Two law firms that were able to “work cooperatively” to join their cases have been awarded carriage of a shareholder class action against mining firm Downer EDI. The judge overseeing the proceedings also approved a group costs order application that proposed a “reasonable rate” of return to the firms.
The field of competitors in a four-way contest to run a shareholder class action against Downer EDI over a $40 million profit overstatement has narrowed with the consolidation of three cases, leaving one firm to face criticism over its comparative inexperience running group proceedings.Â
Hancock Prospecting can’t challenge an order that documents produced in arbitration are fair game, as the mining company’s chief, Gina Rinehart, battles her children in a trial over ownership of a valuable tenement set to start Monday.
A judge overseeing a class action over the government’s total ban on live cattle exports to Indonesia has challenged the applicantâs bid to base group member damages on an increased number of cows that could have been exported, three years after the lead applicant won a $2.9 million judgment.
Online trading company CMC Markets has succeeded in accessing advice given to class action members who are seeking to recover 10 yearsâ worth of âsignificantâ losses incurred while trading risky financial products on its mobile and web-based platforms.
Lawyerly’s Litigation Law Firms of 2022 racked up precedent-setting victories in a year that continued to see major developments in class action law.
S&P Global is fighting bids to expand a class action alleging systemic defects in its ratings systems to a new type of complex financial product and to include allegations from a US Department of Justice case in a separate suit by two Cayman Islands-based companies.
A judge has rejected Shine Lawyersâ second bid to challenge a court order that it join forces with rival Banton Group in an investor class action Blue Sky Alternative Investments and auditor EY, saying the firmâs funder LCM was trying to âtake the bat and ball and go home.â Federal Court Justice Michael Lee rejected…
A judge has thrown out a long-running class action on behalf of 20 local councils in NSW alleging insurer JLT Risk Solutions charged them hundreds of millions of dollars in excessive premiums over nine years.
A shareholder class action against a2 Milk has won its bid to include claims under New Zealand law over the dairy company’s disclosures to the New Zealand stock exchange.