The winning, 14 per cent contingency fee proposal by Slater & Gordon in a fight to run a class action against Star Entertainment was not driven by a desire to prevail in the contest and buy market share but was the product of a “reasoned decision” that took into account the law firm’s practice as a whole, a judge has found.
Another online trader has been hit with a class action by inexperienced investors who lost money while trading in risky derivatives slammed as little more than gambling products.
A self-executing order dismissing a womanās false imprisonment claim against the State of Victoria after a single attempt at pleading was ādraconianā, an appeals court has found.
A senior barrister with three decades of experience in commercial law and class actions has been appointed to the Supreme Court of Victoria.
Shareholders of failed engineering firm RCR Tomlinson have secured a $40 million settlement in a class action brought over alleged misleading ASX statements.
A class action has been launched against the Australian Football League alleging First Nations players, umpires and officials were subject to racial vilification and discrimination.
A restaurant famous for its Peking roast duck has lost a dispute with Sydney’s World Square Shopping Centre over unpaid rent, with a judge dismissing an argument that compliance with its lease during COVID-19 would have radically altered the eatery.
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.
The High Court will deliver judgment Wednesday in an appeal by Qantas over its decision to sack its ground crew at the height of COVID-19, a ruling that could determine the scope of adverse action protections under the Fair Work Act.
Hungry Jack’s faces calls for a court injunction preventing the burger chain from proceeding with plans to open restaurants in close proximity to a franchisee’s sites on NSW’s Central Coast.