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A judge has cut Slater & Gordon's 33% contingency fee in a class action against Insurance Australia, saying it was too high since there was nothing "particularly novel” about the case.
Law firm Gordon Legal has filed a tenth class action on behalf of junior doctors in Victoria who were allegedly underpaid for shift work, after several landmark wins in similar cases.
In the latest case of a ruling being reversed for copying and pasting, a judge has quashed the AAT’s decision to cancel a student visa for failing to bring an independent mind to the issues.
ANZ Bank New Zealand has lost its bid to appeal a ruling that common fund orders can be made in class actions, including at an early stage of the proceeding,
Animal health company Virbac has lost its interlocutory bid to block a generic version of its animal drug Cydectin Platinum by rival Abbey Laboratories.
Shareholders in collapsed financial services firm Babcock & Brown have lost their bid to stay costs orders after losing a ten-year-old dispute.
Maurice Blackburn is stuck paying $5.4 million in security in a flex commissions class action against Macquarie, with a judge saying it represents a “business risk willingly undertaken”.
Two Queensland solicitors have scored partial wins in their decades-long disputes with the tax office because of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal’s “wholesale failure” to give proper reasons.
An intellectual property firm has lost its legal challenge to Apple's bid to patent its method of authentication on electronic devices, including smartphones.