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Claims of class action explosion don’t add up, new report says
Exclusive 2019-11-11 4:40 pm By Christine Caulfield

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 […]

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Vocation class action lumbers on with pared claims
Class Actions 2019-11-11 4:02 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

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 […]

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Two firms running Toyota class action will get only one set of costs, judge says
Class Actions 2019-11-07 5:55 pm By Christine Caulfield

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 […]

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Icon denies QBE exclusions applied in Opal Tower disaster
Class Actions 2019-11-07 4:47 pm By Miklos Bolza

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 […]

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Settlement reached in NSW ambulance privacy class action
Class Actions 2019-11-07 1:24 pm By Miklos Bolza

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, […]

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Time may be ripe for discrimination class actions in Australia
Expert Insights 2019-11-05 10:48 pm By

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 […]

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Staffing company faces $45M worker misclassification class action
Class Actions 2019-11-05 10:07 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

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 […]

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Reforms to target litigation funders and ‘lawfare’, Attorney-General says
Class Actions 2019-11-05 9:33 pm By Miklos Bolza

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 […]

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Thiess workers owed unpaid wages for bus journeys, judge finds
Employment 2019-11-05 6:56 pm By Miklos Bolza

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 […]

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Domino’s can’t block funder from viewing unredacted docs in class action
Class Actions 2019-11-05 1:58 pm By Miklos Bolza

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 […]

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