MRC Executive Director David Hughes spoke with A Current Affair as part of their investigation into the litigation funding industry.
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A lack of regulatory oversight has enabled litigation funders to generate massive returns at the expense of victims in class actions. By James Mathias.
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Proposals designed to help achieve justice for victims of sexual crimes are made with good intentions. But these reforms could permanently undermine our justice system in a way that harms everyone. By Amanda Stoker.
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Despite censoring the Menzies Research Centre’s submission to its judicial impartiality inquiry, it seems the ALRC agrees with one of our reform recommendations. By Chris Merritt.
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Federal parliament has a responsibility to ensure class action clients are not treated like milch cows by their lawyers and litigation funders. By Chris Merritt.
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The MRC is not alone in calling for the use of statistical data to improve judicial integrity. But its voice was the only to be censored for actually undertaking the exercise. By James Mathias.
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The scope for speculative class actions has been drastically reduced after temporary changes to continuous disclosure laws were made permanent. By James Mathias.
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We must not be complacent about direct attacks on the rule of law by two state premiers. By Chris Merritt.
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Labor is conspicuously alone in opposing reforms that would bring litigation funders under the same regulatory umbrella as other financial service providers. By James Mathias.
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The hallmark of the Attorney-General’s plan for a commonwealth integrity commission is respect for the presumption of innocence. By Chris Merritt.
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The federal government’s new insolvency laws provides a welcome reprieve for small businesses on the brink of bankruptcy but insolvencies are likely to surge once economic conditions return to normal. By Caroline Di Russo.
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New evidence shows litigation funders are slicing generous slices of court-awarded damages for themselves while injured parties go hungry. By Chris Merrit
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Submission to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services by James Mathias.
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It is irrelevant who a judge votes for. What matters is their views on what issues should be properly decided by a democratically elected parliament rather than the courts. By Senator James Paterson
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Lawyers who pay almost no tax and produce nothing are making obscene profits from other people’s misfortune. By James Mathias.
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A flood of foreign investment in our legal system is turning us into a nation of litigants. By Nick Cater
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Australian class action lawsuits are attracting profit-gougers from overseas at the expense of the people who can afford it least, the plaintiffs. By Nick Cater.
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The Federal Opposition is resisting parliamentary scrutiny of the ‘stratospheric’ profits being made by companies funding class actions. By Christian Porter.
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