Nando’s Australia has been criticised for claiming that its costs in a dispute against a single franchisee could reach close to $2 million, with an associate judge saying the bill could kickstart a precedent that leads to “the end of litigation as we know it”.
Labour hire firm CoreStaff will pay $6.4 million to settle a class action accusing it of using the promise of long-term work to lure workers to Australia from Papua New Guinea, only to terminate their employment agreements less than three years after they made the move.
The federal government has argued it should not have to pay the āvery high figureā former Royal Australian Navy sailors are seeking in compensation for a breached training contract that allegedly saw them denied a higher rate of pay.
A Full Federal Court judge has questioned whether law firm Maurice Blackburn was āsavvyā to the origins of New Yorkās famous Fearless Girl statue when it launched a copycat marketing campaign in Melbourneās Federation Square.
Noumi, formerly known as Freedom Foods, has agreed to pay $860,000 in Blue Diamond Growers’ costs as part of a $48 million settlement of a legal spat over a licensing deal to sell Almond Breeze milk, which the food maker unsuccessfully argued should be heard in Australia.
Melbourne farmers-turned-developers the Bozzo family have sued a national law firm for allegedly giving bad tax advice on the $3 billion Wyndham Vale development in Melbourne’s west, situated on 482 hectares of land the family purchased in 1994.
Avant Insurance has challenged a Federal Court judgeās interpretation of the Insurance Contracts Act in its second attempt to avoid liability for the defence costs of a plastic surgeon named in a class action brought over botched breast augmentations.
Macpherson Kelley will head to an eleventh-hour mediation in a negligence case over the execution of a 10-year service station lease agreement with Shell, after the court heard settlement talks were well progressed.
Australian Mercedes-Benz dealers behind a $650 million lawsuit over the car maker’s decision to move to a fixed-price agency model allege the car maker engaged Deloitte as a consultant so it could “spin” its real reasons for making the change.
A subsidiary of AMP has settled a retired financial planner’s lawsuit accusing the company of using āunfair tacticsā to avoid coughing up close to a million dollars owed under a buyout option exercised in November 2019.