The Western Australian government has won its bid to strike out a class action that seeks damages for alleged discrimination against First Nations Australians detained for unpaid fines.
A judge has approved a settlement in a class action against Queensland-based RMS Engineering and Construction alleging it refused to give staff meal breaks and threatened those who complained about excessive hours.
Philips Electronics will not face a class action in Australia over recalled sleep apnea machines that contained a foam component that could degrade and cause consumers to inhale dangerous chemicals, after the law firm running the litigation decided to drop the case.
Insurer Bond & Credit Company is seeking to join Greensill Group to three lawsuits over the financing firm’s $1.7 billion collapse in March 2020, while Greensill has foreshadowed its own cross-claims against Insurance Australia Group.
The Pokemon Company has taken an Australian business to court for allegedly threatening to release Pokemon non-fungible tokens for use in an augmented reality game without the copyright ownerâs permission.
A judge has ordered debt collection agency A&M Group to pay $800,000 after it allegedly harassed and coerced debtors by repeatedly contacting family, friends and employers and claiming they could face imprisonment.
A judge has thrown out a long-running class action on behalf of 20 local councils in NSW alleging insurer JLT Risk Solutions charged them hundreds of millions of dollars in excessive premiums over nine years.
A law firm has lost its bid to challenge a court order that it join forces with a competing firm in an investor class action against Blue Sky Alternative Investments and auditor EY.
The Albanese government has vowed to abolish and replace the Administrative Appeals Tribunal, saying it has been âfatally compromisedâ by the former government which allegedly appointed political allies who had no expertise.
A psychiatrist that sued HarperCollins for defamation over a book on the use of deep sleep therapy at the Chelmsford Private Hospital in the 1970s has lost his bid to disallow the publisherâs claim that any damage he suffered was mitigated by his bad reputation.