Uber has agreed to settle a long-running court battle for $271.8 million, finally giving taxi and hire car drivers the compensation they deserve, lawyers say.
WA Labor amassed a significant fundraising advantage this past financial year as unions, law firms and sitting members opened their wallets to fill the party's coffers.
Wealth manager AMP has been hit with a class action lawsuit for allegedly charging superannuation fund members unjustifiably high fees for an extended period of time.
Crown Resorts will "vigorously defend" Federal Court proceedings after the casinos operator was hit with a class action alleging it did not give shareholders enough information about risks it was taking in China.
Federal Court proceedings have been issued in the shareholder class action against Commonwealth Bank of Australia, which is being funded by Perth-based IMF Bentham.
The boss of beleaguered law firm Slater & Gordon has quit and the board will be cleaned out under a shake-up that passes almost full ownership of the company to its lenders.
Retail giant Woolworths could face a $100 million shareholder class action for allegedly failing to properly inform investors it would not meet its profit growth forecasts in the 2014-15 financial year.
Crown Resorts should have known its focus on drawing Chinese high rollers to its casinos was a hugely risky strategy, according to a law firm seeking to launch a shareholder class action against James Packer's gaming giant.
Thousands of aggrieved Slater & Gordon shareholders will be represented in a $250 million-plus class action against the law firm for wrongdoing including allegedly "blindsiding" them with bad news.
Slater & Gordon is a step closer to being served with shareholder class action papers after JustKapital Litigation Partners and Woodsford Litigation Funding joined forces to fund proceedings against the embattled law firm.
