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The consumer watchdog has filed court proceedings against agricultural equipment supplier Agrison for allegedly misleading tractor purchasers about its warranties and after-sales services.
Luxury car maker BMW has told the NSW Court of Appeal that the courts do not have power to make common fund orders at any stage of a group proceeding, arguing that such orders would distort the scope of the class action regime by encouraging litigation funders to pursue lawsuits.
Hungry Jack's is doubling down on its claim that its 'Big Jack' burger has 25 per cent more beef than rival McDonald’s 'Big Mac', denying the US fast food company's allegation that its beefier burger brag, made in a recent cheeky television ad, is misleading and deceptive.
A showdown over two competing class actions against AMP is set down for December, and the applicants will have to persuade the judge overseeing the cases that they should not be consolidated.
A Sydney rabbi who told the Royal Commission into Child Sexual Abuse that he did not know touching a child's genitals was a crime has lost his appeal of a ruling throwing out defamation proceedings he brought against Nationwide News and SBS.
The operator of the Stock Swami Twitter handle has responded to a defamation case brought by mining entrepreneur Tolga Kumova, saying a reasonable reader would not consider his tweets a reliable source of factual information about the businessman.
Dropping a class action against accounting firm Pitcher Partners over Slater & Gordon's disastrous acquisition of UK professional services firm Quindell will leave group members no worse off than they were when the proceeding first commenced, the Federal Court has heard.
Construction information service provider BCI Media Group has won its bid for preliminary discovery against property data analytics firm CoreLogic Australia, which is suspected of breaching copyright by gaining unauthorised access to BCI's subscription platforms and data scraping for leads.
A fight is brewing over whether US and UK passengers aboard the Ruby Princess should be part of a class action against cruise operators Carnival and Princess Cruise Lines over their handling of a deadly coronavirus outbreak on the ship that has been linked to at least 20 deaths.
US cryptocurrency maker Ripple Labs has hit back at an intellectual property lawsuit brought by the Australian company behind the ubiquitous PayID mobile banking system, saying its PayID trade mark is neither substantially identical nor deceptively similar to the Aussie mark.