A judge has awarded $735,000 in damages to nine group members in a class action representing 200 former Royal Australian Navy sailors alleging the Department of Defence broke a promise to train them in engineering, finding they were owed compensation for the lost chance to earn higher wages.
A judge has declined to hear an interlocutory stoush about the scope of a shareholder class action against engineering company Worley before an upcoming trial, saying the case, which has been on foot since 2015 and was appealed to the High Court, needed “some finality”.
A judge whose landmark rulings in climate change litigation have been hailed by environmental groups has been chosen to lead Australia’s peak law reform body.
National Australia Bank has been revealed as one of HWL Ebsworth’s clients whose information was compromised when the law firm was hacked by a Russian-linked group.
A judge has approved a $22 million settlement in a class action on behalf of a First Nations community that alleges their land was contaminated by toxic firefighting foam at a military base in Jervis Bay, citing the “very real” risks the case would face at trial.
A judge has removed two liquidators as administrators of a defunct company after finding they abused the court’s processes by demanding $69 million in damages from the directors of water filtration business Billi.
A judge has approved a settlement with former directors of collapsed advisory firm Linchpin Capital under which insurer RiverStone will pay $6.3 million, which will be used to fund the investor class action’s claims against AIG.
Nine is battling to adduce evidence concerning the reputation of Euro Pacific CEO Peter Schiff, as it scrambles to minimise the damages it will owe after abandoning its substantive defences in defamation proceedings by the bank boss.
The Victorian government has elevated an Associate Justice who has overseen class actions and a senior counsel who assisted the Victorian royal commission into Crown Resorts to serve as judges on the Supreme Court of Victoria.
A judge has approved the discontinuance of an underpayments class action against Tandem, saying it would be “inutile” to press forward with the case after the telco contractor entered administration.