Chair
Angela Pearsall, Partner, Ashurst Australia
Class Action Settlement Approvals and Third-Party Litigation Funding
- Observable trends in the exercise of judicial discretion to approve class action settlements
- Fair and reasonable deductions
- Legal costs
- After the event insurance
- Funding commissions
- Common Fund Orders, Group Costs Orders, and contingency fee arrangements
Presented by Simon Morris, Managing Partner, Morris Mennilli; Author, Australian chapters of Litigation Funding - Getting the Deal Through and The Global Damages Review
Description
Attend and earn 1 CPD hour in Substantive Law
This program is applicable to practitioners from all States & Territories
Presenters
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.
Simon Morris, Managing Partner, Morris Mennilli
Simon is a Partner with the boutique commercial litigation firm, Morris Mennilli. Simon has three decades of experience in resolving high-profile and complex commercial disputes across a range of industries and in the following areas of legal practice: Banking and finance, Class actions, Regulatory investigations and inquiries, Review of administrative decisions and Third-party litigation funding. Simon regularly acts for litigation funders on applications for approval of class actions settlements. His recent experience includes acting for the successful appellant in the landmark Full Court of the Federal Court proceedings: Galactic Seven Eleven Litigation Holdings LLC v Davaria.
