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Innovation patents: the end is nigh
Expert Insights 2021-08-23 4:29 pm By Editor

New standalone innovation patents will no longer be able to be filed after 25 August 2021. By now, most people are aware that the Australian […]

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It’s the insurers, not class actions, driving D&O liability insurance premiums
Expert Insights 2021-07-29 10:51 am By Editor

Brick by brick, the claim that funded class actions are the primary driver of rising directors’ liability insurance premiums is being dismantled. Even more precarious […]

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Courts see record number of class actions as shareholder proceedings drop in significance
Expert Insights 2021-05-20 10:30 am By Editor

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 […]

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Sexual harassment: now squarely a Work Health and Safety issue
Expert Insights 2021-04-07 10:23 pm By

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 […]

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The case for a Justice Fund
Expert Insights 2021-03-23 10:44 pm By

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 […]

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The top 10 class action predictions for 2021
Expert Insights 2021-03-11 9:58 pm By

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 […]

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Can we please have the 2020 ATO back?
Expert Insights 2021-02-22 3:59 pm By

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. […]

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High Court soon to decide issue of competing class actions
Expert Insights 2021-02-04 8:48 pm By Editor

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 […]

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Court of Appeal upholds declaration that funding agreement is valid
Expert Insights 2020-11-13 9:25 pm By Editor

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 […]

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COVID-19 economic crisis, class actions and funded litigation
Expert Insights 2020-11-11 12:30 pm By Editor

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 […]

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