Kieran O'Brien
DLA Piper
Articles
"A fair go for all": Caps on litigation funding proceeds to be introduced
Australia - September 30 2021 The Federal Government has made good on its promise to ensure a fair and reasonable distribution of class action proceeds in proceedings involving a…
Counting the cost: The first Australian ruling on contingency fee orders
Australia - September 22 2021 In the first test of the Supreme Court of Victoria's newfound powers to make a group costs order in a class action (or contingency fees in lay terms)…
Insights from the US: will knowledge, recklessness or negligence in Australian securities class actions actually change anything?
Australia, USA - August 16 2021 Last week the Federal Government introduced permanent reforms to the continuous disclosure regime and misleading and deceptive conduct provisions in…
"First in, not necessarily best dressed"
Australia - March 11 2021 By a majority of 3-2, the High Court has determined that, where two or more law firms commence overlapping and competing class actions, there is no…
Preparing for global class actions arising from COVID-19
Global - May 28 2020 Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has become an unprecedented pandemic that is having profound economic and social impacts around the world. Many…
Jean-Pierre Douglas-Henry, Sammy Fang, Dr. Ludger Giesberts, Keara M. Gordon, Colleen Carey Gulliver, David T. Neave, Isabelle Ord, Rebecca von Rüti, Jeremy Sher, Christopher M. Young
