New requirements that funded class actions be run as managed investment schemes will throw up myriad new questions for the courts, with lawyers predicting novel […]
A Victoria Supreme Court judge will hear the second ever application for a group costs order in a shareholder class action against G8 Education, saying […]
A judge has rejected an application by the plaintiffs in two class actions against Freedom Foods and Deloitte to run their cases side-by-side, but said […]
Recent changes to the law requiring funded class actions to be registered as managed investment schemes have complicated the question of how best to resolve […]
A ruling this week that rejected the first application for a group costs order in a class action because the applicants were better off with […]
A judge has signed off on a proposal by two law firms to jointly run a consolidated class action against Allianz over add-on car insurance, […]
Saying the interests of class action members “must be given primacy”, a judge has rejected the first bid for a group costs order in a […]
A landmark ruling on a bid for a contingency fee in a class action is close, a judge said Tuesday as she heard argument in […]
Consolidation of two consumer class actions against Allianz would do away with competition in a contest to lead a single case that would force a […]
Car giant General Motors, which faces a class action by former Holden franchisees, wants to strip the case of class status, arguing that “idiosyncrasies” in […]