In its bid for a 30 per cent group costs order, the applicant in a class action against Insurance Australia Group says the percentage shouldnāt be compared to lower proposed rates — as low as 14 per cent — in a battle to run a class action against Star.
A class action has challenged a decision that found the age pension does not discriminate against Indigenous Australians because of differences in life expectancy, arguing the Full Court settled for formal rather than substantive equality.
Two class actions against Victorian aged care providers on behalf of families of residents who died due to alleged failures during the COVID-19 pandemic have appealed a ruling that rejected their bid for insurance and financial information to assist in mediation.
A judge who previously described as a “schemozzle” a law firm’s attempt to drop a class action over Telstra’s COVID-19 vaccine policy has refused a bid to keep secret Clive Palmer’s involvement as funder of the aborted litigation.
A commercial barrister with expertise in insolvency law has been appointed as an associate judge of the Supreme Court of Victoria.
The state of Victoria is making a bid to suppress its defence in a class action brought over the 2020 hotel quarantine fiasco, as it faces a āsubstantially alteredā indictment in a related criminal proceeding.
A shareholder class action has been filed against medical glove manufacturer Ansell Limited following an earnings guidance downgrade blamed on COVID-19.
A barrister is taking a dispute over his $320,000 bill to the High Court, but a judge has cast doubt on the appealās prospects of success.
A group representing Australian parents has taken EnergyAustralia to court for allegedly misleading over 400,000 consumers by marketings a product involving a carbon offset scheme as ‘carbon neutral’.
The High Court has dismissed a constitutional appeal by Irish insurer Zurich, clearing the way for a class action over an allegedly defective New Zealand apartment block to proceed in the NSW Supreme Court.