Bailey v Veda Advantage Information Services and Solutions Limited [2007] FCA 1664

FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA

Bailey v Veda Advantage Information Services and Solutions Limited [2007] FCA 1664

PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE – Representative proceedings – application to strike out paragraphs of pleading – application for summary dismissal – three class actions by individuals claiming that credit information provider had supplied to subscribing credit providers misleading and deceptive and defamatory information concerning their credit worthiness – challenge to identification of group members – challenge to specification of common questions of fact and law – whether pleaded imputations merely repeated express terms – issue whether s 65A of Trade Practices Act 1974 (Cth) provides defence to credit information provider to the claim of contravention of s 52 of that Act.

DEFAMATION – three class actions by individuals claiming that credit information provider had supplied to subscribing credit providers misleading and deceptive and defamatory information concerning their credit worthiness – challenge to identification of group members – challenge to specification of common questions of fact and law – whether pleaded imputations merely repeated express terms – issue whether s 65A of Trade Practices Act 1974 (Cth) provides defence to credit information provider to the claim of contravention of s 52 of that Act.

TRADE PRACTICES – three class actions by individuals claiming that credit information provider had supplied to subscribing credit providers misleading and deceptive and defamatory information concerning their credit worthiness – challenge to identification of group members – challenge to specification of common questions of fact and law – whether pleaded imputations merely repeated express terms – issue whether s 65A of Trade Practices Act 1974 (Cth) provides defence to credit information provider to the claim of contravention of s 52 of that Act.