from accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers.
The Victoria Supreme Court will not appoint a contradictor to weigh in on the reasonableness of a $1.25 million settlement offered by companies associated with the wife of a once prominent silk struck from the roll over the Banksia Securities class action scandal.
A shareholder class action against software company Nuix will go ahead as planned, after a stay application threatened to put the proceeding on ice pending the outcome of a separate case brought by ASIC.