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AMP becomes class action target

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 30 APR 2018
... at the Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry. The litigation funding group said it will fund class action proceedings conducted by law firm Phi Feeney McDonald. Slater and Gordon (funded by Therium) ...

Court blocks IOOF class action

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 31 OCT 2016
... documents to any person. Earlier this month the court ordered Maurice Blackburn's litigation funder, Harbour Litigation Funding, to cease the provision of funding and any other support for legal work performed by any person in relation to the proposed ...

Court ruling on Storm, "a blow" to consumer action

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 13 AUG 2013
... other cases as well. "The Full Court of the Federal Court, at ASIC's request, gave a shot in the arm to the litigation funding industry through its judgment in Richards versus Macquarie Bank," Levitt Robinson principal Stewart Levitt said. The litigator ...

NSW councils entitled to compo: Fed court

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 6 NOV 2012
... "sandbagged" and ABN Amro "Simply bulldozed the rating through," she said. John Walker, executive director of listed litigation funding group IMF, said that it was the first time that a judge in a superior court had ruled that a ratings agency had been ...

Signature scam adviser banned for life: ASIC

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAY 2011
... margin loan provider, who was presented with a seemingly-authentic signature by an authorised stock broker. The litigation funding firm is also hoping to back a separate action, a $20 million group claim on behalf of 60 clients - mostly self-funded retirees ...
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