Fonterra has agreed to shell out $25 million to settle a class action by dairy farmers alleging they were underpaid when Fonterra slashed milk prices and sought a âclawbackâ in 2016.
The applicants in a consumer class action against Allianz have been ordered to produce an insurance policy that covers them for the risk of losing the case, which the insurer says will inform its bid for security for costs.
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission is targeting predatory lending, greenwashing and crypto-assets as rising interest rates cause consumers to turn to fringe sources of credit.
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has drawn âa line in the sandâ on greenwashing and will no longer accept âpurely aspirationalâ climate change targets from companies, the regulatorâs deputy chair has said.
The chair of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission has warned consumers about investing in ârisky, speciality, poorly understoodâ crypto-assets, as the regulator steps up its investigations into managed funds acting in the space.Â
A judge has criticised the applicant in a class action against failed asset manager Blue Sky Alternative Investments for filing court documents late, as he prepares to grapple with an imminent competing class action.
Lendlease and other major builders have secured a significant victory in a long-running case brought by the liquidators of failed engineering company Hastie Group, with a judge saying Hastie wasn’t entitled to the proceeds of bank guarantees withdrawn by the builders when it collapsed 10 years ago.
A judge has approved a $41 million settlement in a shareholder class action against Pitcher Partners but has reduced the funderâs cut to $11.5 million after resolving a feud with the lead applicant over how much it should receive for taking the case to trial.
Uber has lost its challenge to a decision that found many of its email exchanges with lawyers were made in furtherance of offences at the centre of class action claims and were not protected by legal professional privilege.
A Queensland silk who was subjected to comments by the late Judge Guy Andrew that an appeals court later deemed cruel and humiliating has been barred from practice after allegedly appearing in court without a practising certificate.