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Litigation funder Regency Funding has sought leave to intervene as a major player in one of two challenges to the courts' powers to issue common fund orders in class actions, but it might have a fight on its hands.
Medical device maker AMS has told the Federal Court that claims in a class action against it over allegedly defective pelvic mesh implants did not meet the standard for a representative proceeding.
A class action against Westpac over allegedly excessive insurance premiums has been put on ice after funder JustKapital filed an application to stay the case in the wake of the bank's appeal challenging the court's power to make a common fund order.
Westpac is contesting a subpoena in a class action over allegedly excessive life insurance premiums for documents from Deloitte that may reveal how the bank chose the policies it offered.
The judge overseeing a class action against American Medical Systems over allegedly defective pelvic mesh implants has rejected the medical device maker's bid to alter the start date for a sub-group of class members.
The litigation funder at the centre of a challenge by Westpac to the Federal Court's power to make common fund orders faced a fiery judge in a tense exchange Friday, after it revealed it was weighing a bid to pause a class action against the bank until after the appeal.
Medical device maker American Medical Systems, which is facing a class action over allegedly faulty pelvic mesh implants, has taken a page from the Ethicon pelvic mesh defence playbook, calling on the court to restrict the dates for group membership.
A federal judge has lit a fire under the law firm leading the Westpac life insurance class action, saying if it wanted to apply for a stay while the bank appeals his common fund order, it should do so "immediately".
Westpac is challenging a judge's order that gives the funder backing a class action over life insurance premiums a 25 percent cut of any recovery.