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Ex-Norton Rose manager appeals loss in bullying case
A former Norton Rose Fulbright digital marketing manager is trying to revive her allegations that the firm fired her after she complained of bullying and sex discrimination by her supervisor.
Sims class action funder, lawyers stake claim to 57% of settlement
The funder and law firm running a shareholder class action against recycling company Sims Limited are seeking more than 57 per cent of a $29.5 million settlement for commission and costs, including an insurance policy to cover the risks of losing the case.
Citigroup settles $300,000 lawsuit over alleged conflicted financial advice
Citigroup has settled a lawsuit alleging it gave a customer conflicted financial advice to invest most of her savings in “risky” products, despite her being an inexperienced investor with limited funds.
Claims pared in class action over sinking Sydney homes
Sydney homeowners bringing a class action over homes they claim are sinking into the ground won’t be able to recoup alleged losses from the engineering company that certified the lots for development.
Ex-Bellamy’s director Jan Cameron drops capital gains tax challenge
Jan Cameron, founder of Kathmandu and former director of baby food company Bellamy's, has abandoned her lawsuit alleging a Caribbean Islands-based trust didn't owe capital gains tax on the 2018 sale of 2.5 million Bellamy's shares.
‘What are solicitors doing writing press releases?’ Tolga Kumova trial judge asks
A judge has questioned why solicitors representing Twitter personality Stock Swami published a media release about his “backstory” two days before trial in a defamation case brought by mining investor Tolga Kumova.
Readymix could be pulled into $300M case over ‘defective’ Lane Cove development
A judge has indicated that he may allow concrete supplier Readymix to be drawn into a five-year-old dispute over alleged defects in the construction of Sydney's billion-dollar Lane Cove tunnel.
Biggin & Scott infringed copyright by copying source code, Full Court finds
Real estate marketing platform Campaigntrack has won an appeal of a ruling in an important copyright case over its cloud-based software that accused real estate agency group Biggin & Scott of authorising reproduction of the software’s source code.
Zurich rails against ‘exorbitant exercise’ of power in NZ apartment class action
Irish insurer Zurich Insurance has appealed a judge’s finding that a class action filed against it in the NSW Supreme Court over a defective New Zealand apartment block could go ahead, arguing the finding was the result of federal overreach.
Virgin moves to throw out ‘unintelligible’ lawsuit over COVID-19 jab mandate
Virgin Australia will seek to throw out a case brought by former employees over a COVID-19 vaccine mandate, which a lawyer for Qantas and Jetstar, which are also named in the suit, said “breaks every pleading rule”.