A judge overseeing discovery in a class action against global engineering company CIMIC Group has called out the legal profession for an “extraordinary” new trend of relying on solicitors’ affidavits in claiming privilege over evidence.
Flight Centre has been hit with legal action on behalf of employees accusing the travel giant of short-changing its workers through commission-based payments.
A shareholder class action against Woolworths related to its downward revision of a 2015 profit guidance is seeking emails and other documents from a slew of current and former company executives, including the grocery chain’s former Chairman and CEO, who departed in the wake of disappointing financial results.
The litigation funder backing a consumer protection class action against mortgage lending and investment firm RMBL Investments will earn a step-up commission of 30% if the case continues into September, according to a proposed common fund order.
Accounting firm Pitcher Partners, which is facing two shareholder class actions over auditing work for Slater & Gordon, is considering filing claims of its own against the law firm’s current auditor, Ernst & Young.
Construction giant Lendlease has been hit with a class action over allegedly inadequate disclosures relating to its engineering and services business, which includes the NorthConnex tunnel road project in Sydney.
A judge has rejected a bid by former directors of Slater & Gordon to throw out cross claims brought by Pitcher Partners in two shareholder class actions alleging the accounting firm wrongly signed off on the law firm’s financial reports ahead of a share price nosedive, saying it was possible Pitcher Partners’ claimed reliance on representations by the directors was reasonable.
Maurice Blackburn is investigating a possible shareholder class action against construction company Lendlease over allegedly inadequate disclosures relating to its engineering and services business, which includes the NorthConnex tunnel road project in Sydney.
A judge who entertained an anti-suit injunction in the AMP class action jurisdictional battle that set off what another judge called an “unseemly debacle” has ordered the applicant behind the injunction bid to pay costs.
Sirtex has been ordered to turn over information related to a possible acquisition to law firm Maurice Blackburn, which is leading a shareholder class action against the life sciences company.