A judge has questioned how the government can enforce a ārestrictiveā undertaking with a former member of the Australian Defence Force who will give key evidence in a class action alleging the Commonwealth contaminated Indigenous land with toxic firefighting foam.
The Full Federal Court has thrown out a decision that found foreign passengers could join a class action against cruise operator Carnival PLC over the 2020 COVID-19 outbreak aboard the Ruby Princess, finding a class action waiver was not unfair.
The Albanese government has introduced legislation that would roll back the requirement that litigation funders hold an AFSL and register their class actions as managed investment schemes, saying the Morrison government era-regulations were not fit for purpose.
A judge has ruled that a litigation funder for an investor class action against Virgin must give the airline an indemnity to bring proceedings despite finding a deed of company arrangement requiring the pay-out ādidnāt make senseā.
A class action has been filed targeting Victoria Police’s use of capsicum spray and excessive force against protestors at the International Mining and Resources Conference in Melbourne three years ago.
A landmark class action on behalf of over 1,700 family members and deceased estates of the Northern Territory Stolen Generations has reached a $50.45 million settlement with the federal government.
Western Australia is set to become the fifth state in Australia that allows lawyers to launch class actions, after a bill permitting representative proceedings advanced in the state parliament’s upper house.
The special purpose receiver acting for debenture holders of defunct Banksia Securities was right to reject a confidential settlement — believed to be for $10.6 million — offered by the disgraced lawyers behind a scandal-ridden class action, a court has found.
The entity that employs the workforce of the On The Run convenience store chain has agreed to pay $5.8 million to settle a class action accusing it of underpaying over 8,000 workers over a six-year period.
The state of Victoria can’t duck class action claims that failures in its hotel quarantine program caused businesses to suffer losses when stage three and four restrictions were put in place during the state’s second wave of COVID-19 cases in 2020.