Friday, 27 February 2026
State of the Market for Class Actions
- The frequency, size and shape of class actions – what the statistics show
- State of the market for third party funding of class actions
- The impact of group costs orders in Victoria
- Major decisions that have or will influence the landscape
- Areas of growing controversy in class actions
- Policy questions to be answered in the next few years
Presented by Jason Betts, Partner, Global Co-Head of Class Actions, Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer
Description
Attend and earn 1 CPD unit in Substantive Law
This program is applicable to practitioners from all States & Territories
* This interactive online recording includes questions and quizzes requiring critical thinking about the topics, so you have no annual limits to the number of points/hours you can claim with this format of learning. Please verify with your CPD rules
Chair
Angela Pearsall, Partner, Ashurst Australia
Presenters
Angela Pearsall, Partner, Ashurst
Angela has extensive experience in dispute resolution and is widely recognised as one of the leading litigation lawyers in Australia. She specialises in large-scale commercial litigation and class actions, as well as contentious regulatory investigations and litigation. Angela regularly handles complex 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 financial services' obligations. She regularly represents banks, large corporates, preeminent global accounting and auditing firms and directors. Chambers Asia Pacific describes her as “an absolute standout" and “she's commercial, knows her field well and knows her matters inside out.“
Jason Betts, Partner, Global Co-Head of Class Actions, Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer
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 one of the few Australian defence lawyers to have run a class action to final trial and judgment, and is the only Australian lawyer to win two shareholder class actions at trial (on behalf of Worley and Iluka). 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.
