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Reclusive billionaire James Packer will be grilled by the WA royal commission into Crown Resorts this week, just as Crown faces a six-week trial lodged by shareholders over the arrest of 19 China-based employees.

2 billion settlement between robodebt victims and the federal government while blasting the scheme for being a "shameful chapter" in public administration.Justice Bernard Murphy on Friday said the use of flawed income averaging tools to raise debts caused vulnerable people financial hardship, distress and anxiety.

A judge has approved a $1.2 billion settlement between robodebt victims and the Australian Government while blasting the scheme for being a shameful chapter in public administration.

The Federal Court heard that as part of the Robodebt scheme, the federal government unlawfully raised $1.73 billion in debts from 433,000 people.

The Federal Court heard that as part of the robodebt scheme, the federal government unlawfully raised $1.73 billion in debts from 433,000 people.

The settlement adds $112m interest to the $1.76bn in unlawful debts the commonwealth has agreed to wipe

Why youll spot the rich and famous at English country house hotels this summer For the wealthy, theres nothing more calming than being surrounded by your tribe - and theyre coming out of hiding to these rural hotspots Monkey Island Estate in Bray, Berkshire In just over a week, many of the UK’s best loved country house hotels will reopen for the first time since December. While for some, this news will be eclipsed by the lifting of travel restrictions to a handful of foreign countries deemed ...

Largest women’s health class action decision upheld By Jerome Doraisamy|05 March 2021 A landmark decision from November 2019 has been upheld, delivering findings in favour of thousands of women whose “lives were destroyed”. Landmark judgment In November 2019, Justice Anna Katzmann of the Federal Court of Australia found in favour of women impacted by pelvic mesh implants sold by Johnson & Johnson and Ethicon which were “not fit for purpose”. The class action – “the largest women�...

Pelvic Mesh Implant Appeal Begins in Sydney A Sydney court will begin hearing a multinational pharmaceutical giant’s challenge to a landmark ruling that pelvic mesh implants caused debilitating injuries to hundreds of Australian women. The November 2019 ruling found three companies in the Johnson & Johnson group had acted negligently and concealed the true extent of complications from the pelvic implants. More than 1350 Australian women had joined the class action, launched in 2012. But Johns...

Vaginal mesh implants are at the centre of an appeal by Johnson & Johnson against a landmark Australian court ruling. Photograph: BBC Information brochures about vaginal mesh implants that left Australian women with debilitating pain and injuries weren’t the “be-all-and-end-all of warnings”, a lawyer for the manufacturers has told a court. Three federal court judges on Monday began hearing an appeal into a landmark 2019 ruling that Johns...