A judge has imposed a $21 million penalty on Uber for misleading customers through platform-wide cancellation messages and estimated fares on its Uber Taxi option, $5 million short of the âvery substantialâ sum jointly agreed by the parties.
Carnival unit P&O Cruises has been hit with a class action by passengers who say their holidays were ruined by norovirus outbreaks on its Sun Princess cruise ship.
Former Liberal staffer Bruce Lehrmann has retained defamation lawyer Mark O’Brien to mull legal action against media outlets over coverage of comments following an aborted rape trial.
Expanding their campaign to recoup alleged unpaid overtime pay for junior doctors, law firms Gordon Legal and Hayden Stephens & Associates have launched two new class actions against hospital operators.
US multinational firm K&L Gates has grown its ranks in Australia, luring three partners from HWL Ebsworth to join its corporate team.
Insurers will file de-classing applications in four class actions on behalf of small businesses seeking coverage under business interruption policies for losses flowing from COVID-19 restrictions after their test cases largely failed.Â
Jaguar Land Rover is staring down a second class action on behalf of consumers who purchased cars with allegedly defective diesel filters over an 11-year period.
Boral has won its bid to shield from shareholders in a class action three investigative reports, including one by accounting giant EY, concerning financial irregularities in the construction company’s North America windows business.
A judge has rejected barrister Gina Edwardsâ âsomewhat speculativeâ bid to issue interrogatories to Nine, weeks out from trial in a defamation case brought over the media companyâs coverage of her custody battle for famed social media pooch Oscar the cavoodle.
A contradictor in two pelvic mesh class actions against Johnson & Johnson has opposed Shine Lawyers recovering $100 million in costs from a $300 million settlement, which a judge has preliminarily found is not fair and reasonable to group members.