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 […]
Two Westpac units have made admissions and said they would not defend proceedings brought by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission over fees charged for […]
The courts are to be congratulated for swiftly adapting to the COVID-19 pandemic by introducing virtual hearings, but barristers told Lawyerly they were raring to […]