The fate of class actions against Volkswagen in the sprawling Australian case over the car maker’s diesel emissions cheating scandal will be the subject of a major court battle starting Wednesday.
Leading fundraising company Appco Australia Group is challenging a judge’s decision to let a $85 million wage case move forward as a class action.
In the wake of a major ruling approving a wage class action against fundraiser Appco, more “sham” contracting suits were launched Monday, this time against two international direct marketing companies.
A ruling imposing a record $2.5 million fine against the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union had “fundamental flaws”, a lawyer for the union told the Full Federal Court Thursday.
Employment Minister Michaelia Cash vowed Thursday to challenge a subpoena ordered by the Federal Court to appear as a witness in a case over last year’s raids on the offices of the Australian Workers’ Union.
A judge has lifted an injunction against an Optus ad campaign after ruling that Telstra failed to make its case that the ‘Empires End’ campaign was misleading or deceptive.
Tractor company Agrison has been added as a defendant in a class action brought by victims of the 2015 bushfire near Ballarat that ripped through 4,000 hectares and destroyed 12 homes.
Austrian Airlines has resolved a case brought by a brain surgeon who claimed his pinky finger was permanently damaged after it was caught in a fold-out tray table during a flight.
Generic drug giant Actavis Global has reached a settlement with AstraZeneca in a long-running patent dispute over blockbuster cholesterol medicine Crestor that wound its way to the High Court.
The Queensland Supreme Court has frozen more than $200 million in personal assets of mining tycoon and former MP Clive Palmer, in a case brought by the liquidators of failed Queensland Nickel.