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MLC Super class action settles for $64.25M
Financial Services 2024-12-06 12:54 pm By Cindy Cameronne

A class action on behalf of 330,000 super members has settled against the trustees of the MLC Super fund, just days after another superannuation class action flopped.

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‘Replete with error’: Firm fights $5.4M security order in Macquarie class action
Class Actions 2024-11-28 11:13 pm By Sam Matthews

A law firm is challenging an order that it pay $5.4 million in a class action against Macquarie Leasing as security for the lender’s costs, saying concerns about its borrowing capacity were “theoretical and speculative.”

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Pacific Werribee centre owners get preliminary trial in $200M defects spat
Construction 2024-11-25 4:32 pm By Cindy Cameronne

The co-owners of Pacific Werribee shopping centre in Victoria have won their bid for a preliminary trial in a suit against Probuild Constructions and several engineering companies over $200 million in alleged structural defects.

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Fletcher can’t pry into judge’s background as law firm class action head
Class Actions 2024-11-18 11:18 pm By Christine Caulfield

Evidence sought by Fletcher Building from a judge’s former law firm as part of the construction company’s recusal bid is inadmissible, a court has ruled.

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AAI class action wants to press mandatory insurance claim at trial
Class Actions 2024-10-25 11:26 pm By Andy Sidler

A ‘junk’ insurance class action against Suncorp unit AAI wants an initial trial to deal with the claim — absent a sample group member — that car dealers made purchasing a policy necessary for a loan.

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Judge’s ‘past life’ comments on class action reform no basis for recusal, court told
Class Actions 2024-10-10 11:51 pm By Cindy Cameronne

A bid to disqualify a judge who spoke publicly about proposed reforms to class action law from hearing a class action against Fletcher Building is out of touch with reality, a court has heard.

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Judge from Maurice Blackburn should not hear Fletcher class action, court told
Class Actions 2024-10-02 11:20 pm By Cindy Cameronne

A judge should be disqualified from hearing a class action against Fletcher Building because of his previous association with the funder, as well as public remarks he made as a plaintiffs’ solicitor, a court has heard. 

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Sleeping Duck shareholder rejected $4M settlement in failed oppression suit
Securities 2024-09-04 11:32 pm By Andy Sidler

A Sleeping Duck shareholder has been ordered to pay the company’s costs on an indemnity basis in its failed oppression suit, with a judge finding that its decisions to reject Sleeping Duck’s buy-out offers of roughly $4 million were unreasonable.

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Insurers win another fight over COVID-19 business interruption claims
Insurance 2024-08-20 11:26 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Several insurers have won a dispute with two Melbourne businesses about whether an industrial special risks policy can cover losses suffered during COVID-19 lockdowns, with a judge finding the policy did not respond just because there were recorded cases in Melbourne. 

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Firm accused of copying rivals’ class action pleadings loses IC Markets beauty parade
Class Actions 2024-08-02 10:13 am By Cat Fredenburgh

Two judges have declined to award carriage of a class action against International Capital Markets over risky derivative products to a firm accused of plagiarising its rivals’ pleading.

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