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Colonial can’t shield lawyer emails due to class action applicant’s ‘joint privilege’
Class Actions 2023-06-09 10:16 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Wealth management firm Colonial First State has lost its bid to shield emails with internal counsel about investment options for its FirstChoice super fund after […]

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Are the courts really plagued by duplicative class actions?
Analysis 2023-05-15 12:39 pm By Christine Caulfield

A fed-up judge has vented his frustration with the problem of competing class actions in a move that appears to punish the second filed case […]

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‘Plagued with competing class actions’: Judge stays latecomer Medibank case for now
Class Actions 2023-05-12 1:26 pm By Sam Matthews

A judge aggrieved by the “plague” of competing class actions in the courts has temporarily stayed a second data breach class action against Medibank, and […]

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Noumi class action judge questions ‘unusual’ privilege bid over docs seen by Ashurst, PwC
Class Actions 2023-05-08 10:20 pm By Cindy Cameronne

A judge has questioned an “unusual” bid by Noumi to shield over 3,000 documents, their titles and the identities of those who sent them to […]

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‘Don’t even waste my time’: Judge trashes NSW’s bid for messages in music festival class action
Class Actions 2023-05-05 2:42 pm By Cindy Cameronne

A judge has criticised a bid by the NSW government to access seven months of messages relating to drugs by the lead plaintiff in a […]

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Class actions pile up over Medibank data breach
Privacy & Cybersecurity 2023-05-05 6:45 am By Christine Caulfield

Private health insurer Medibank has been served with a second class action over a data breach exposing the personal details of 10 million customers. The […]

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Class action can’t grill Noumi lawyer on legal privilege claims over PwC docs
Securities 2023-05-02 11:27 pm By Christine Caulfield

The applicants in a shareholder class action against the former Freedom Foods have failed in a bid to cross-examine Noumi’s inhouse counsel on affidavits swearing […]

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Optus hit with class action over data breach
Privacy & Cybersecurity 2023-04-21 1:00 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Optus has been hit with a class action on behalf of current and former customers whose personal information was exposed in a massive data breach […]

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Essure contraceptive ‘safe and efficacious’, Bayer tells class action trial
Trials 2023-04-12 9:20 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Bayer told a jury that clinical trials from the 1990’s to 2014 showed its Essure birth control device was “safe and efficacious”, as the pharmaceutical […]

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Bayer can’t dismiss Essure injuries as ‘common women’s symptoms’, class action trial told
Trials 2023-04-11 9:07 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Pharmaceutical giant Bayer cannot write off debilitating chronic pain and bleeding which patients allegedly experienced after being implanted with Essure contraceptives as “common women’s symptoms”, […]

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