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.
The funder bankrolling a class action by residents allegedly displaced by the construction of the $16.8 billion WestConnex tunnel has abandoned the case.
A class action targeting Westpac subsidiary BT Funds and Tal Life Insurance was discontinued after documents discovered by the companies caused funder Woodsford to bow out.
A ‘junk’ insurance class action against Suncorp unit AAI wants an initial trial to deal with the claim — absent a sample group member — that car dealers made purchasing a policy necessary for a loan.
A Queensland trucking company is facing a class action by owners of $2.4 million in cargo aboard a freight train that was derailed in a fatal collision with a truck on New Year’s Eve.
Expert evidence is not meant to “provide a judge with comfort”, a judge has found in rejecting evidence from two experts in flex commissions class actions against Westpac and Macquarie.
The High Court has been asked to take up an appeal by insurers over coverage for the class action defence costs of Opal Tower’s consultant engineer.
Optus has struck back at ACMA’s claim that a cyberattack that exposed the information of around 10 million customers was not a “highly sophisticated” operation.
The Reject Shop is fighting an underpayments class action’s bid to reformulate its claims, which the discount retailer said could saddle with an extra 18 months of liability.
The High Court has been asked to revive a class action over Sydney’s light rail construction and weigh in on whether litigation funders can claim their commissions as damages.