Melinda Jackson

Class action settlements hit major milestones last year, with the year’s largest settlements totalling more than $1.5 billion and one case resolving for a historic $548.5 million.

The applicant in an immigration detention class action that was discontinued four years ago wants to revive the proceedings, arguing the solicitors and the court misunderstood a High Court decision as dooming the case. 

The federal government has flagged its intention to bring a strike-out application to narrow the group member definition in a class action by single women and same-sex couples who were denied Medicare rebates for IVF.