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 “something has gone seriously wrong”.
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 “a very colourable application” to create overlap with a class action in the Supreme Court.
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.
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.