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Fundraising company Appco has told a judge overseeing a $90 million sham contracting class action it is "running out of money" and wants to mediate the dispute as soon as possible.
An appeals court has slashed a $450,000 judgment against law firm HWL Ebsworth to $127,000, after finding a former partner who sued the firm for unfair dismissal had not lost the opportunity to seek other employment.
An email from the corporate regulator forwarded to a Perth businessman by his lawyer constituted proper notification that the executive had been disqualified, an appeals court has ruled in tossing a challenge to the method of service.
The judge overseeing a conflicted remuneration class action against Suncorp has allowed the class to bring an unconscionable conduct claim, but put the kibosh on the plaintiff's use of the phrase 'inter alia,' saying "only I get to use Latin".
German cladding manufacturer 3A Composites has again threatened to call for the de-classing of a class action brought over allegedly combustible cladding, slamming the case against it as "simply shambolic" and the conduct of the applicant as "utterly irresponsible".
Google has come out in defence of its privacy disclosures to Android mobile users in the face of landmark legal action by the ACCC, saying the consumer regulator's allegations of misleading conduct rely on an "artificial and incorrect" account of the way it informs users of the collection and use of personal location data.
A self-imposed cap on legal fees and a reduced funding cut of a $16.5 million settlement in a class action against failed construction company Forge Group was the right call by the law firm and the funder behind the case, a judge has said in his reasons for approving the deal.
The High Court will not hear an appeal by the ABC and Nine seeking to revive their truth defence in a defamation lawsuit brought by Chinese businessman Chau Chak Wing.
Boutique IP firm Pizzeys Patent and Trade Mark Attorneys has won its bid for preliminary discovery to pursue possible claims against two patent attorneys who left the firm to start their own competing business.
The State of Queensland will not appeal a ruling that found it, as well as the operators of two Queensland dams, were negligent in the 2011 floods in the Southeast region of the state that left over 2,000 homes destroyed.