A judge overseeing a class action against engineering company UGL has agreed to extend a class closure order to give the parties a second chance to resolve the case in mediation, but not without expressing concerns that the order did not have the intended effect of encouraging settlement at the first sit-down.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has launched a safety review of bouncers, rockers and inclined sleep products for babies after at least 74 infant fatalities were reported in the United States.
A defamation case brought by Wolf Creek actor John Jarratt against the Daily Telegraph will now proceed, following his acquittal last week on rape charges.
A Federal Court judge has appointed a costs referee in a shareholder class action against two units of dairy co-op Murray Goulburn over a 2016 profit forecast revision which recently settled for $42 million.
A former Commonwealth Bank executive facing criminal commercial bribery charges has been ordered to hand over a number of documents in a US lawsuit brought by IT company Computer Sciences Corporation, but has avoided orders compelling him to take the witness stand.
Medical device manufacturer American Medical Systems has reasserted that it cannot face claims under Australian consumer laws over its allegedly defective vaginal mesh products because it only supplied the products to a US subsidiary.
A self-described âvigilant lawyer against big companiesâ has attempted to make submissions regarding the costs incurred in the Sirtex shareholder class action settlement, with legal fees and fundersâ commissions chewing up half of the $40 million settlement figure. Maurice Blackburn took the lead after two shareholder class actions relating to the biotech companyâs revised sales…
Malaysia Airlines has reached a settlement with five Australian families whose loved ones were killed when flight MH17 was shot down over eastern Ukraine by a Russian missile five years ago.
The former directors of Murray Goulburn, who admitted in proceedings brought by the ACCC to aiding in false representations the dairy co-op made to farmers about the farmgate milk prices it would pay during the 2015-16 season, are now facing a separate lawsuit by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission.
The ABC and News Corp are bringing legal action to challenge warrants authorising controversial raids by Australian Federal Police on the headquarters of the public broadcaster and the home of political journalist Annika Smethurst.