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Resolving a split between courts, the High Court has confirmed that judges have power to make soft class closure orders, which require class action members to register before mediation to participate in any resulting settlement.
Shareholders are set to pocket 58 per cent of a $65 million settlement in a class action against Treasury Wine Estates if the deal is approved by a court at a hearing this month.
Two Suncorp units and insurer TAL Life have agreed to pay $34 million to settle a class action over allegedly worthless add-on insurance sold at car dealerships.
A judge has urged Netflix and a manager who alleges she was booted from her role while on parental leave to continue talks to resolve their dispute following a failed mediation.
A judge has put off an application for a 30 per cent group costs order in a class action against JB Hi-Fi so law firm Maurice Blackburn can provide more detail about the proposed fee, which she said was “at the higher end".
A judge has been asked to approve a $64.25 million settlement in a class action against the trustees of the MLC Super Fund, hearing the settlement, reached just prior to the dismissal of a similar class action, was on the “higher end”.
The applicant in a failed class action by members of NAB's MLC Super fund can't access a settlement deed in a separate class action against the fund trustee, which resolved days after the applicant's case was thrown out.
Applicants in class actions against Hyundai and Kia have complained they are being left in the dark about whether a competing set of cases will amend their pleadings ahead of next month's law firm carriage fight.
Applicants in class actions against Hyundai and Kia over alleged defective braking will pay the car manufacturers' costs incurred for abandoned appeals, despite arguing the appeals were overtaken by subsequent events.
A judge has said he is satisfied that GM's concerns about a class action's "circular" explanation of alleged design flaws in certain Holden vehicles are "not trivial".