Companies and government entities paid out less to settle class actions in 2023 than in the previous two years, with no mega settlements hitting their pocketbooks.
A $27.5 million settlement reached in a class action over the alleged unlawful detention of 240 Indonesian children has won court approval, but the applicant’s legal costs remain subject to negotiations.
A judge has refused a bid by the ACT Police Chief to intervene on behalf of the AFP in Shane Drumgold SC legal challenge to the findings of an inquiry into the prosecution of Brittany Higgins’ assault claims against Bruce Lehrmann, but has allowed six police officers to be joined to defend the findings.
The applicant in a nine-year-old class action over the government’s 2011 live exports ban has urged the Commonwealth to pay up to $900 million to settle the case, after earlier settlement efforts flopped.
The state of Queensland has urged the High Court to step in after a Federal Circuit and Family Court judge was held personally liable for a man’s false imprisonment.
A leading classĀ actionĀ firm may seek compensationĀ for those who were illegally detained after the High Court ruled that Australia’s system of holding individuals indefinitelyĀ in immigration detentionĀ is unlawful.
A judge has approved the first settlement in dozens of negligence cases against the Minister for Home Affairs on behalf of refugees detained by the Australian government on the island of Nauru.
A human rights group has lost its legal bid to compel the federal government to bring home Australians stuck in Syrian camps, with a a judge finding the Minister for Home Affairs has āno controlā over their detention.
A man awarded $300,000 after he was unlawfully imprisoned for contempt has won his legal costs from the judge who jailed him. But a court has rejected his bid to recoup the costs paid to a damages expert in his case, finding he gave her āincomplete, inaccurate and unreliableā instructions.
An advocacy group has appealed a judgment that found it was “legally open” to federal environment minister Tanya Plibersek to approve the extension of two mega coal mines in New South Wales.