A judge has ordered two law firms that filed competing shareholder class actions against failed Blue Sky Alternative Investments and auditor EY to team up to run a consolidated proceeding, despite opposition by one firm.
The West Australian government has flagged a bid to scuttle mining magnate Clive Palmer’s latest lawsuit claiming he can sue the state for up to $30 billion over mining tenements in the Pilbara.
The law firm that filed a second securities class action against failed Blue Sky Alternative Investments and auditor EY has moved swiftly to stay a competing class action brought three months ago.
A second securities class action has been filed against failed Blue Sky Alternative Investments and auditor EY alleging financial reports materially overstated the health of the asset manager ahead of its collapse three years ago.
Virgin Australia’s insurers may be dragged into a class action accusing the airline of failing to disclose its true financial position in a 2019 prospectus for a $324 million capital raising.
A judge has criticised the applicant in a class action against failed asset manager Blue Sky Alternative Investments for filing court documents late, as he prepares to grapple with an imminent competing class action.
A judge has stayed a class action on behalf of 6,000 women allegedly injured by defective pelvic mesh devices after Astora Women’s Health filed for bankruptcy in the United States, but questioned how the company had suddenly come to have no assets.
A judge has rejected a bid to add an insolvent trading claim to a $78 million class action over the collapse of Walton Construction, citing “extraordinary” delays in the three-year-old case.
A judge has questioned AMP Financial Planning over whether it breached court orders to compensate customers after finding the firm failed to prevent a now banned adviser from churning life insurance for higher commissions.
Luxury car makers BMW and Mercedes-Benz are facing separate $100 million class actions over the alleged use of cheat devices on emissions tests.