Law Firms

A judge has been asked to approve a revised $18.1 million settlement in an underpayments class action against Sydney Trains, reached after the registration of 260 new group members pushed the settlement above the agreed cap.

A judge has signed off on an agreed $10.3 million penalty against Mercer Super for failing to inform ASIC about investigations into serious issues, after the judge requested more information on how the penalty had been arrived at.

Clothing giant H&M has been hit with a costs order after a judge found it was unreasonable for it to maintain a suppression application in a Fair Work case brought by its former head of human resources in Australia.

A shareholder class action against former directors of collapsed mining company CuDeco has settled on the eve of trial, a year after KPMG reached a settlement.

The developer of a $50 million apartment complex in Brisbane’s West End has lost an appeal against builder Devine Constructions’ claim for $3.7 million, as the developer seeks damages for alleged delays caused by water ingress.

The latest new suits feature billion-dollar infrastructure brawls, fresh employment claims against Telstra and Woolworths, and regulators flexing their enforcement muscle.

The engineering firm behind the Kwinana energy transformation hub in Western Australia wants the High Court to hear a union's case alleging it fraudulently failed to disclose information to the Fair Work Commission.

A class action against Johnson & Johnson over alleged ineffective cold medicine has attacked the pharmaceutical company’s application for soft class closure, telling a court the process would produce useless data and only need to be repeated. 

A judge has ruled a class action on behalf of First Nations people in NSW whose children were allegedly unlawfully removed can bring a claim alleging group members were treated unfairly because of their race.

The owners of Millmerran Power Station and Commodore Coal Mine in Queensland are appealing a $30 million win for contractor BUMA, and have won their bid to challenge subsequent costs orders.