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A judge has allowed Woolworths to include details of its internal pay review processes in an opt out notice to be sent to disgruntled current and former employees who have launched a class action against the supermarket giant.
A group of late opt out notices by group members in a class action over IAG insurance, who were egged on in part by a 'corporate warfare' campaign by claims management service Claimo, could result in IAG pulling the plug on a $138 million settlement.
A judge has questioned fintech company Squirrel Super’s defence in ASIC’s case alleging it made false and misleading statements about returns on property investments, saying it “looked like a bit of a stretch” at first glance.
A judge has slugged the CEO of a Sydney property development company with a $32,500 penalty for underpaying a live-in nanny, but he aimed his wrath at the media for having "wrongly branded" the businessman as someone who engaged in modern slavery.
A judge overseeing a class action against Bayer-owned Monsanto over its allegedly carcinogenic weedkiller, Roundup, has declined to rule on the admissibility of expert evidence in a hearing ahead of trial next year, despite concerns about the independence of the expert witnesses for the class.
The Commonwealth Bank of Australia has told a judge there’s no chance it will admit to ASIC’s allegations that it accepted conflicted remuneration through the sale of its Essential Super product, likening the matter to ASIC’s failed ‘Wagyu and shiraz’ case against Westpac.
Bendigo and Adelaide Bank has lost its appeal of a ruling that revoked its 22-year-old 'community bank' trade mark, with the Full Federal Court agreeing that the phrase has an ordinary signification and cannot be trade marked for the bank's services.
A fight is brewing over allegedly deficient discovery provided by pop star Katy Perry in her trade mark dispute with Sydney fashion designer Katie Perry, with a judge hearing that text messages from the singer's phone that may be relevant to the case have not been handed over.
Fortnite developer Epic Games has filed a lawsuit against Google for alleged anti-competitive conduct and misuse of market power, after launching a similar claim against Apple in November.
In another victory for ASIC in a case stemming from the banking royal commission, a judge has ruled that TAL Life Limited breached the Insurance Contracts Act after denying coverage to a cancer patient and threatening to recover $24,000 it had already paid to her.