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PwC strikes back in class action over $50M Axsesstoday prospectus
Professional services giant PricewaterhouseCoopers has hit back at a class action over a $50 million prospectus for Axsesstoday, filing a cross-claim against the asset finance lender and saying it “takes no responsibility” for allegedly defective offer documents.
Fifth overtime class action filed by junior doctors in Victoria
Victoria's Alfred and St Vincent's hospitals are the targets of a new class action filed on behalf of junior doctors alleging they were not paid for unrostered work that included admitting patients and attending to medical emergencies.
Law firm preparing class actions against Apple, Google
Apple and Google's legal woes in Australia are set to worsen, with a leading class action firm preparing to file class actions against the Silicon Valley giants for alleged competition and consumer law violations.
Mitsubishi hit with class action over ‘misleading’ fuel economy labels
Japanese car maker Mitsubishi Motors has been hit with a class action for allegedly making misleading fuel efficiency representations on over 70,000 Triton Utes sold in Australia since 2015.
Slater & Gordon’s former boss admits to ‘catastrophic error’
Former Slater & Gordon managing director Andrew Grech has told the Federal Court he regretted his "catastrophic error" in approving the $1.2 billion acquisition of Quindell's professional services division, which resulted in massive losses for the plaintiffs law firm.
Arnold Bloch Leibler to pay $28M in class action settlement
Law firm Arnold Bloch Leibler will part with $28 million in its settlement with Slater & Gordon shareholders over advice ahead of the plaintiffs firm's disastrous $1.2 billion Quindell acquisition.
Banksia judge made no allowance for ‘youth and inexperience’ of Mark Elliott’s son, appeal says
The judge who made findings against the son of the mastermind behind the Banksia class action scam may have formed strong views about the 27-year-old's role before he testified and used the flawed suggestion that he was his father's right-hand man as an "evidential gap filler", an appeals court has been told.
Group costs order not ‘appropriate or necessary’ in G8 shareholder class action, court told
A judge hearing the second ever application for a group costs order in a shareholder class action against early childhood education provider G8 Education has heard she should reject the request because it is not “appropriate or necessary” to ensure justice in the proceeding.
AMP’s bid to declass insurance class action ‘antithesis’ of interests of justice, court rules
Financial services company AMP has lost its bid to de-class representative proceedings brought on behalf of 1.5 million insurance customers.
Beach Energy faces second shareholder class action
Beach Energy has been hit with a second shareholder class action in as many days over allegedly misleading earnings projections for its Western Flank oil and gas reserves in the Cooper Basin.