The state of Victoria has agreed to pay $5 million to settle a class action over a public housing lockdown during Melbourne’s second COVID-19 wave in July 2020.
A judge has questioned an “unusual” bid by Noumi to shield over 3,000 documents, their titles and the identities of those who sent them to PricewaterhouseCoopers during a 2020 investigation into the food company’s financial position.
A judge has criticised a bid by the NSW government to access seven months of messages relating to drugs by the lead plaintiff in a class action over allegedly illegal strip searches at a Byron Bay music festival, saying they seemed “wholly irrelevant” to the case.
Infrastructure services company Downer EDI has been hit with a second shareholder class action following revelations of accounting irregularities that sent its share price tumbling.
Apple has denied it engaged in anti-competitive conduct in operating its App Store in a class action brought over allegedly inflated commissions on certain apps and in-app purchases.
Private health insurer Medibank has hit back at a class action over a data breach that affected close to 10 million customers, describing the claims as “hopeless.”
A shareholder class action against software company Nuix will go ahead as planned, after a stay application threatened to put the proceeding on ice pending the outcome of a separate case brought by ASIC.
The Victoria Supreme Court will not appoint a contradictor to weigh in on the reasonableness of a $1.25 million settlement offered by companies associated with the wife of a once prominent silk struck from the roll over the Banksia Securities class action scandal.
The applicants in a shareholder class action against the former Freedom Foods have failed in a bid to cross-examine Noumi’s inhouse counsel on affidavits swearing to the legal professional privilege of 3,000 documents, including material containing advice from accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers.
The state of Victoria has lost its appeal bid to stay a class action brought over the 2020 hotel quarantine debacle in light of a pending criminal action against the Department of Health.