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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".
Dead or broke, the class action lawyers who schemed to defraud investors in failed Banksia Securities should not escape a $21 million judgment for damages and costs, a court has heard.
Businesses bringing a class action over Sydney's $3 billion light rail project are pursuing a bold new claim that the NSW government pay not only for damages related to their nuisance claims, but for the 40 percent commission the litigation's funder wants from a post-trial judgment.
A judge has thrown out an underpayments class action against NSW not-for-profit Life Without Borders for failure to advance the case with due diligence and slapped the lead applicant with costs for his "unreasonable" acts during the course of the proceeding.
A judge overseeing two underpayment class actions against supermarket chain Romeo’s has declined to vary a settlement agreement to provide for distribution by Christmas, saying plaintiff firm Adero Law had not taken “all reasonable steps” to facilitate the payments.
Three of the Big Four banks have agreed to pay a total of $126 million to settle class actions on behalf of up to one million customers who were sold consumer credit insurance.
Law firm Levitt Robinson is poised to bring a class action against the Western Australia government on behalf of detainees in the state's Banksia Hill detention centre as reports of excessive use of force and restraints emerge.
The former chief executive of Commonwealth Bank has told a court internal auditors raised issues with CBA's anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing compliance four years before AUSTRAC took action that saw the bank's share price plummet.