A challenge to the legality of common fund orders, an appeal to the High Court over the power of judges to stay competing cases, one […]
Last year was an exciting one for class action lawyers, with monumental court decisions on competing cases, cross-jurisdictional spats, proportionality in settlements and the power […]
Businesses and other class action defendants have paid in excess of $4 billion in settlements since the class action regime was introduced in Australia, and […]
Australia’s four biggest lenders had an expensive year in court last year, but with cases spilling over into the new year and the fallout from […]
As judges grapple with fierce competition among litigation funders and law firms to lead class actions, Lawyerly asked two leading practitioners on opposing sides of […]
The two criminal cartel cases brought by the ACCC in the past three months are just the beginning, lawyers say, with three or four more […]
Regulating third-party litigation funders gets a resounding yes, but experts are divided on removing the ban on contingency fees and other recommendations for reforming the […]
Clayton Utz’s public statements referencing its terms of engagement with AMP in drafting an independent report are irrelevant if it knew the document was destined […]