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A judge has panned ASIC’s bid to discover a wide range of privileged communications between super fund REST and various legal advisers, finding the regulator used a “very wide net” to catch nothing at all.
A judge has signed off on a $125 million settlement to resolve a shareholder class action against Crown Resorts over disclosures relating to its Chinese gambling operations, but has shaved $1 million from the funder's proposed commission.
Two psychiatrists who administered the controversial deep sleep therapy at the Chelmsford Private Hospital in the 1970s have won a Full Federal Court appeal in their defamation cases against publisher HarperCollins, with one of the cases being sent back for a re-trial.
Law firms running competing shareholder class actions against a2 Milk appear to have reached agreement to join forces, with a court order Thursday scrapping a contest to determine which case would proceed alone.
Car dealers that have brought a class action against General Motors over its decision to retire the Holden brand in Australia rejected offers of compensation totaling close to $5 million, according to court documents.
US institutional shareholders who joined a class action against Crown Resorts that settled on the eve of trial for $125 million are urging the Federal Court to slash the funder's commission by $4.65 million.
Nine claims that any harm a Sydney barrister suffered from its allegedly defamatory coverage of her battle for custody of Oscar the cavoodle was mitigated by the truth of the imputation that she exploited the famed social media pooch for her benefit.
Settlement talks in three class actions on behalf of women injured by allegedly defective pelvic mesh products have progressed “substantially”, a court has heard.
The former CEO of Nuix has shot down the suggestion of pre-trial mediation, which he said was unlikely to resolve his $180 million claim against embattled tech company.
A judge has denied Uber’s attempts to withhold documents in two lawsuits on the basis of legal professional privilege, finding many of the client-lawyer communications were made in furtherance of various offences by the rideshare giant at the centre of a class action lawsuit.