A contradictor in two pelvic mesh class actions against Johnson & Johnson has opposed Shine Lawyers recovering $100 million in costs from a $300 million settlement, which a judge has preliminarily found is not fair and reasonable to group members.
A litigation funder has abandoned its case seeking to prevent counsel retained by the lead applicant in the settled Montara oil spill class action from providing independent legal advice.
Santos has lost its challenge to a judge’s decision to revoke approval for its $4.7 billion offshore gas project because Tiwi Islanders were not properly consulted about the project.
The funder bankrolling the settled class action against oil exploration company PTTEP wants a court-ordered injunction against a barrister to prevent him from giving independent legal advice to the lead applicant about his claim.
A judge has raised doubts about ex-commando Heston Russell’s barrister’s claims that it “screamed from the page” of an allegedly defamatory ABC article that her client committed war crimes.
Federal prosecutors pursuing a case against Members Equity have lost an appeal of a ruling that threw out half the charges against the direct bank as time barred, with an appeals court finding the ASIC Act imposes a hard deadline for bringing a criminal case of misleading or deceptive conduct.
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.