Cindy Cameronne

A law firm is mulling a class action against Toyota over paint on certain Corolla models that allegedly peeled when exposed to sunlight or ultraviolet light, in alleged breach of the acceptable quality guarantees under the Australian Consumer Law. 

An environmental group has lost its case alleging the federal government failed to take climate change into account when it renewed an agreement for logging in New South Wales, with a judge saying it was a ‘political’ issue rather than one for the courts.

The Fair Work Ombudsman has brought proceedings against three United Petroleum-branded outlets in Tasmania and South Australia, alleging they underpaid migrant workers by more than $26,000. 

The New South Wales government wants to strike out class action claims that police conducted illegal strip searches at music festivals in the state ‘as a matter of routine’ and that it should face exemplary damages.

Australia Post unit StarTrack has won an injunction barring postal product manufacturer TMA Australia from using a website URL containing the words ‘StarTrack’, with the Full Court finding a judge wrongly held the case was ‘weak’.

The Star is challenging a finding from the commissioner of taxation that the casino giant owes $5.3 million on payments made to junket operators, arguing the payments were not ‘payments for operating or promoting a junket’. 

New Zealand construction giant Fletcher Building has hit back at a shareholder class action over allegedly misleading forecasts for the 2017 financial year, saying some of the claims under New Zealand law were brought out of time.

A class action boutique has filed proceedings against Toyota’s finance arm over car loans that allegedly encouraged dealers to set high interest rates in exchange for large kickbacks.

A tribunal has found a Sydney solicitor guilty of professional misconduct after finding he sent numerous emails that contained profane language and were condescending to a Mills Oakley solicitor during a dispute involving his mother-in-law.

Lawyers for accused rapist Bruce Lehrmann have conceded his evidence on several issues was “lacking credibility”, but say the court should not find him a “compulsive liar” as argued by Network Ten and journalist Lisa Wilkinson in defending his defamation case.