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Contradictor in class action fights Monash IVF’s bid to hold on to embryos
Class Actions 2024-07-30 11:05 pm By Sam Matthews

A contradictor has argued against Monash IVF’s bid for orders allowing it to retain embryos as evidence in a class action, saying the Victorian Supreme Court has no power to make orders inconsistent with the company’s statutory obligation to store embryos for a maximum of five years. 

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Monash IVF fights plaintiff’s ‘new case’ in embryo class action
Class Actions 2024-07-15 2:52 pm By Sam Matthews

Monash IVF is fighting a class action’s bid to file a fourth statement of claim in the three year-old case over the alleged destruction of potentially viable embryos, saying the proposed pleadings sparked by an expert report constituted a new case. 

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Atanaskovic Hartnell, founding partner must pay $185,000 to former manager
Employment 2023-02-03 11:38 pm By Sam Matthews

Law firm Atanaskovic Hartnell and founding partner John Atanaskovic have been ordered to pay penalties of $184,680 to a former general manager, on top of a previous $160,000 judgment for engaging in what a judge said was a campaign to “abuse, belittle and victimise” the woman.

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Atanaskovic Hartnell founder abused, belittled ex-general manager, court finds
Employment 2022-04-01 10:39 pm By Christine Caulfield

Sydney law firm Atanaskovic Hartnell has been ordered to pay more than $160,000 to a former general manager who was found by a court to have been the victim of a “campaign of denigration” by one of the firm’s founders.

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Class action members having ‘second thoughts’ after payments from Monash IVF, court told
Class Actions 2021-07-14 3:38 pm By Miklos Bolza

Monash IVF patients who accuse the company of destroying viable embryos are having “second thoughts” after accepting payment offers by the fertility clinic and signing away their rights to participate in a class action, a Victoria Supreme Court judge has heard.

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Monash IVF raises ‘serious questions’ about validity of class action
Class Actions 2021-02-25 12:27 pm By Miklos Bolza

Fertility clinic Monash IVF says there are “serious questions” about whether a class action that accuses it of destroying viable embryos was validly commenced as a class action.

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3A Composites issues ultimatum in combustible cladding class action
Class Actions 2019-09-12 3:11 pm By Miklos Bolza

German-based 3A Composites has issued an ultimatum in the high-stakes combustible cladding class action against it, saying it will try to shut down the matter as a representative proceeding if group member registration and opt out are not initiated.

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3A Composites challenges commonality in cladding class action
Class Actions 2019-08-27 9:10 pm By Miklos Bolza

3A Composites has slammed the pleadings in a class action against it over allegedly combustible cladding, questioning whether the stated common issues are actually common to all group members.

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Combustible cladding defendants may drag engineers, certifiers into class action
Class Actions 2019-07-08 8:36 pm By Amelia Birnie

German-based cladding manufacturer 3A Composites has foreshadowed potential cross claims against third party engineers and certifiers in one of two class actions brought over allegedly dangerous combustible cladding used in countless buildings across Australia.

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Ex-Babcock & Brown execs dodge case over botched $1.4B acquisition
Corporate 2019-05-14 10:00 pm By Christine Caulfield

A court has dismissed a long-running case against defunct Babcock & Brown executives by a private investment fund over a botched $1.4B acquisition of the biggest laundry equipment provider in the US, saying the executives did not breach their duties by failing to disclose that the bank underwriting the deal allegedly wanted out.

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