Carnival has settled a class action on behalf of passengers on a seven-day South Pacific voyage that became the “cruise from hell” when their vessel sailed into a Category 5 cyclone.
A “time poor” judge’s extensive copying and pasting of submissions and an offensive tweet by senator Pauline Hanson were at the centre of the week’s biggest litigation wins.
A shareholder class action against BHP over the 2015 Fundao dam collapse in Brazil has won a bid to add an extra three weeks to a six-week hearing to account for any evidentiary surprises.