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DePuy class action member loses challenge to compensation, 12 years after settlement
Class Actions 2024-07-05 10:41 pm By Sam Matthews

A group member in a class action against Johnson & Johnson unit DePuy International has lost his bid to challenge his compensation determination 12 years after the case settled, with a judge finding that the independent counsel conducting the determination was not bound by the rules of procedural fairness.   

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Law firms take aim at rival’s ‘copied’ pleadings in battle to run IC Markets class action
Class Actions 2024-07-04 11:08 pm By Sam Matthews

In a contest to run a class action against International Capital Markets over risky derivative products, a proposed consolidated proceeding has taken aim at third-to-file Banton Group for allegedly copying its case. 

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Santos wins bid for EDO communications as it pursues costs in Barossa pipeline case
Energy & Natural Resources 2024-07-04 11:01 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

Santos has largely succeeded in its bid for documents from the Environmental Defenders Office and expert witnesses in a failed case challenging the construction of the oil and gas company’s $5.6 billion Barossa pipeline.

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Delta Building appeals $1.5M fine in National Gallery bid rigging case
Appeals 2024-07-04 12:07 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

Industrial technology company Delta Building Automation has appealed a $1.5 million penalty for attempting to rig a bid for construction work on the National Gallery of Australia, a penalty five times the amount it claimed it should face.

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Lawyers weigh in on moratorium on climate disclosure litigation
Environment 2024-07-04 10:52 pm By Cindy Cameronne

A Greens senator has called for reducing a proposed immunity from climate disclosure litigation from three years to one after lawyers, including the NSW Bar Association, blasted the moratorium. But some law firms say the immunity doesn’t go far enough and should shield companies and their officers from continuous disclosure-related claims.

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Lendlease’s $1.3B sale of residential portfolio to Stockland raises red flags: ACCC
Construction 2024-07-04 1:01 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

Lendlease’s plan to sell a portfolio of residential community projects to Stockland for $1.3 billion has raised concerns for the ACCC, which worries the transaction may substantially lessen competition in the supply of residential masterplanned community housing lots in four regions.

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Baker McKenzie partner joins Clayton Utz to bolster corporate practice
Corporate 2024-07-04 11:45 pm By Christine Caulfield

Veteran corporate lawyer Jim Peterson has left Baker McKenzie to join the Clayton Utz team as a legal consultant in Brisbane.

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PwC to pay $8.25M to settle class action over bond prospectus
Class Actions 2024-07-03 11:30 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

PricewaterhouseCoopers has agreed to pay $8.25 million to settle a class action on behalf of Axsesstoday bondholders over an allegedly misleading bond prospectus, bringing the settlement total to $9.5 million after a group of insurers agreed to pay $1 million to settle the class action’s claims.

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Nine fights Westpac’s bid to block media from reporting on ex-head of strategy’s case
Employment 2024-07-03 11:44 pm By Christine Caulfield

The Federal Court must guard against “exceptions by accretion” when weighing Westpac’s application to prevent the public from accessing documents filed in a lawsuit by the bank’s former head of strategy, which has resolved in a confidential settlement, a judge heard Wednesday.

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EDO makes changes to board amid scrutiny of litigation over Barossa pipeline
Environment 2024-07-03 2:50 pm By Christine Caulfield

The Environmental Defenders Office has replaced its chair and appointed a former judge to its board as it undergoes a review of its processes in the wake of an unsuccessful case against Santos over the oil and gas company’s $5.6 billion Barossa pipeline.

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