March 2021 marked the 29th anniversary of the operation of Australia’s first class action regime; as this regime commenced in the Federal Court of Australia […]
Safe Work Australia has released new national guidance on preventing and responding to workplace sexual harassment (Guide). The release of the Guide is just one […]
Although most of us will remember 2020 as a year of enormous disruption and difficulties, it likely represents the zenith of tax administration in Australia. […]
The class members in the Gladstone Fisheries class action and their funder LCM Operations have successfully upheld a declaration confirming the enforceability of the funding […]
In Wigmans v AMP the High Court will shortly deliver judgment on the vexed issue of class actions that compete to represent substantially the same […]
The Australian class action landscape has undergone significant change in the last five years and that will continue in 2021 and beyond. Corrs’ class actions […]
In December last year the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services handed down its report concerning litigation funding and the regulation of the […]
It is now trite to say that the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in both a medical and economic crisis for the world. We continue to […]
In July and August 2020, we conducted personal interviews with 30 legal practitioners who are members of the Federal Court Class Action Users’ Group or […]
Recent changes in the Australian regulation of third-party funders will have a dramatic effect on the funding of certain disputes. Although these changes were accompanied […]