A judge has given a competition class action against AGL Energy another chance to secure funding, but imposed a âdrop dead dateâ by which the proceeding will be dismissed if no funder is found.
A judge has ruled that a settlement offer made in a case can be adduced into evidence in a construction companyâs suit against its former lawyers, finding that the offer was not covered by without penalty privilege.
Clive Palmer has lost his bid to overturn a council decision to reject his plan for a residential development at a Gold Coast flood plain, with a judge noting that would-be residents would be subject to the âadverse odoursâ of a nearby sewerage treatment plant.
A judge has ordered wealth manager Mercer Financial Advice to pay a $12 million penalty for âextremely seriousâ fees-for-no-service conduct and breaches of its fee disclosure obligations, in a case brought by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission. In the case, filed in June last year, Â ASIC alleged that Mercer charged 761 customers a total…
A judge has reduced the jail sentence imposed on a Brisbane man who falsely represented he was a lawyer on the Airtasker app, but refused his bid to get away with a fine, saying a prison term âwas the only appropriate sentencing optionâ in the case.
A judge has given the green light to a $11 million settlement in a class action against retirement village provider Aveo, but reserved his decision about whether a contested amount of over $1 million should go to group members or the law firm that brought the case.
Personal injury law firm Gerard Malouf & Partners has hit back at Maurice Blackburnâs challenge to its class action experience in a fight for carriage of a class action against a Toyota unit, saying the top US firm it has partnered with to run the case trumped the major Australian plaintiff firm “on every conceivable dimensionâ.
Nine has agreed to pay Euro Pacific CEO Peter Schiff $550,000 to settle a defamation suit brought over a 60 Minutes report on an international tax evasion investigation, avoiding a contested hearing on the damages bill in the case.
Nuix had information in January 2021 which undermined the growth story presented to the market in the prospectus for its IPO, a court has heard on the first day of ASICâs case against the tech company and a handful of former directors.
Network Ten is pushing to transfer proceedings by TV presenter Lisa Wilkinson for coverage of her legal bill in a defamation case by accused rapist Bruce Lehrmann to the court hearing the former Liberal staffer’s case.