Market Trends of Class Actions in Australia and Overseas
- Continued challenges for plaintiffs pursuing shareholder class actions in Australia
- The ongoing attractiveness of contingency fees and the beginning of Federal jurisdiction contingency fees
- The proliferation of plaintiff firms pursuing class actions in Australia and the increasing role of overseas actors in Australian class actions
- The drive toward data and environmental class actions globally
Presented by Jason Betts, Partner, Global Co-Head of Class Actions, Herbert Smith Freehills; Lawyers Weekly 2024 Class Actions Partner of the Year; Visitor to the University of Sydney Law School, teaching the post-graduate course “Class Action Litigation in Australia”; Co-author, “Class Actions in Australia” 3rd ed.
Description
Attend and earn 1 CPD hour in Substantive Law
This program is applicable to practitioners from all States & Territories
Chair
Angela Pearsall, Partner, Ashurst Australia
Presenters
Jason Betts, Partner, Global Co-Head of Class Actions, Herbert Smith Freehills
Jason is widely regarded as one of Australia’s leading class action, regulatory investigation and product liability specialists. He has over 25 years’ of litigation experience and has defended the largest class actions and investigations in the Australian market. He is the only Australian defence lawyer to have run a class action to final trial and judgment, and is the only Australian lawyer to win three shareholder class actions at trial (on behalf of Worley, Iluka and CBA). Jason also led the defence of two of Australia’s largest ever product liability class action cases, and acted for the defendant in the seminal Australian decision on third party litigation funding in Australia – Campbells Cash and Carry Pty Ltd v Fostif Pty Ltd. Jason is a Visitor to the University of Sydney Law School, teaching the post-graduate course “Class Action Litigation in Australia”. In 2022 Jason co-authored the third edition of the leading class actions text book in the country, “Class Actions in Australia”. He obtained his Master of Laws from the University of Virginia, specialising in class action defence theory.
Angela Pearsall, Partner, Ashurst Australia
Angela specialises in large-scale commercial litigation and class actions, as well as contentious regulatory litigation and investigations. Angela regularly handles complex financial reporting litigation, having acted for global accounting and auditing firms for more than a decade. She has led litigation including class actions arising out of major corporate collapses, IPOs, capital raisings, complex financial instruments and regulatory obligations. She regularly represents banks, large corporates, preeminent global accounting and auditing firms and directors.
