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IPO Wealth trustee hit with class action

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 15 DEC 2020
Slater and Gordon issued the embattled IPO Wealth Fund with a class action late last week. The firm will represent unitholders in the IPO Wealth Fund, which is currently being wound up by trustee Vasco Trustees after the Victorian Supreme Court ordered ...

Law firm slams insurer mental health policies

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2020
Slater and Gordon has criticised life insurers for proposing to dictate who can and can't access mental health treatment through their funding programs. Calls from the life insurance industry for regulatory freedom to allow life companies to be ...

Lazard dumps AMP shares

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 4 AUG 2020
... facing class actions in relation to superannuation and alleged fees for no service from Maurice Blackburn and Slater and Gordon. Also in the last month, Standard & Poor's downgraded AMP Limited's credit rating and AMP chief executive Francesco De Ferrari ...

Litigation funding fight heats up

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 13 JUL 2020
... said since 1999 Maurice Blackburn has donated approximately $1.64 million to the Australian Labor Party, while Slater and Gordon also donated over $600,000. His argument hinged on his accusation that victims in class actions only receive about 39% of ...

AMP should stop whining: Slater and Gordon

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUL 2020
Law firm Slater and Gordon has slammed AMP chief executive Francesco De Ferrari's criticism of litigation funding and class actions, as AMP continues to battle lawsuits sparked by the Royal Commission. Slater and Gordon head of class actions Ben Hardwick ...

Law firm cuts pay

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 20 APR 2020
Slater and Gordon directors and senior executives will see their pay reduced by 10-15%, as the ASX-listed legal powerhouse moves to strengthen its balance sheet amid the COVID-19 crisis. Slater and Gordon's directors, chief executive and executive leadership ...

Call for pause on default insurance changes

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2020
... increases the chance Australians will need to rely on the cover automatically provided by their super fund. Slater and Gordon believes the government's suite of insurance in super reforms should be put on ice until after the threat of COVID-19 has ...

Colonial First State hit with second class action in less than a week

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 21 OCT 2019
Slater and Gordon has filed a second class action against Colonial First State for allegedly charging excessive superannuation fees to fund outgoing commissions paid to financial advisers. The class action is on behalf over 500,000 Australians and is ...

BT faces fees for no service class action

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 6 SEP 2019
... service. BT allegedly chose to use Westpac Life as an intermediary rather that investing member funds directly. Slater and Gordon special counsel Nathan Rapoport said Westpac Life was given complete discretion about the interest rates that it would pass ...

AMP faces super fee gouge class action

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 30 MAY 2019
... only one of several class actions launched against AMP can proceed. The class actions of Maurice Blackburn, and Slater and Gordon have been consolidated into one while the three remaining suits have been halted.