An average of 23 class actions have been filed every year in Australia since the class action regime was introduced in 1992, a number that […]
Certain claims in a shareholder class action against insolvent training company Vocation and auditor PricewaterhouseCoopers have been dropped, as the long-running case awaits a new […]
The two law firms leading a class action against Toyota over allegedly defective filters in the car giant’s diesel models will be able to recover […]
Construction firm Icon Co has rejected QBE Underwriting’s argument that exclusion clauses in coverage for Sydney’s Opal Tower meant the insurer did not have to […]
A class action against the NSW government over a contractor who took private details of 130 ambulance workers to on-sell to personal injury law firms, […]
It has been suggested by American and Canadian lawyers that Australia is dragging its feet in using its group litigation and class action regimes to […]
A unit of staffing company Programmed has become the latest target of a litigation blitz over casual workers, with the company facing a $45 million […]
The Federal Government is considering reforms targeting litigation funders in response to what it has called a greater number of “increasingly politicised” class actions against […]
The Federal Court has ruled against mining services firm Thiess in a class action brought by construction workers seeking unpaid wages for time spent on […]
The Federal Court has rejected an “unusual” confidentiality regime proposed by Domino’s Pizza Enterprises which would have resulted in restricted access to discovered documents for […]