The High Court has refused special leave in a failed class action against Volkswagen over allegedly defective Takata airbags.
A Melbourne orthopaedic clinic has lost its bid to register the name âMelbourne Bone and Joint Clinicâ as a trade mark, with a judge finding the phrase was just an ordinary combination of words.Â
It’s a case of dĂ©jĂ vu in a class action against engineering services company Worley, with shareholders heading back to the appeals court after losing a second trial in their drawn out fight over disclosure breaches.
Online broker International Capital Markets has been hit with a second class action for selling âexcessively riskyâ derivative products known as contracts for difference to retail investors.Â
A judge has signed off on a 27.5 per cent group costs order in a consolidated shareholder class action against Medibank over a cyberattack that affected 10 million customers, noting the âsignificant riskâ taken on by the two plaintiff law firms running the action.Â
US consumer goods giant 3M is facing a possible class action on behalf of members of the Australian Defence Force who allegedly suffered hearing loss from defective combat earplugs.
Mining magnate Clive Palmer has lost an appeal seeking to throw out two criminal cases over a takeover bid and payments to his political party, with an appeals court finding the challenge was an abuse of process.
The judge who found that disgraced soldier Ben Roberts-Smith committed war crimes in Afghanistan did not show âfull consideration of the presumption of innocenceâ in his defamation case, an appeals court has heard.Â
Mercedes-Benz has been hit with a competing class action over alleged defeat devices designed to cheat on diesel emissions tests, over a year after the first class action was filed.
A former PricewaterhouseCoopers partner has sued the firm for denying him retirement payments for moving to alleged competitor DLA Piper and for his alleged involvement in the firmâs tax leaks crisis.