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‘Worst of all possible worlds’: Judge rejects Blue Sky shareholder’s bid for novel split trial
Securities 2025-09-02 11:17 pm By Cindy Cameronne

The shareholder leading a class action against failed fund manager Blue Sky Alternative Investments has lost a bid for a split trial it accepted was novel, despite arguing the usual course for trials in securities cases was “misconceived”.

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Class action gets hands on Phoslock docs produced in AFP probe of China operations
Class Actions 2025-09-02 11:32 pm By Christine Caulfield

Phoslock Environmental Technologies, which has produced hundreds of thousands of documents to federal police as part of an investigation of the company’s China operations, must hand over the bundle to a class action.

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Blue Sky class action not fleeing to Victoria after High Court solicitors’ CFO ruling
Class Actions 2025-08-21 11:20 pm By Sam Matthews

A class action against Blue Sky Alternative Investments won’t seek to transfer the case to contingency fee-friendly Victoria despite a High Court ruling that put the kibosh on solicitors’ common fund orders. 

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Cudeco class action judge threatens to set trial down if KPMG settlement not finalised
Class Actions 2025-08-19 3:02 pm By Cindy Cameronne

A judge hearing a class action over the collapse of mining company Cudeco has questioned why, despite an in-principle settlement being reached with auditor KPMG, the parties have not sought to formally dismiss the claim. 

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Murray Darling authority slams class action’s ‘incoherent’ duty of care claim
Trials 2025-08-14 11:18 pm By Cindy Cameronne

The public body in charge of managing the Murray Darling’s water resources has slammed as “incoherent” a class action’s claims that it owes a duty of care to protect farmers and irrigators against economic loss.

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Murray Darling class action a ‘world away’ from failed climate change case, court told
Trials 2025-08-11 11:55 pm By Cindy Cameronne

On the first day of trial, a court has heard a class action over alleged negligent management of water flowing through the Murray Darling system is a “world away” from a climate change class action that recently failed at trial. 

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High Court to hear developer Mayfield’s appeal in case against NSW Ports
Appeals 2025-08-08 11:13 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

Mayfield Development has been granted the High Court’s leave to make its argument that derivative Crown immunity does not apply to NSW Ports, in a seven-year-old competition case. 

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High Court shoots down solicitors’ CFO in Blue Sky class action
Class Actions 2025-08-06 10:54 am By Cindy Cameronne

The High Court has unanimously found the Federal Court has no power to allow solicitors to take a cut of a settlement or judgment in a shareholder class action against Blue Sky, saying it would be contrary to rules against contingency fees in NSW. 

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Maurice Blackburn prevails in Hyundai, Kia class action beauty parade
Class Actions 2025-07-23 11:55 pm By Sam Matthews

A judge has awarded carriage of class actions against Hyundai and Kia to Maurice Blackburn after declining to allow a sixth offer by competing firm Banton Group, saying re-bids outside the orderly process of carriage fights must be “carefully assessed”.

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Judge orders longer soft class closure in KPMG class action over Arrium collapse
Class Actions 2025-07-23 11:53 pm By Sam Matthews

The judge in a class action against KPMG and ex-Arrium directors has made soft class closure orders, but chosen the longer period offered by the defendants, saying the risk of locking out unregistered members was no reason to pick an “unrealistically early” date to re-open the class.

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