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‘Shocked’ judge eviscerates Tyro class action settlement
A judge has approved a $5 million class action settlement against payment processor Tyro over a service outage but has shredded the proposed funder payout and legal fees that would have comprised 60 per cent of the sum, calling the costs "outrageous". 
TPG-backed company fleeced in major scam tied to $1B climate deal, court told
TPG-owned Anew Climate has sued an Australian company that allegedly impersonated a US carbon offset developer by using "bogus" emails to unlawfully receive payments under a $968 million (US$640 million) investment deal, a court has heard.
WA government faces second class action by Banksia Hill inmates
Law firm Levitt Robinson has filed a second class action against the Western Australian government on behalf of inmates in the state's Banksia Hill detention centre alleging unlawful disability and age discrimination.
Sydney MP Alex Greenwich to sue Mark Latham over homophobic tweet
Independent member for Sydney Alex Greenwich is preparing to bring a defamation case against One Nation’s NSW leader, Mark Latham, after he published a homophobic post on Twitter last month.
Linchpin class action concerned about ‘authenticity’ of evidence for trial
The applicant in an investor class action over the collapse of advisory firm Linchpin Capital and Endeavour Securities has raised concerns about the authenticity of Linchpin's business records, which it wants to put into evidence at trial in two months.
‘Not motivated by access to justice’: Funder hit with indemnity costs in copyright case
A judge has ordered a litigation funder that bankrolled a photographer’s unsuccessful copyright claim against CoreLogic to pay indemnity costs to the property data analytics company, saying the funder was not “motivated by any concerns for access to justice”.
ASIC investigates Nuix boss over $236,000 share purchase
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has launched an investigation into whether Nuix’s current Chief Executive Officer Jonathan Rubinsztein unlawfully bought shares in the company after learning about a potential takeover offer.
UFG to pay $5M for misleading gym franchisees about ‘near valueless’ businesses
The company behind the Ultimate Fighting Championship gym franchise has been ordered to pay $5 million to three franchisees after a judge found it misled them about businesses which were “near valueless” and unlikely to make profit. 
Ex-commando slams ABC’s ‘nonsensical’ argument against damages in defamation case
Former Army major Heston Russell has panned the ABC’s argument that it is not liable to pay damages in his defamation case because he identified himself and was given an opportunity to respond to stories that suggested he was involved in murdering an Afghan prisoner.
In decades-long fight over coal seam gas fields, Tri-Star loses referee bid
Texas oil giant Tri-Star has lost its bid for a referral in a dispute with natural gas exporter Australia Pacific LNG over several coal seam gas fields in Queensland and $7.6 billion in share acquisitions.