Pelvic mesh cases remind judge of the days when ‘mobile phones resembled house bricks’
AJB Stevens 2019-12-18 10:52 pm By Miklos Bolza | Sydney
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A Federal Court judge has frowned on a bid to transfer 12 individual cases over allegedly defective pelvic mesh to various state and territory courts, saying the manner in which the cases had been brought reminded him of the 1990’s when “mobile phones resembled house bricks” and suggesting the cases could be brought as a class action.

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