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Shine stuck running Blue Sky, EY class action with rival firm
Appeals 2022-12-19 5:32 pm By Cindy Cameronne Sydney

A law firm has lost its bid to challenge a court order that it join forces with a competing firm in an investor class action against Blue Sky Alternative Investments and auditor EY.

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Class action by NSW local councils against insurer JLT dismissed by court
Alison Hammond 2022-12-19 4:58 pm By Cindy Cameronne Sydney

A judge has thrown out a long-running class action on behalf of 20 local councils in NSW alleging insurer JLT Risk Solutions charged them hundreds of millions of dollars in excessive premiums over nine years.

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Sunwater insurer doesn’t owe coverage for $440M Queensland floods class action
Allens 2022-12-16 9:25 pm By Sam Matthews Melbourne

Queensland government-owned water services provider Sunwater has lost a bid to overturn a judgment letting insurer Liberty Mutual Insurance off the hook for its share of a $440 million settlement in the Queensland floods class action.

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Law firm bows out of contest to run class actions against Apple, Google
Apple 2022-12-15 5:31 pm By Cindy Cameronne Sydney

A law firm has dropped plans to bring a second set of class actions alleging Apple and Google engaged in anti-competitive conduct in operating their app stores, but will act as an “agent” for the first-to-file firm.

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Contradictor blasts Shine’s ‘wholly unreasonable’ $100M legal bill in J&J class actions
Alec Leopold 2022-12-05 11:15 pm By Cindy Cameronne Sydney

A contradictor in two pelvic mesh class actions against Johnson & Johnson has opposed Shine Lawyers recovering $100 million in costs from a $300 million settlement, which a judge has preliminarily found is not fair and reasonable to group members.

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Judge slashes Opal Tower funder’s cut of class action settlement
Alexander Barnett 2022-11-28 11:35 pm By Cindy Cameronne Sydney

A judge has approved a confidential settlement in a class action on behalf of 383 apartment owners in Sydney’s Opal Tower but slashed the amount sought by the funder.

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Freezing order stands in Sportsbet’s domain name spat with owner of sportsbet.com
Corrs Chambers Westgarth 2022-11-21 5:39 pm By Cindy Cameronne Sydney

Bookmaker Sportsbet has defeated a bid to overturn a freezing order against the owner of the sportsbet.com domain name in a trade mark infringement dispute stemming from a promotion agreement.

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Apple flags fight over consolidation of app store competition class actions
Allens 2022-11-18 5:39 pm By Cindy Cameronne Sydney

Apple has foreshadowed a challenge in the event two law firms seek to work together on a consolidated class action that alleges both Apple and Google engaged in anti-competitive conduct in operating their app stores.

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Funder’s $13.2M cut is 26% of Opal Tower class action settlement
Alexander Barnett 2022-11-11 11:00 pm By Cindy Cameronne Sydney

The litigation funder bankrolling a class action on behalf of 383 apartment owners in Sydney’s troubled Opal Tower is seeking a 26 per cent commission totalling $13.2 million of the confidential settlement sum, a court has heard. 

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Nuix drags PwC into shareholder class action over $1.8B IPO
Class Actions 2022-11-09 11:41 pm By Christine Caulfield

Nuix has pointed the finger at its accountant PricewaterhouseCoopers in the software company’s defence to a class action over a prospectus for its $1.8 billion IPO two years ago.

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