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A judge has declined a contradictor's calls to send an application for a common fund order in a class action against 7-Eleven, which recently settled for $98 million, to the Full Court.
A judge has scolded Slater & Gordon and two Westpac subsidiaries for a "disgraceful" privilege spat in a class action over allegedly excessive superannuation fees that he said had "gone badly off the rails".
Clyde & Co made an “inextricable” oversight in preparing an unpaid works claim, causing a Sydney-based sandstone excavator to lose millions of dollars, according to a cross claim in a case brought by the law firm for unpaid fees.
A former partner at accounting firm Pitcher Partners has told a court that he had issues working with Ernst & Young on an audit of law firm Slater & Gordon, calling the Big 4 firm "uncooperative".
Five years into a preliminary discovery application for a potential patent infringement lawsuit over a biosimilar of its Enbrel medication, Pfizer has partially succeeded in obtaining further documents from Samsung Bioepis.
A judge has thrown out a lawsuit that argued the funding for a class action against two Queensland energy generators didn't comply with new regulations targeting litigation funders, and said a landmark judgment that held class action funding agreements were managed investment schemes was conceptually incoherent and ripe for a Full Court challenge.
A former partner at accounting firm Pitcher Partners has testified during a shareholder class action trial that he should have questioned statements about the viability of Slater & Gordon’s $1.2 billion Quindell acquisition, but ran out of time because its audit of the firm went “off the rails”.
A judge has knocked back Colonial First State’s bid to warn around 100,000 group members that even if they opt out of a class action against the wealth management firm they might still be bound by the outcome of the case.
A judge has denied former Attorney-General Christian Porter access to material about a crucial meeting involving Jo Dyer, the friend of a woman who accused him of rape, which he sought to bolster his appeal of the removal of silk Sue Chrysanthou from his now-settled defamation case against the ABC.
Accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers is facing claims of professional negligence by insolvent tertiary education provider Cornerstone for allegedly assisting the company's former director in overstating the company's revenue and unlawfully extinguishing his debt.