Allianz Australia and its travel insurance unit AWP Australia have been hit with $1.5 million in penalties in ASICâs case alleging the insurance companies misled customers while selling travel insurance on Expedia websites.
Eight major banks, including Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank and Citicorp, are facing a lawsuit for withdrawing financial support for a project to build and launch the first independently owned satellite in Australia.
A judge has thrown out an urgent bid by Australian religious leaders for a temporary exemption from COVID-19 lockdown orders in NSW and Victoria to observe upcoming religious holidays, saying granting the injunction may lead to deaths.
The Western Australian government will soon be hit with a class action on behalf of young people who allegedly suffered mistreatment while in juvenile detention, including excessive solitary confinement, improper living conditions and discrimination.
A NSW barrister has been hit with an injunction for working without a valid practising certificate after a judge made a complaint to the Bar Association.
A judge has questioned why a class action against Aveo Group has âstalledâ after tossing the retirement home providerâs bid to determine group membersâ loss in a preliminary hearing, saying the questions in the case could not be âneatly separatedâ.
As states across Australia grapple with lockdowns and rising COVID-19 cases, lawyers practising in a range of areas, from employment to insurance, are bracing for a fresh wave of pandemic-related litigation before the year is out.
The judge overseeing ASICâs first COVID-19-related case has criticised personal lender ClearLoansâ delay in responding to the case, saying a change in the company’s legal representation was not an excuse for defaulting on court orders.
BlueScope has labelled “delusional” an argument by the competition regulator that alleged correspondence from a distributor about the steel companyâs suggested higher prices was evidence of price-fixing.
Liberal MP Christian Porter has won his bid to block Nine and News Corp from using secret portions of ABCâs defence to his defamation allegations that the media giants accessed as intervenors in the former Attorney-Generalâs case.