Nuix has lodged an appeal of a ruling finding it owes $20 million before its insurers will cover its legal bills for lawsuits over its $1.8 billion float.
A judge has hacked Maurice Blackburn’s promised cut of an $87 million settlement in a class action against Hino Motors, saying the 24.66 per cent group costs order previously approved by the court would result in a “disproportionate return” to the firm.
A judge has criticised the “unacceptably complex” trial of two regulatory cases and two underpayments class actions against Coles and Woolworths, delivering a ruling whose significance for the workers is not yet clear.
The applicant in a class action by former RAMS franchisees can’t intervene in proceedings by ASIC against the defunct Westpac mortgage unit, with a judge finding the outcome of the ASIC case will not affect the class action.
A judge has questioned why group members in a shareholder class action against Crown Resorts must wait until mid-2026 to receive the first slice of a $73 million settlement, which has already been paid by the casino operator.
A class action over the Morrison government’s Robodebt scheme has settled for $548.5 million, the largest class action settlement in Australia’s history, on the back of damning revelations in a royal commission report released after the class action originally settled for $112 million.
Two failed shareholder class actions against Commonwealth Bank have been returned to a judge to decide if ‘no transaction’ claims can still be pursued, a move CBA argues is a way to keep alive cases that are “truly dead”.
Junior doctors in Tasmania are the latest to bring a class action seeking compensation for years of alleged unpaid overtime work at the state’s major hospitals.
The shareholder leading a class action against failed fund manager Blue Sky Alternative Investments has lost a bid for a split trial it accepted was novel, despite arguing the usual course for trials in securities cases was “misconceived”.
IC Markets has prevailed in a fight with the applicant in a class action against the brokerage firm, which sought to personalise a notice to group members advising them of the case.