Landmark High Court decisions in class actions against Toyota and Ford on how damages should be calculated for defective vehicles will spark more consumer class actions, a plaintiff lawyer told Lawyerly.
Shine Lawyers wants to claim $24.5 million in legal costs in a stolen wages class action on behalf of Northern Territory First Nations people, a sum a judge called “eye watering”.
The corporate cop has launched a formal investigation after the airing of tax evasion allegations against Mineral Resources’ billionaire founder, Chris Ellison.
Vittoria has defeated claims in an intellectual property battle that it infringed on rival Koninklijke Douwe Egbert’s trade mark for the design of its Moccona instant coffee jar.
The competition regulator has given its blessing to the $8.8 billion merger of Chemist Warehouse and Sigma Healthcare, subject to a promise that franchisees will be free to terminate their contracts.
The ACCC has red flags about the acquisition of Japanese healthcare business I’rom Group by private equity behemoth Blackstone.
Crypto company Filecoin Foundation can’t dodge a suit by a developer who says she was fired after complaining that a portion of her wages was paid in Filecoin tokens.
The High Court has upheld appeals in class actions against Ford and Toyota over the calculation of damages for reduction in value of defective vehicles.
A judge has dismissed the corporate regulator’s case alleging former Dixon Advisory director Paul Ryan breached his director’s duties.
Slater and Gordon’s former HR head has filed a lawsuit claiming she was axed after raising concerns that the firm deliberately underpaid over $300,000 in leave entitlements.