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Customers of mortgage lending and investment firm RMBL say they were “shocked” when the company’s chief financial officer allegedly called them to say “he hoped” they would opt out of an excessive fees class action that had been filed against the firm.
Maurice Blackburn has partly prevailed in an appeal of a judge's decision to put the brakes on its shareholder class action against BHP while greenlighting a competing case brought by Phi Finney McDonald, with an appeals court ordering the rival law firms to negotiate a deal to consolidate their litigation.
Woolworths' knowledge of its poor performance on price perception among shoppers in 2014 is at the centre of a $100 million shareholder class action against the retailer, a court heard Friday.
Blasting the battle of competing class actions as a fight for the "commercial interests" of litigation funders not class members, a judge has called on lawyers for two shareholder actions against Brambles to settle the dispute themselves.
BHP Billiton is facing the possibility of a second shareholder class action over the Fundao dam failure at its mine in Brazil, but the cases may be put on hold pending the outcome of homicide charges against company employees.