A federal judge on Friday set an August date to hear AMP’s arguments for why competing class actions should be moved to the NSW Supreme Court, but ordered the company to alert the state court to the brewing jurisdictional battle.
HR software company PageUp may be the first company to face a data breach class action in Australia following a new mandatory data breach notification scheme that should make it easier for law firms to recruit class members.
The judge who stayed two of three competing class actions against logistics software company GetSwift wants to square away a common fund order in the winning case before an appeal of his ruling is heard, over the protests of the appealing law firms.
The litigation funder underwriting a class action over the collapse of Banksia Securities lost its bid Thursday to block a group member from challenging a $64 million settlement in the case.
AMP will begin its push on Friday to move competing Federal Court class actions to the NSW Supreme Court, but the company will face fierce opposition.
Law firm Corrs Chambers Westgarth is following in the footsteps of Squire Patton Boggs, with both now challenging a ruling that halted their shareholder class actions against logistics startup GetSwift.
A judge overseeing five Dieselgate class actions against Volkswagen questioned on Wednesday the car giant’s claim that it wanted to close down two of the cases — run by Bannister Law — for the benefit of group members.
BHP has been hit with a shareholder class action over the deadly Samarco mine disaster that wiped off $25 billion from the share price of the mining giant.
The fate of class actions against Volkswagen in the sprawling Australian case over the car maker’s diesel emissions cheating scandal will be the subject of a major court battle starting Wednesday.
Leading fundraising company Appco Australia Group is challenging a judge’s decision to let a $85 million wage case move forward as a class action.