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A judge has said the applicant in a class action against Brambles has “side-stepped” a challenge to a landmark class closure ruling that found there was no statutory power to shut out unregistered class action members, a decision that he said had “bedevilled” the courts.
The law firm that's running seven class actions challenging the 'casualisation' of mine workers says the cases still have a way forward despite suffering a "disappointing setback" from the High Court's finding that a Glencore mine worker was a casual employee because he worked on an "assignment-to-assignment" basis.
The funder backing a class action accusing two energy generators of gaming Queensland's energy prices wants the Full Court to find the landmark Brookfield Multiplex ruling, which held that a litigation funding arrangement for a class action was a managed investment scheme, was wrongly decided.
A class action over Melbourne's public housing lockdown during its second COVID-19 wave in July last year will continue after the lawyer previously running the case was stripped of her practicing certificate.
Generic drug maker Mayne Pharma Group has been hit with a shareholder class action over disclosures in relation to price-fixing allegations by US authorities.
Melbourne hospital operator Western Health has been hit with a class action on behalf of junior doctors across six hospitals in Victoria who allege they were denied pay for overtime hours, the third underpayments class action filed by doctors in the state.
The Full Court should determine whether a class action accusing two state-owned energy generators of gaming Queensland's energy pricing system needs to comply with regulations requiring litigation funders to register class actions as managed investment schemes, a court has been told.
The NSW Government is facing a class action alleging it fraudulently acquired land for the construction of the WestConnex tunnel and caused loss and damage to 3,000 land holders along the route.
Brick by brick, the claim that funded class actions are the primary driver of rising directors’ liability insurance premiums is being dismantled. Even more precarious is the claim that the Commonwealth government’s continuous disclosure reforms are the answer and will result in enormous savings for Australian business, says Omni Bridgeway managing director and CEO Andrew Saker.
A green activist who filed a group proceeding alleging the government failed to disclose the impacts of climate change to investors in sovereign bonds does not have a common interest with group members and should have her lawsuit declassed, a court has heard.