Holden dealers in a class action over GM’s decision to retire the brand in March 2020 have taken issue with the car maker’s counterfactual in defence, which argues the plant supplying Holden’s best-selling models would have closed anyway.
Infant formula giant Care A2 will try again to block business partner Gensco from bringing claims against it in a US court that overlap with a $200 million Australian lawsuit over a deal to sell formula in the US.
Independent Sydney MP Alex Greenwich, who is suing politician Mark Latham over a homophobic social media post, claims the One Nation NSW leader’s defence has aggravated his damages by relying on a “disgraceful” gay stereotype.
ASIC has brought court action against Westpac for allegedly dropping the ball on financial hardship claims by customers, some of whom had property seized or declared bankruptcy while waiting for a response from the Big Four bank.
The Albanese government has unveiled its latest industrial relations bill to set minimum conditions for the gig economy and empower the workplace umpire to order equal pay for labour hire workers.
Agrochemical giant Monsanto is digging in for a fight in a class action over its alleged carcinogenic weed killer, Roundup, having refused to budge in mediation despite a $16 billion settlement in the US.
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has launched legal action against five former directors and officers of defunct funeral insurance firm Youpla Group.
Delays in court approval of settlements in their pelvic mesh class actions against US giants Johnson & Johnson and Boston Scientific have been blamed for Shine Lawyers’ 89.39 per cent decline in net profits for 2023.
A referee will calculate individual damages for 290 former Royal Australian Navy sailors after failed attempts at a settlement in a class action against the Department of Defence, in which a judge ruled the government owed compensation.
Dell Australia has been ordered to pay a $10 million penalty for making false and misleading representations about the discount prices of add-on computer monitors.