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Fourth class action filed over St Patrick’s Day fires
Class Actions 2018-06-18 4:36 pm By Christine Caulfield

Powercor Australia has been hit a class action alleging its negligence led to a fire in the Gazette area of South West Victoria, the fourth class action the electrical distribution company faces over the 2018 St Patrick’s Day fires.

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Third class action to be filed over contamination at DoD army base
Class Actions 2018-06-15 10:20 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

Shine Lawyers has received unconditional funding from IMF Bentham to bring another class action against the Department of Defence over alleged land contamination near an army base, this time in the Northern Territory.

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Law firm can’t put ‘parasitic’ rival on hook for GetSwift costs
Class Actions 2018-06-15 8:56 pm By Miklos Bolza

Squire Patton Boggs, one of the losing law firms in the GetSwift class action beauty contest, has lost again, this time in its fight to have winning firm Phi Finney McDonald pay its legal costs.

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Judge won’t halt Quinn Emanuel AMP class action over venue fight
Class Actions 2018-06-15 2:56 pm By Miklos Bolza

A NSW Supreme Court judge refused Friday to pause one of five class actions against AMP despite an impending battle over where the cases should be heard.

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Australian regulator probes Mercedes-Benz over emissions cheat software
Competition & Consumer Protection 2018-06-15 11:51 am By Cat Fredenburgh

The Australian regulator that oversees car recalls is looking into whether Mercedes-Benz supplied cars in Australia that contain a defeat device, after regulators in the UK and Germany ordered mandatory recalls of cars fitted with the software used to cheat on emissions tests.

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S&P, ANZ reach deal in class actions over toxic CDOs
Class Actions 2018-06-13 3:45 pm By Miklos Bolza

S&P Global Ratings and ANZ Banking Group have agreed to settle seven class actions over toxic financial products given healthy credit ratings ahead of the global financial crisis.

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PageUp says consumer data likely accessed in system breach
Privacy & Cybersecurity 2018-06-12 10:10 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

Facing the threat of a class action, HR software company PageUp said Tuesday that customer information was likely compromised during a recent system breach.

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Government gets ok to amend defence mid-trial in home insulation class action
Class Actions 2018-06-12 3:41 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

The government has won court approval to amend its defence mid-trial in a class action brought by businesses alleging they were harmed when the Rudd Government cancelled a program that subsidised home insulation installations during the economic downturn. 

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Brisbane floods class action sent to mediation
Class Actions 2018-06-11 9:23 pm By Miklos Bolza

A judge has ordered mediation in the Brisbane floods class action, in which the victims of the 2011 disaster are seeking up to $1 billion in compensation.

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Judge tells AMP to warn state court of class action venue fight
Class Actions 2018-06-08 11:35 pm By Christine Caulfield

A federal judge on Friday set an August date to hear AMP’s arguments for why competing class actions should be moved to the NSW Supreme Court, but ordered the company to alert the state court to the brewing jurisdictional battle.  

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