A judge has rejected an application by the plaintiffs in two class actions against Freedom Foods and Deloitte to run their cases side-by-side, but said […]
Recent changes to the law requiring funded class actions to be registered as managed investment schemes have complicated the question of how best to resolve […]
The High Court has declined to hear a case that challenges the power of judges to make common fund orders at the close of litigation, […]
The power to make common fund orders in class actions is a question before the High Court a second time, but the justices aren’t likely […]
Courts have power to order oral discovery of potential witnesses ahead of trial, according to the judge overseeing two 7-Eleven class actions by franchisees, but […]
The lead plaintiffs in two class actions against 7-Eleven have appealed a decision rejecting the very first Federal Court application for oral discovery, which would […]
A Federal Court judge overseeing two franchisee class actions against 7-Eleven has heard a landmark application for pre-trial oral discovery that could create another tool […]
Convenience store chain 7-Eleven has asked the High Court to find courts do not have the power to make common fund orders at settlement or […]
The Full Court Federal Court has declined to answer a question posed by 7-Eleven as to whether common fund orders can be made on settlement […]
The High Court’s majority reasoning in the decision nixing common fund orders at an early stage of a class action leads “inexorably and inevitably” to […]