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Slater & Gordon, ex-directors say Pitcher Partners responsible for financial reports
Facing cross claims by Pitcher Partners in two shareholder class actions alleging the accounting firm wrongly signed off on Slater & Gordon's financial reports ahead of a share price nosedive, the law firm and its ex-directors say they relied on the auditor to ensure the veracity of the statements.
Domino’s hit with underpayment class action
Domino's Pizza says it will defend a class action filed against it on behalf of thousands of delivery drivers and in-store workers who were allegedly systemically underpaid by franchisees over a five-year period.
WA parliament to introduce new class actions regime
The Western Australian parliament will this week introduce a new class actions regime modelled on the federal scheme, in a move the state Attorney-General says will enhance access to justice and improve efficiency.
Murray Goulburn pays $42M to settle shareholder class action
Dairy supplier Murray Goulburn has agreed to pay $42 million to settle one of two shareholder class actions over a 2016 profit forecast revision that sent the co-op's unit price falling more than 40 per cent in five days. 
Mark Elliott’s firm appeals costs ruling in Treasury Wine class action
A firm owned by solicitor Mark Elliot has launched an appeal challenging costs orders made against it in a stayed class action against winemaker Treasury Wine Estates.
RCR Tomlinson class actions get green light, multiplicity fight looms
Three shareholder class actions against RCR Tomlinson have been allowed to continued, setting up a class action beauty contest over who will lead the litigation against the failed engineering company.
Competing law firms agree to join forces in BHP class action
Rival law firms Phi Finney McDonald and Maurice Blackburn have offered to consolidate their competing shareholder class actions against BHP after prompting by the Full Federal Court, which said Friday it approved of the plan.
Investors can’t revive class action over Octaviar collapse
An appeals court has tossed a challenge to the dismissal of an investor class action against the Public Trustee of Queensland over a failure to predict the 2008 collapse of Gold Coast-based finance group Octaviar, finding that the class had run a case based on allegations outside of its claims.
Hundreds of privileged advice docs accidentally disclosed in Radio Rentals class action
Lawyers for Radio Rentals are trying to take back hundreds of potentially privileged documents in a consumer class action over the company's ‘Rent, Try, $1 Buy’ program, after they were accidentally disclosed as a result of an IT redaction error.
Funder can’t keep $2.2M of JustKapital’s Provident settlement cut in court
JustKapital has defeated a bid by funder Litman Holdings to keep $2.2 million remaining from its cut of a $44.25 million settlement in two class actions against the trustees of failed debenture issuer Provident Capital locked down in court until the resolution of a separate dispute between the two funders.