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Enough already! Greed, hubris and indifference in the time of Banksia
Opinion 2024-01-26 10:22 am By Editor

Epic chutzpah. As a lawyer, I have always been fascinated – and appalled – by epic chutzpah. In its traditional Yiddish setting, chutzpah describes a […]

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Why we should all be worried about the court’s new media access rules
Courts 2023-02-20 11:11 pm By Christine Caulfield

The Federal Court has dialled back a controversial rule change restricting public access to new cases, but the latest procedure is a laughable attempt to […]

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How class actions help address the cost of misconduct
Opinion 2020-09-17 6:55 pm By

There are many ways to quantify corporate misbehaviour and misconduct. There is the $1.05 billion (and counting) that Australia’s six biggest banking and financial institutions […]

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Funder’s fees put in context
Opinion 2020-07-29 10:20 am By Cat Fredenburgh

The Murray Goulburn class action, which was taken on behalf of aggrieved unit holders in the dairy business and settled late last year, has attracted […]

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Will 2020 mark the beginning of the end for class actions in Australia?
Opinion 2020-05-27 8:52 pm By

The headline of this article is admittedly an extremely pessimistic (if not melodramatic) prediction as to the future of class actions in Australia. It is […]

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