Opal Tower engineer WSP has succeeded in claiming the costs of a class action from insurers for builder Icon, with a judge finding engineers were not excluded from the policy’s coverage for subcontractors.
A former Qantas worker looks set to appeal a judgment that found she can’t undo a $75,000 settlement in a workers compensation claim in order to pursue a discrimination suit against the airline.
A judge has appealed a ruling that put him on the hook for damages for ordering the wrongful imprisonment of a Queensland man and set off alarm bells and calls for legislation by the nation’s legal bodies.
In allowing Seven and chairman Kerry Stokes to challenge a ruling granting Fairfax access to 8,600 emails with accused war criminal Ben Roberts-Smith’s legal team, a judge has said they will suffer prejudice if “personally embarrassing” communications are put into evidence.
A traditional custodian has won her bid to halt seismic blasting for Woodside’s Scarborough gas project off the coast of Western Australia, in a legal challenge similar to one that put Santos’ $4.7 billion Barossa project on ice.
The firm and funder that ran a shareholder class action against Ardent Leisure over the 2016 Dreamworld tragedy are seeking deductions totalling more than half of the $26 million settlement reached in the case.
AMP has appealed its loss in a class action over changes to its buyer of last resort policy, under which the wealth manager slashed the amount it would pay financial advisers for their books of business.
A customer of non-bank lender Latitude Financial has filed a bid to join tech giants DXC Technology and Crowdstrike to her lawsuit claiming over $1 million in compensation from a cyberattack that compromised 14 million customer records.
Former premier of NSW Gladys Berejiklian has filed a legal challenge to an ICAC report which found she and her ex-boyfriend, former member for Wagga Wagga Daryl Maguire, engaged in “serious corrupt conduct”.
A former top judge appointed to decide the first-ever contest to administer a class action settlement has set out his criteria for making the choice, and has warned that giving the firm running a case a monopoly right to dole out the proceeds could lead to higher costs for group members and poorer settlement outcomes.