Andrew Watson, national head of class actions at Maurice Blackburn, welcomes "the return to sanity on regulation of litigation funding” in Australia, while criticising recent Australian court decisions, such as the BHP shareholder case and the Ruby Princess case, as muddying the class actions landscape.

Jacob Varghese of Australian law firm Maurice Blackburn marvels at how the digital revolution has bizarrely increased the overall cost of litigation despite the world becoming more productive in many other areas and points to litigation funding as a tool that corporate counsel should embrace - not to make litigation less expensive - but to make losing less expensive.