Marcus Bastiaan has sued solicitors who acted in his settled defamation case against Nine over branch stacking allegations, claiming the legal bill was āgrossly disproportionateā and almost double his settlement.
Financial services provider Pioneer Credit has taken auditor PwC to court, claiming $32 million in loss and damages over its advice on how the company should value its financial assets.
A class action over a December 2019 fire that was allegedly ignited by welding work on a rural property in NSW and spread out of control has settled for $4.5 million.Ā
A judge has thrown out a lawsuit over the $55 million sale of Queensland shopping centre brought by an arm of Elanor Investors Group, clearing the vendor and its agent of allegedly misleading or deceptive conduct.
Two units of electricity giant AGL Energy will pay penalties totalling $6 million for being unable to make good on their promise to be on standby to release electricity to help prevent blackouts.
Construing an āambiguousā order from the Full Federal Court, a judge has ordered a fresh trial in a trade secrets case that touched on the permissible scope of law firmsā involvement in drafting expert reports.
Twenty-four former clients of Melissa Caddick who were defrauded out $24.5 million have filed a class action against the auditors of the self-managed superannuation funds they used to invest their retirement savings with the Sydney fraudster.
The owner of Melbourne’s iconic Hopetoun Tea Rooms, which opened its doors in the Block Arcade in 1892, has sued the historic shopping arcade for allegedly mimicking its business by opening a near-identical cafe in the same location.
A class action against the Northern Territory government has been sent back to the drawing board, with a judge striking out allegations that its funding of Aboriginal interpreting services discriminated against people in a remote Indigenous community.
KPMG has lost the latest round in its fight to transfer a class action over the collapse of steel giant Arrium from Victoria to NSW, with an appeals court finding that a group costs order made in the case could not travel across the border.