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Twigg family lawsuit against Pitcher Partners settles for $25M
Accounting 2025-02-17 3:30 pm By Cindy Cameronne

A lawsuit alleging accounting firm Pitcher Partners was involved in race car driver Max Twigg’s misappropriation of $127 million from his family has settled for $25 million plus costs. 

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Second former Star executive settles with corporate cop
Trials 2025-02-17 11:15 pm By Andy Sidler

Star’s former managing director Greg Hawkins has reached a mid-trial settlement with the corporate regulator in its case over the casino operator’s alleged lax money laundering compliance. 

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NAB resolves discrimination suit alleging ‘boys club culture’
Financial Services 2025-02-17 3:55 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

NAB has settled a suit by a former exec who alleged she was discriminated against and bullied, including having a baseball bat brandished at her.

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Carnival wins approval of settlement in P&O ‘cruise from hell’ class action
Class Actions 2025-02-13 11:49 pm By Christine Caulfield

A court has signed off on a $2.4 million settlement in a class action against Carnival over a seven-day South Pacific voyage that sailed into a Category 5 cyclone.

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Silk settles fight with Telstra over email bounce-backs
Telecommunications 2025-02-10 11:43 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

A senior barrister has reached a settlement with Telstra in his suit alleging the telco flagged his emails to Bigpond addresses as spam and failed to send them. In a suit filed in July in the Federal Circuit and Family Court, Brisbane-based silk Anthony Morris KC alleged that since an unknown date, estimated to be…

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Defunct Westpac unit RAMS settles trade mark dispute with fund manager
Intellectual Property 2025-02-06 11:54 pm By Julia Kanapathippillai

Defunct Westpac mortgage broker RAMS has reached a settlement in a trade mark stoush with fund manager Real Asset Management.

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Noumi, Deloitte to pay $43M to settle shareholder class action
Class Actions 2025-02-04 12:42 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

Noumi and auditor Deloitte will pay $43 million to resolve a class action alleging the company misled investors about its inventory, and the class action will make a play for a $5 million penalty agreed to in ASIC proceedings.

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$3M class action settlement over Nine’s Palm Island coverage wins approval
Class Actions 2025-01-31 10:11 pm By Cindy Cameronne

A judge has approved a $3 million settlement in a class action against Nine over its coverage of litigation related to the 2004 Palm Island riots. 

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Group members to get half of $42.25M CIMIC class action settlement
Class Actions 2025-01-29 11:13 pm By Andy Sidler

Group members will receive no less than 50 per cent of a $42.25 million settlement reached in a shareholder class action against engineering firm CIMIC.

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Legal fees to eat up more than half of COVID-19 class action settlement
Class Actions 2025-01-21 10:22 pm By Sam Matthews

Legal fees will eat up more than half of a $3.5 million settlement reached in a class action over deaths at a NSW aged care facility during the COVID-19 pandemic. 

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