RAMS Strikes Deal To End Ex-Franchisee Class Action

By Esther Linder

Former Westpac subsidiary RAMS Financial Group has reached an in-principle settlement in its class action suit brought by ex-franchisees in the Federal Court of Australia in Sydney.

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Plus500 Fails To Stop Class Action On Void Arbitration Clause

By Esther Linder

The Full Court of the Federal Court of Australia has dismissed an appeal by online trading platform Plus500 and upheld the refusal to stay a consumer class action with the court holding that an arbitration clause was an unfair contract term and therefore void.

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CommSec Wins $75k Costs From Persistent Plaintiff

By Daniel Wilson

A New South Wales Supreme Court judge on Wednesday granted CommSec a $75,000 indemnity costs order against a self-represented litigant, saying he wrongly pushed ahead with a creditor's claim over the cancellation of his trading account despite previous unsuccessful lawsuits in Queensland, the ACT and before the NSW Supreme Court and repeat warnings his case was lacking.

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Ex-Keystone's Chiodo Files $200M Construction Fraud Suit

By Emma Knuckey

Paul Chiodo, the embattled former Keystone director, launched a lawsuit by his property development firm seeking more than $200 million from construction company City Built, its director Robert Filippini, family members of Filippini and three related businesses over an alleged years-long scheme of falsified and inflated invoices from subcontractor and suppliers with money allegedly off-loaded to family members to buy luxury cars and property.

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Justice Rowena Orr To Lead Victorian Court of Appeal

By Olivia Thomson

Victorian Court of Appeal Justice Rowena Orr, known for her role as senior counsel in the Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry where her performance earned her the nickname 'Shock and Orr', has been appointed as the court's new President.

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