Our annual flagship publication The Review: Class Actions in Australia 2022/2023 considers judgments, events and developments between 1 July 2022 and 30 June 2023.
In this period 53 new class actions were filed across Australia, marking the lowest total since 2016/2017.
The review period has seen:
- Consumer and securities claims headlining new filings
- An influx in data breach related filings, specifically across privacy breaches consumer claims and a securities claim alleging breach of continuous disclosure obligations following a cyber-attack
- Group costs orders driving filings in the Victorian Supreme Court
- More than $1B in settlements approved for the first time since 2019/2020
- The Federal Court scrutinising the proposed distribution of settlements, to plaintiff lawyers and funders.
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THE REVIEW: CLASS ACTIONS IN AUSTRALIA 2022/2023
Our annual flagship publication considers judgments, events and developments during this period.
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