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A judge has questioned the need for solicitors in a class action against Jaguar to be involved in discovery of internal investigations by the car maker when a technical referee is to be appointed.
A drawn out class action against BHP has asked the High Court to clarify the correct approach to construing a group member definition, after a bid to retroactively amend the class was nixed on appeal.
The Full Federal Court's docket for 2025 is stacked with class action appeals after a bad run for plaintiffs at trial.
A class action against Toyota can serve the car maker's Japanese parent company, in hopes of obtaining technical information about devices it claims were installed in vehicles to cheat emissions tests.
Victorian healthcare providers facing class actions on behalf of junior doctors have turned to one law firm to lead their defence. And that firm might be about to get a lot busier.
A judge has consolidated two class actions against Insurance Australia over alleged misleading loyalty discounts and rejected the insurer’s objection to the inclusion of documents produced by ASIC in the first-filed case.
A group costs order giving class action solicitors a percentage cut of the proceeds of a case is a factor in weighing whether proceedings should be transferred from Victoria to a state in which such an order could not operate, the High Court has ruled.
The Supreme Court of Victoria has been urged not to meddle with a 25 per cent group costs order in a junk insurance class action that settled for $170 million, in what would be the court's second blessing of a law firm contingency fee.
A judge is not ready to hear a bid to summarily dismiss a "long and tortured" case alleging University of Sydney postgraduate students were underpaid, calling it a "monumental waste of time".
Johnson & Johnson has slammed a class action over allegedly ineffective cold and flu medications, telling a judge it has "real concerns" with how the case has been framed.