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Holden’s owner, General Motors, is facing a class action over alleged defects.

Holden faces class action over alleged transmission defects

Law firm Maurice Blackburn alleges Holden’s parent company, General Motors, sold cars with faulty transmissions.

  • Tung Nguyen

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Patrice Turner arrives at the Victorian Supreme Court in 2023.

Australian women lose class action over controversial medical device

Justice Andrew Keogh said chronic pelvic pain and abnormal uterine bleeding commonly affected women of reproductive age.

  • Aisha Dow
Harvey Norman executive chairman Gerry Harvey during the Harvey Norman AGM held in Olympic Park, Sydney on Wednesday.

‘We all get hammered’: Harvey Norman’s court battles don’t faze Gerry

The veteran retailer has slammed Australia’s legal system, and said people won’t stop shopping at Harvey Norman as it fights allegations of misleading customers.

  • Jessica Yun
WiseTech chief executive Richard White resigned last month.

Embattled WiseTech faces class action lawsuit from shareholders

Just weeks after its CEO stepped down, the software firm is now facing Supreme Court action alleging misleading conduct and a breach of disclosure obligations to investors.

  • David Swan
Western Bulldogs president Peter Gordon.

Ex-Bulldogs president Peter Gordon assists Pucovski concussion case, requests medical records

The prominent lawyer has provided advice to the AFL on its duty of care in concussion matters and is now assisting Will Pucovski, whose promising cricket career was cut short after he sustained repeated blows to the head.

  • Daniel Brettig
Joey Orrock was still figuring out how to be comfortable in her own body when she was strip searched by police at a music festival in 2019.

Joey wanted a fun day out. She ended up being stripped naked and humiliated

Thousands of people strip searched at music festivals may be owed compensation from NSW Police.

  • Riley Walter and Nick Newling
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Harvey Norman chairman, Gerry Harvey.

Bad timing: Big business’ image tarnished by Harvey Norman class action

All it took was a class action lawsuit to put a kink in a nation-unifying call from the Business Council to cease and desist with business bashing.

  • Elizabeth Knight
The drugs involved in the investigation are Nexium or Nexium 24HR, Losec, Somac, Pariet and Zoton FasTabs.

Class action looms for these popular over-the-counter medicines

After a landmark $US425 million settlement in the United States, the drugs are being investigated in Australia over alleged links to stomach cancer and kidney damage.

  • Kayla Olaya
Norman O’Bryan.

Former top barrister Norman O’Bryan charged with fraud over class action scheme

The former senior counsel, from one of Victoria’s notable legal families, is alleged to have rorted claimants in the Banksia Securities class action scheme out of millions of dollars.

  • Sarah Danckert
.Rio Tinto’s Gudai-Darri iron ore mine in the Pilbara

Lawyers mull class action over Rio Tinto sexual harassment claims

Two years after a damning report into sexual discrimination, assault and bullying at Rio Tinto was released, an investigation into the claims could lead to a lawsuit.

  • Claire Ottaviano

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