Third party litigation funding has become intriguing development in the expansion of global class and collective action litigation over the past several years, particularly in Australia. (For various previous CAB articles addressing third party litigation funding, click here). The concept of third party litigation funding generally refers to financing of litigation by a private party or corporation that is [...]
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Is Victoria Province About to Top the ATRF’s List of Judicial Hellholes?
Posted in Class Action Trends, International Class Action Law, tagged australia class action, australian class action, contingency fee, contingent fee, fee sharing, fee splitting, IMF, IMF Australia, international class action, litigation funding on January 28, 2011 | 1 Comment »
NERA Economic Consulting Reports on Securities Class Action Trends in Australia
Posted in Class Action Trends, International Class Action Law, tagged australia class action, australian class action, Class Action Trends, International Class Action Law, NERA, securities class action on May 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
NERA Economic Consulting has published its first study on trends in securities class actions in Australia. The study covers a variety of topics, including numbers of filings, industries targeted, and settlement amounts. However, what I found to be of particular interest is the study’s focus on the impact of private litigation funding.
Securities Class Action Trends in the US and Australia
Posted in Class Action Trends, International Class Action Law, Securities Class Actions, tagged australia class action, litigation funding, securities class action, shareholder class action, subprime class action on January 5, 2009 | 2 Comments »
As we welcome in the first full business week of 2009, two news sources have recent stories discussing trends in securities class action litigation from 2008. First, the Wall Street Journal Blog reports that 2008 saw an increase in securities class action filings. However, the article also notes that suits actually dipped in the second half of the [...]


Climate Change and Class Actions
Posted in Class Action News, Class Action Trends, Commentary, International Class Action Law, tagged australia class action, carbon offsets, carbon pollution reduction scheme, carbon trading, Class Action Trends, climate change, climate change class action, global warming, global warming class action, greenhouse case emissions, international class action, securities class action on September 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »
An article yesterday in the Australian newspaper The Age quotes Australian “climate change lawyer” Renee Garner as predicting a trend in securities class actions for companies’ failure to disclose information about their carbon output, information that she says will arguably impact on a company’s value given the likely implementation of a Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme in Australia. Earlier [...]
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