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Settlement talks fail in Pitcher Partners, Arnold Bloch Leibler class actions
Accounting 2021-10-15 4:05 pm By Miklos Bolza Sydney
Two class actions against Pitcher Partners and Arnold Bloch Leibler over advice given ahead of Slater & Gordon's disastrous $1.2 billion Quindell acquisition will proceed to trial next month after mediation between the parties failed to resolve the cases.
a2 Milk to fight shareholder class action
Class Actions 2021-10-06 9:54 pm By Christine Caulfield Melbourne
Dairy company a2 Milk has denied liability to shareholders in a class action over its 2021 financial year guidance that preceded four earnings downgrades.
a2 Milk hit with shareholder class action over earnings downgrades
Class Actions 2021-10-05 10:12 pm By Cat Fredenburgh
Slater & Gordon has filed a shareholder class action against the a2 Milk company over its 2021 financial year guidance, and four subsequent earnings downgrades.
New class action bill is ‘sabotage not reform’, lawyers say
Class Actions 2021-09-30 5:30 pm By Christine Caulfield Melbourne
Law firms have railed against proposed legislation to ensure group members receive 70 per cent of any recoveries from class actions, saying the reforms were designed to "cripple" group proceedings.
Slater & Gordon faces negligence suit by Manus Island security worker
Arnold Thomas & Becker 2021-09-30 2:23 pm By Miklos Bolza Sydney
Slater & Gordon has been hit with a lawsuit filed by a former client who alleges the plaintiffs law firm's conduct prevented him from suing the federal government for psychiatric injuries suffered at the Manus Island refugee processing centre.
Joint privilege ruling to have implications for class actions against super trustees
Class Actions 2021-09-27 11:09 pm By Jessica Zarkovic and Joel Gilbourd of Slater & Gordon
An interlocutory decision in a class action against superannuation trustee Colonial First State Investments may have significant implications for how cases against super fund trustees are litigated in the future, says Slater & Gordon’s Jessica Zarkovic and Joel Gilbourd.
MIS regime to vex class action judges, experts say
ASIC 2021-09-23 10:21 pm By Miklos Bolza Sydney
New requirements that funded class actions be run as managed investment schemes will throw up myriad new questions for the courts, with lawyers predicting novel challenges by defendants and group members and an altered landscape for competing class actions.
Judge to hear second group costs order bid in G8 shareholder class action
Class Actions 2021-09-23 1:45 pm By Cindy Cameronne Sydney
A Victoria Supreme Court judge will hear the second ever application for a group costs order in a shareholder class action against G8 Education, saying she hoped to deal with the bid in a “straightforward way”.
Judge won’t let two class actions against Freedom Foods, Deloitte run in parallel
Alistair Pound 2021-09-22 1:59 pm By Miklos Bolza Sydney
A judge has rejected an application by the plaintiffs in two class actions against Freedom Foods and Deloitte to run their cases side-by-side, but said she would have granted a bid to consolidate the proceedings had that been sought.
Class action mediation ‘pointless’ without unregistered group member data, Pitcher Partners says
Arnold Bloch Leibler 2021-09-22 4:30 pm By Christine Caulfield Melbourne
A judge has refused a bid by accounting firms Pitcher Partners and EY to access share trading data of unregistered group members in a securities class action over advice to Slater & Gordon, despite claims upcoming mediation will be "pointless" without the information.