A judge has held off on orders requiring Maurice Blackburn to turn over financial information to Sportsbet in a class action over unlawful in-play betting, saying the parties should first confer on the issue of security for costs.
The funder of a failed class action against the founder of sandalwood producer Quintis and EY and has been hit with costs, despite arguing the order would set a bad precedent.
A judge has temporarily excused uranium miner Paladin Energy from providing initial discovery in a shareholder class action, as the parties wait for a competing class action to be filed.
The state of Victoria has sounded alarm bells about an amendment application by a class action over the COVID-19 hotel quarantine debacle, telling a judge it amounts to a new case with an “infinite number of permutations”.
A judge has rejected GM’s “back door” bid for indemnity costs from the lead applicant in a failed class action over its decision to retire the Holden brand because each group member had rejected a settlement offer before the case commenced.
A leading class actions lawyer has made the jump from Corrs Chambers Westgarth to Clifford Chance, drawn by the firm’s global reach.
Professional services giant KPMG has reached a settlement in a shareholder class action over the failure of mining company Cudeco.
A class action alleging a conspiracy against collapsed investment fund Blue Sky continues to be whittled down, with a court giving the firm’s founder the green light to drop claims against a handful of defendants, including law firm Gadens and AFR publisher Nine.
A judge is mulling whether to declass a group proceeding against the Australian Football League and Geelong Football Club, saying after three years of pre-trial procedures, the case is officially “out of hand”.
The Australian Football League and Geelong Football Club have brought applications seeking to strip a case over on-field concussions of class action status.