The Commonwealth has argued that a long-running dispute involving drug makers Otsuka, Bristol-Myers Squibb and Generic Health should be put on ice until the High Court rules in a separate matter.
The judge overseeing a $180.4 million settlement in a stolen wages class action has railed against Shine Lawyers’ $10 million bill for the costs of registration, saying “something has gone seriously wrong”.
United Petroleum will not face cross-claims by franchisees, with a judge calling the bid “a very colourable application” to create overlap with a class action in the Supreme Court.
ASIC has won its case against insurer HCF Life over a pre-existing condition term that was likely to mislead the public, but failed to convince the court that it was an unfair contract term.
Santos’ plan to reach net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2040 was “little more than a series of speculations”, a shareholder group has said on the first day of trial in a landmark greenwashing case.
S&P is free to pay for a Rolls-Royce defence in “Rolls-Royce litigation” that alleges the agency engaged in fraud in assigning ratings to risky financial products, a judge has said.
Clive Palmer’s nephew has applied to the High Court for review of a decision rejecting his bid to dodge contempt proceedings, arguing he did not submit to the court’s jurisdiction.
The funder bankrolling a class action by residents allegedly displaced by the construction of the $16.8 billion WestConnex tunnel has abandoned the case.
A class action targeting Westpac subsidiary BT Funds and Tal Life Insurance was discontinued after documents discovered by the companies caused funder Woodsford to bow out.
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.