Apple has foreshadowed a challenge in the event two law firms seek to work together on a consolidated class action that alleges both Apple and Google engaged in anti-competitive conduct in operating their app stores.
The High Court has dismissed an application by accounting giant KPMG to transfer a class action over the collapse of mining company Arrium from Victoria to NSW.
Nine has failed to persuade the High Court to take up a special case that would argue the Racial Discrimination Act infringes the broadcaster’s implied right of political speech, in a blow to its defence against a class action over its coverage of litigation related to the Palm Island riots.
Avant Insurance has lost its bid to challenge a ruling which put it on the hook for indemnifying a plastic surgeon in class action proceedings over allegedly botched breast augmentations at a defunct NSW clinic.
ANZ and Westpac have failed in their bid for a contradictor to weigh in on a contingency fee bid in two class actions, as the law firm that lost the first ever application for a group costs order tries again.
Liquidators of failed tech company GetSwift have foreshadowed an objection to a $1.5 million settlement going to shareholders in a class action that a judge has labelled a “disaster”.
The operator of the Royal Perth Hospital has brought legal action against Griffith Hack alleging the law firm contributed to the “dishonest and fraudulent design” of a leading researcher to transfer the intellectual property rights to a stem cell manufacturing method developed inhouse.
A personal injury law firm has been ordered to itemise a “very substantial” $470,000 bill more then four years after it was rendered to a client, who was asked by the firm’s in-house barrister to sign a backdated costs disclosure agreement.
The High Court has agreed to hear prosecutors’ appeal of a “manifestly inadequate” $1.35 million penalty against an engineering firm for bribing foreign officials in Vietnam to secure $10 million in infrastructure contracts.
The High Court has turned down the appeal of the former Blue Star Helium CEO who was hit with a $40,000 penalty and four-year ban after the company failed to disclose to shareholders the identity of the buyer behind a botched sale of Texas oil assets.