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Class action investigation targets Mercedes-Benz over recall
Automotive 2022-05-31 6:56 pm By Sam Matthews

Mercedes-Benz is facing a potential class action over a recall affecting over 17,000 vehicles installed with faulty brake boosters.

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Uber appeals ruling it sought legal advice on how not to get ‘caught’
Amy Campbell 2022-05-31 2:17 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Uber has appealed a ruling that found many of its email exchanges with its lawyers were made in furtherance of offences at the centre of a class action and were not protected by legal professional privilege.

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Unpaid Mills Oakley bill shows funder’s foe unable to pay, court told
Associate Justice Ian Irving 2022-05-31 1:36 pm By Christine Caulfield

The litigation funder facing a lawsuit by the applicant in a class action it financed is demanding security for legal costs because it says the applicant — which is being chased by a law firm for more than $300,000 in fees — may not be good for the money.

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Funder sells interest in combustible cladding class actions for $20M
Class Actions 2022-05-30 9:36 pm By Christine Caulfield

The litigation funder backing two combustible cladding class actions has sold a third of its investment in the cases to a player in the nascent secondary market for class action financing.

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‘Welfare dependency’ relevant in age pension class action, court told
Australian Government Solicitor 2022-05-30 1:18 pm By Christine Caulfield

Fighting a class action that claims the age pension discriminates against Indigenous Australians because of differences in life expectancy, the Commonwealth says the rate of welfare dependency among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders could impact the case.

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EY settles class action claims over Slater & Gordon audits
Accounting 2022-05-26 10:49 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

Ernst & Young has settled all claims against it in a shareholder class action alleging the Big Four accounting firm and Pitcher Partners signed off on an overly rosy year-end financial report that failed to disclose risks and impairments associated with the law firm’s disastrous $1.2 billion acquisition of UK insurance claims company Quindell.

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MIS regime ‘just cannot work’ for class action funding arrangements, court told
Adam Hochroth 2022-05-25 10:46 pm By Christine Caulfield

A litigation funder challenging a decision underpinning recently enacted rules that require class actions to be registered as managed investment schemes told an appeals court Wednesday the decision was plainly wrong and the regime unworkable.

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Victoria’s triple-zero operator faces class action investigation
Class Actions 2022-05-24 10:30 am By Cat Fredenburgh

Victoria’s Emergency Services Telecommunications Authority may be hit with a class action over alleged systemic failures in its ambulance call handling operations that may have led to at least 15 deaths.

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Treasury Wine’s blackout of board papers ‘not justified’, class action judge says
Alistair Pound 2022-05-23 3:03 pm By Cindy Cameronne

A shareholder class action against Treasury Wine Estates has won access to information said to prove there were reduced wine sales in the United States, with a judge finding the wine producer’s redactions of board papers were “not justified”.

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Suncorp Group settles class action ahead of 25-day trial
Arnold Bloch Leibler 2022-05-23 1:07 pm By Sam Matthews

A unit of Suncorp Group has reached an in-principle settlement in a class action over alleged conflicted remuneration on the first day of an expected 25-day trial.

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