The High Court will hear a challenge by Western Power to an appeals court judgment which found that the state-owned electricity supplier breached its duty […]
The first order allowing plaintiffs lawyers to take a cut of the proceeds of a class action will guarantee group members in a case against […]
Saying the funding arrangement would eliminate the possibility that legal costs ate up the majority of any return to group members, a judge overseeing a […]
A judge hearing the second ever application for a group costs order in a shareholder class action against early childhood education provider G8 Education has […]
As the courts open up after 18 months of online hearings, junior barristers who were recently called to the bar may be apprehensive at the […]
Western Power is not entitled to palm off the legal costs of defending a class action after an appeals court found it was negligent in […]
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 […]
Westpac has been ordered to pay $3 million after two subsidiaries admitted misleading hundreds of superannuation customers about the financial adviser fees they were charged, […]
Western Power was negligent in causing the January 2014 Perth Hills bushfire which destroyed 57 homes, an appeals court has found, putting the state-owned electricity […]
The stage is set for a beauty parade of two shareholder class actions against Freedom Foods and Deloitte, and the judge overseeing the cases has […]