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Judge allows report denying PFAS link with immunosuppression in contamination class action
Class Actions 2022-06-10 7:02 pm By Sam Matthews

A class action alleging the federal government contaminated Indigenous land with toxic firefighting foam has lost a challenge to a report by a scientist who declined to find that the foam could cause adverse health effects including immunosuppression and interfere with the efficacy of vaccines.

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Mills Oakley snags employment law bigwig from King & Wood Mallesons
Business of Law 2022-06-08 11:30 am By Cat Fredenburgh

Mills Oakley has poached a leading employment law partner from King & Wood Mallesons for its growing workplace relations team.

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King & Wood Mallesons nabs Gilbert + Tobin competition ace
Competition & Consumer Protection 2022-06-02 9:08 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Top tier law firm King & Wood Mallesons has lured leading competition lawyer Luke Woodward to bolster its regulatory practice.

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QSuper says any class action recoveries can’t go to law firm, funder
Class Actions 2022-06-01 2:12 pm By Sam Matthews

QSuper has hit back at a class action over its alleged failure to notify members of changes to its premiums, saying group members failed to heed a ā€œlarge fontā€ notice of the changes and that any recoveries cannot be paid out to the law firm and funder running the litigation.

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Funder sells interest in combustible cladding class actions for $20M
Class Actions 2022-05-30 9:36 pm By Christine Caulfield

The litigation funder backing two combustible cladding class actions has sold a third of its investment in the cases to a player in the nascent secondary market for class action financing.

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Forex Capital liquidators win ā€˜urgentā€™ order for $69.5M distribution to customers
Restructuring & Insolvency 2022-05-24 5:42 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Forex Capital Trading liquidators have won an ā€œurgentā€ bid for orders allowing them to distribute $69.5 million to 8,600 former customers of the derivatives trader which allegedly gave misleading advice on products described as ā€œlittle more than gamblingā€.

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Man suing judge for unlawful imprisonment blasts ‘hopeless’ defence
Trials 2022-05-24 8:13 pm By Cindy Cameronne

The state of Queensland has brought a “hopeless” defence in a $2.5 million suit alleging a Federal Circuit judge unlawfully imprisoned a Queensland man for contempt after he failed to comply with an order for particulars, a court has heard.

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Suncorp Group settles class action ahead of 25-day trial
Class Actions 2022-05-23 1:07 pm By Sam Matthews

A unit of Suncorp Group has reached an in-principle settlement in a class action over alleged conflicted remuneration on the first day of an expected 25-day trial.

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Special leave refused in dispute over $81.8M Parklea Markets sale
David Williams 2022-05-20 3:20 pm By Cindy Cameronne

The High Court has refused Sydney retail personality Con Constantineā€™s bid to challenge a $4.25 million judgment in his favour over the $81.8 million Parklea Markets sale in 2016.

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‘High time’ to end uncertainty: Judge sets clock to run after class action abandoned
Class Actions 2022-04-27 11:52 am By Christine Caulfield

A judge has ruled that the discontinuance of a class action doesn’t lift the suspension of the limitations period on group member claims, and a court order that the clock run again is needed to ensure companies don’t face potential litigation in perpetuity.

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