NAB will fight a bid by a $78 million class action over the collapse of Walton Construction to add serious fraud allegations in the four-year-old case, which a judge said has been “mired in a procedural mess”.
A judge who found that Ben Roberts-Smith committed war crimes has recused himself from deciding whether the Office of the Special Investigator can access evidence in the former SAS corporal’s defamation case for its own investigation into war crimes in Afghanistan.
ANZ has lodged an application asking the Australian Competition Tribunal to reverse the competition regulator’s rejection of its $4.9 billion tie-up with Queensland-based Suncorp.
After surviving multiple strike-out bids, a class action against Carnival over norovirus outbreaks on its Sun Princess cruise ship is still facing a “lurking” issue about a potential stay in relation to the claims of a subset of group members.
The judge hearing a lawsuit by senator Linda Reynolds against the partner of former Liberal staffer Brittany Higgins over allegedly defamatory social media posts has urged the parties to resolve the matter outside of court, citing the “psychological strain” and “emotional stress” of litigation.
Delivering on one of its enforcement priorities, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission has taken two units of insurer IAG to court for allegedly misleading home owners insurance customers about loyalty discounts.
A judge has approved a $41.45 million settlement in a pelvic mesh class action against manufacturers Covidien and TFS but has put off deciding on the costs of the firm that ran the case, saying it is “next to useless” when law firms appoint their own costs consultants.
A $26 million settlement has been reached in a class action against Ardent Leisure alleging it misled shareholders about safety measures that were in place ahead of the 2016 tragedy at its Dreamworld theme park in Queensland which claimed four lives.
The maker of Mother energy drinks has won an appeal of an IP Australia decision, succeeding in its bid to prevent a Victoria-based company from registering Kangaroo Mother as a trade mark for beverages.
Deloitte may seek confidentiality orders over the amount it agreed to pay to settle a shareholder class action over its audits of collapsed construction group Hastie.