A junior doctor representing thousands of medical officers in NSW has thwarted an application by the state to declass her group proceeding, with a judge saying a “single determination” of the issues common to all group members was the most efficient way of resolving them.
A court has signed off on a settlement in a six-year-old class action against mining services company Thiess by fly-in fly-out workers recruited for construction of a Woodside Energy LNG plant in WA’s Pilbara region.
A class action against AGL Energy alleges the Big three energy supplier’s adoption of “gaming” strategies in the supply of electricity in South Australia led to anomalous price spikes in the state.
The High Court has rejected an appeal by a mortgage broker in a saga stretching back a decade, when the corporate regulator imposed a lifelong ban against the broker for failing to disclose a conviction on his credit licence application.
Notional GST payments by local councils under an intergovernmental agreement with the Commonwealth are a voluntary act, not an impermissible tax in breach of the Constitution, the High Court has ruled.
Armaguard and rival Prosegur have secured authorisation for their proposed merger from the ACCC, which has found the likely reduction in competition in the cash transport industry was outweighed by the public benefits of the transaction.
The former chief financial officer of Big Un has become the third person to be charged with insider trading connected to shares in the defunct video producer.
BHP has admitted it underpaid mine workers $430 million for over a decade by improperly deducting leave for public holidays.
One Nation senator Pauline Hanson has told a court her social media post calling on Greens deputy leader Dr Mehreen Faruqi to “piss off back to Pakistan” was not based on race or ethnicity.
The Federal Court’s recently retired top judge has landed on his feet with his appointment by the court as referee to determine which of a group of competing firms should dole out a $300 million settlement that resolved the J&J pelvic mesh class actions.