A class action has been filed targeting Victoria Police’s use of capsicum spray and excessive force against protestors at the International Mining and Resources Conference in Melbourne three years ago.
The Full Federal Court has thrown out a decision that found foreign passengers could join a class action against cruise operator Carnival PLC over the 2020 COVID-19 outbreak aboard the Ruby Princess, finding a class action waiver was not unfair.
Western Australia is set to become the fifth state in Australia that allows lawyers to launch class actions, after a bill permitting representative proceedings advanced in the state parliament’s upper house.
A landmark class action on behalf of over 1,700 family members and deceased estates of the Northern Territory Stolen Generations has reached a $50.45 million settlement with the federal government.
The special purpose receiver acting for debenture holders of defunct Banksia Securities was right to reject a confidential settlement — believed to be for $10.6 million — offered by the disgraced lawyers behind a scandal-ridden class action, a court has found.
The entity that employs the workforce of the On The Run convenience store chain has agreed to pay $5.8 million to settle a class action accusing it of underpaying over 8,000 workers over a six-year period.
A judge has approved a $6.4 million settlement in a class action on behalf of Papua New Guinea workers against labour hire firm CoreStaff, despite the agreement allotting less than half the proceeds to group members.
The state of Victoria can’t duck class action claims that failures in its hotel quarantine program caused businesses to suffer losses when stage three and four restrictions were put in place during the state’s second wave of COVID-19 cases in 2020.
A judge has blasted Domino’s for its obstructionism in an underpayments class action and promised to order the pizza franchise giant to hand over information on its stores to facilitate settlement.
A joint venture formed to fund class action litigation has lost its bid for declarations against one of its former shareholders after arguing its former bankrupt director “ineffectively” transferred half of his shares.