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Ai Group supports 70% minimum return to class members
“The Australian Industry Group (Ai Group) has expressed strong support for a 70% minimum gross return to class members in a submission in response to a Treasury and Attorney-General’s Department Consultation Paper on Guaranteeing a minimum return of class action proceeds to class members,” Innes Willox, Chief Executive of the national employer association Ai Group, said today.
“Class actions have a genuine role to play in ensuring that where a large number of parties have suffered common harm or damage they are properly compensated. However, the current poorly regulated system is allowing litigation funders to take a disproportionate share of the proceeds of class actions. A recent Australian Law Reform Commission report on class actions proceedings and third-party litigation funders reported that in cases involving litigation funders, the median return to plaintiffs was only 51 per cent of the amount awarded,
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