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Westpac, ASIC feud over scope of financial services in Ausgrid insider trading case
Westpac has hit back at a bid by ASIC to add an allegation to the regulator's insider trading case that hinges on the bank providing financial services when it traded on the morning of a $16 billion deal to privatise electricity provider Ausgrid.
Court to hear bid to join insurers to class action against Blue Sky, EY
The insurers of Blue Sky Alternative Investments are fighting a bid to be joined to a consolidated investor class action against the company and its auditor, EY.
Developers added to Apple, Google class actions despite conflict concerns
App developers can be added as group members in class actions against Apple and Google alleging they engaged in anti-competitive conduct in operating their app stores, despite Apple’s concerns that the law firm running the case will owe conflicting duties. 
With ‘hesitation’, judge OKs $300M settlement in J&J class actions
A judge has approved a $300 million settlement in two pelvic mesh class actions against Johnson & Johnson and unit Ethicon -- the largest settlement in the history of Australian product liability group proceedings -- but a $100 million deduction for legal costs has yet to get the greenlight. 
Opal Tower class members could do ‘simple arithmetic’, funder says in appeal of cuts to commission
The funder in the Opal Tower class action has appealed a judge's decision to slash its commission for not disclosing proposed deductions from the settlement sum as percentages, telling the Full Court that group members could do "simple arithmetic".
Ex-Nuix CEO appeals loss in $180M case over options agreement
Former Nuix CEO Edward Sheehy is challenging his loss in a lawsuit claiming he's owed $183 million in options under a 2008 agreement with the technology company.
The top litigation law firms of 2022
Lawyerly's Litigation Law Firms of 2022 racked up precedent-setting victories in a year that continued to see major developments in class action law.
In Jaguar Land Rover class action contest, ‘innovative’ funding model challenged
A law firm has questioned an “innovative” funding model proposed by its rival in a contest to run a class action against Jaguar Land Rover over allegedly defective diesel filters in its vehicles.
In first beauty parade of its kind, law firms compete to manage $300M J&J settlement
Sixteen law firms and accounting firms have thrown their hat in the ring to administer a $300 million settlement in two class actions against Johnson & Johnson over pelvic mesh devices that injured thousands of women.
J&J class action settlement ‘massively’ short of what pelvic mesh victims owed, court told
A contradictor appointed in two pelvic mesh class actions against Johnson & Johnson has blasted a $300 million settlement, calling it “massively” short of what is owed to group members, after a judge preliminarily found the sum was not fair and reasonable.