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Class action settlement totals skyrocketed to over $900 million last year, and one law firm negotiated the lion's share, with $672 million in settlements under its belt.
Cricket Australia must hand over documents to Seven West Media as the TV network weighs potential legal action for damages against the league over the quality of the 2020-2021 summer cricket season.
The judge overseeing a conflicted remuneration class action against Suncorp has locked in a trial date for May next year over the protests of the applicants, saying it was "not a good look" for class actions to "hang" around.
A judge has refused to sign off on $13.8 million in fees sought by law firm Maurice Blackburn as part of a $44.5 million settlement in a class action against Woolworths, saying the amount was "intuitively out of the range" of what was a reasonable legal bill for the case.
A judge has raised questions about an estimated $13.6 million in legal costs to be sought in an upcoming approval hearing on a $44.5 million settlement reached in a shareholder class action against Woolworths.
A $100 million shareholder class action against supermarket giant Woolworths has settled for $44.5 million, a few days before a 15-day trial was set to begin.
Trial is set to begin February 2 in a $100 million shareholder class action against Woolworths over a February 2015 profit downgrade that allegedly led to a drop in the company's share price.
A judge has criticised a revised opt out notice in a class action against Suncorp over allegedly conflicted remuneration and again slammed the funder backing the case for sending a "disturbing" letter to group members contrived to achieve a commercial advantage.