Payouts in class actions in 2020 largely kept pace with the previous year despite the financial strain of the COVID-19 pandemic, with companies and other […]
The law firm that led an unfunded class action against the Federal government over the controversial Robodebt scheme will ask the court to approve up […]
The applicant in the settled Robodebt class action has warned a judge he will have a “dispute on [his] hands” if the government presses an […]
The parties in a class action against the Federal Government over the controversial Robodebt scheme have reached an $112 million settlement as the first day […]
The son of Banksia class action funder Mark Elliott, who has been accused of complicity in a fraudulent scheme to maximise the profits of the […]
A routine practice by the funder behind the scandal-ridden Banksia class action of deleting emails, documented in a letter by his solicitors just days before […]
Lawyer Alex Elliott was complicit in a plan by his late father to mislead the court and group members in the Banksia class action, to […]
A judge has refused an application by the Federal Government to appeal the expansion of the Robodebt class action pleadings despite finding the case was […]
A judge has given the green light for the applicants in the Robodebt class action to file an amended statement of claim on the eve […]
Barrister Norman O’Bryan has accepted that he should be struck from the roll of legal practitioners after dropping his defence mid-trial against claims of professional […]