Dealer Brighton Automative is gunning for $13.9 million in damages after Honda cut its contract off prematurely, with Honda hopeful the figure is more like $12.1 million.
A judge has allowed investors bringing a class action against Virgin to join Velocity Rewards to the case, despite finding the proposed claims against the frequent flyer program are “barely arguable”.
BHP has told an appeals court a shareholder class action should not be allowed to expand the group definition to correct an alleged drafting error.
Optus has been hit with a $12 million penalty over a “preventable” nationwide network outage in November 2023, which left thousands of customers unable to make emergency calls.
Professional services firms should be limited to 400 partners to improve accountability and transparency, a final parliamentary report into the PwC tax scandal has proposed.
The High Court has upheld appeals in class actions against Ford and Toyota over the calculation of damages for reduction in value of defective vehicles.
NAB has successfully opposed a US company’s bid to register a trade mark for ‘UWallet’, with IP Australia rejecting claims the bank was trying to establish a “de facto monopoly”.
Still feeling aftershocks from last year’s tax leaks scandal, PricewaterhouseCoopers has lost seven partners to the risk and regulatory team of Big Six law firm MinterEllison.
Class closure orders are “anathema” to the purpose of group proceedings in facilitating access to justice and should never be ordered, the High Court has been told.
Isuzu is not giving up its bid to slam the brakes on a suit by car alarm company Directed Electronics over alleged trade secrets theft.