The judge overseeing a $180.4 million settlement in a stolen wages class action has railed against Shine Lawyers’ $10 million bill for the costs of registration, saying âsomething has gone seriously wrongâ.
As Mineral Resources and WiseTech face shareholder glare over accusations levelled at their billionaire bosses, it is Herbert Smith Freehills that their embattled boards have turned to.
United Petroleum will not face cross-claims by franchisees, with a judge calling the bid âa very colourable applicationâ to create overlap with a class action in the Supreme Court.
Investment manager Salter Brothers has sued XL Insurance, saying it has âunreasonably delayedâ covering the costs of defending a former clientâs lawsuit alleging misleading conduct.
ASIC has won its case against insurer HCF Life over a pre-existing condition term that was likely to mislead the public, but failed to convince the court that it was an unfair contract term.Â
AstraZeneca has brought court proceedings to block Australian drug maker Pharmacor from making a generic version of its heart attack drug Brilinta.Â
Santosâ plan to reach net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2040 was âlittle more than a series of speculationsâ, a shareholder group has said on the first day of trial in a landmark greenwashing case.
S&P is free to pay for a Rolls-Royce defence in “Rolls-Royce litigation” that alleges the agency engaged in fraud in assigning ratings to risky financial products, a judge has said.
Homes Victoria says the decision to demolish public housing towers in Melbourne — now the subject of a class action — took residents’ human rights into account, but has no documents to show it.
Former radio host Antoinette Lattouf will argue at trial that the ex-chair of the ABC, Ita Buttrose, and managing director David Anderson were involved in the decision to terminate her contract.Â