The ACCC will seek a record penalty of more than $250 million against Qantas for selling tickets on cancelled flights, saying companies were not “sufficiently” scared of the consequences of misleading consumers.
The ACCC has initiated court proceedings against Qantas for allegedly continuing to sell tickets on more than 8,000 flights that had been cancelled weeks earlier.
The former general counsel of UK-based transit payment provider Littlepay has lost her lawsuit alleging she faced a hostile workplace when she returned from maternity leave and was dismissed for making complaints about the company’s CEO and another global executive.
A traditional custodian has taken Woodside Energy to court in a bid to halt offshore seismic blasting for its Scarborough gas project, in a legal challenge similar to one that put Santos’ $4.7 billion Barossa project on ice.
Pinsent Masons has recruited an energy specialist from the embattled PricewaterhouseCoopers to grow its property team in Australia.
The Federal Court has granted a bid by plaintiffs in competing class actions against Downer EDI to transfer their cases to the Victoria Supreme Court, where a four-way contest will take place.
Norton Rose Fulbright has lured back two leading construction lawyers to the firm from Clyde & Co, along with a third leading construction and projects specialist.
Transport for NSW is weighing an appeal after a judge found it was liable to pay damages in a class action brought on behalf of small businesses over interference caused by the construction of Sydney’s $3 billion light rail network.
Uber and the applicants in class actions against the car service will head into mediation later this year, and only group members who sign up to join the cases will get a chance to share in the proceeds of any settlement that results from the talks.
The NSW government has been hit with a class action by Sydney Trains operations staff alleging a “systemic pattern” of underpayment and overwork.