Law Firms

Waste company Aussie Skips and its boss have binned their appeal of a multimillion dollar penalty for a price-fixing plot with rival Bingo Industries.

P&O Cruises has resolved a group of personal injury cases by passengers who were seriously hurt in a bus collision in Vanuatu in 2016.

The federal government has agreed to pay up to $202 million to settle a class action on behalf of First Nations people in the Northern Territory who were allegedly denied wages owed for work performed over a nearly 40-year period.

Domino’s has been stung with shareholder class action accusing the pizza giant of misleading the market about its expected performance in Japan. 

A Sydney law firm has filed a class action accusing private equity-owned medical device maker Exactech of supplying faulty joint implants that were subject to deterioration due to a packaging defect, caused serious medical complications in patients. 

Westpac’s head of audit and risk has taken her employer to court, claiming the bank shut down her compliance concerns about its shuttered mortgage broking subsidiary RAMS and stigmatised her as a “troublemaker” after she made repeated inquiries into the matter.

Bruce Lehrmann has flagged a bid to claw back $117,000 he says his former legal team was not entitled to pay out of a trust account in his failed defamation case against Network Ten, saying he intends to use the sum to pay counsel to sign off on his appeal. In a case management hearing…

A class action targeting Westpac subsidiary BT Funds Management and Tal Life Insurance is set to be discontinued less than a year after it was filed.

Over objections from the ACCC, a judge has struck out the regulator’s entire case against Meta over scam cryptocurrency ads on Facebook after it clarified that each allegedly misleading ad should be a separate contravention.

The peak body for community legal centres has flagged a declassing application in a group proceeding alleging Knowmore Legal Service provided negligent, “cookie cutter” advice to survivors of institutional child sexual abuse.