High Court questions power to hold class action contests

Adam Hochroth 2020-11-11 11:57 pm By Christine Caulfield | Melbourne

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That a first filed case should be the presumptive winner in a competition between class actions seemed a losing argument before the High Court on Tuesday as the justices weighed a challenge to a ruling picking one among a group of class actions against AMP, but the court also appeared skeptical of the power to hold wide ranging inquiries into the merits of competing cases.

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