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IVF provider Genea to face representative complaint over data breach
Privacy & Cybersecurity 2025-11-03 10:30 am By Cat Fredenburgh

A class action law firm is set to file a representative complaint against fertility services provider Genea over a data breach that led to sensitive patient information being published on the dark web.

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Group members to get half of $110M BHP shareholder class action settlement
Class Actions 2025-11-03 11:56 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

The funder and law firms that ran a shareholder class action against BHP over the collapse of the company’s Samarco Fundão dam in Brazil will seek approval for deductions that will see half of the $110 million settlement go to group members. 

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Strip search class action says NSW trying again to declass case
Class Actions 2025-10-31 11:21 pm By Julia Kanapathippillai

A class action against NSW over festival strip searches says the state is attempting, again, to declass the proceeding after the lead applicant was awarded $93,000 in damages.

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iSignthis, Grant Thornton point the finger in class action defence
Class Actions 2025-10-31 11:54 pm By Sam Matthews

iSignthis and auditor Grant Thornton have each pointed the finger at each other in response to a shareholder class action over the delisted fintech’s 2018 financial statements.

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GHD flags cross-claims in Hunter Valley bus crash class action
Class Actions 2025-10-31 11:40 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Engineering firm GHD Australia, which has recently been joined to a class action over a bus crash in NSW’s Hunter Valley that killed 10 passengers, has flagged bringing its own cross-claims.

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‘Very concerned’: Judge wants to hear from late EML class action members
Class Actions 2025-10-30 11:48 pm By Sam Matthews

A judge has adjourned a hearing seeking approval of a $37.35 million settlement in a shareholder class action against EML Payments over concerns about the exclusion of late registrants and claims.

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NSW Police to appeal ruling in strip search class action
Class Actions 2025-10-30 11:55 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

The NSW government is planning to appeal a ruling that ordered it to pay $93,000 in damages to the lead plaintiff in a class action over police strip search at music festivals.

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Class action can encourage Dillwynia inmates to sign up, court says
Personal injury 2025-10-30 11:55 pm By Cindy Cameronne

A class action by inmates in the Dillwynia Women’ s Correctional Centre who were allegedly sexually assaulted by a corrections officer can send a notice encouraging — but not requiring — group members to sign up.

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IVF rebate class action faces bid to cut egg donors from case
Class Actions 2025-10-30 11:10 pm By Sam Matthews

The federal government has flagged its intention to bring a strike-out application to narrow the group member definition in a class action by single women and same-sex couples who were denied Medicare rebates for IVF.

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Court to hear class action firm’s novel application to vary GCO rate
Class Actions 2025-10-29 11:55 pm By Sam Matthews

A judge will appoint a contradictor to weigh in on a class action’s novel bid to vary the rate of a group costs order, just two months after the court approved a lower rate than was sought by the firm that’s running the case.

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