A2 Milk Class Action

When Governments, large companies or institutions do the wrong thing and people are harmed or suffer loss as a result, an individual can have little to no means of bringing a legal claim.

Class actions are an important mechanism within Australia’s legal system that allow large groups of people to come together to pursue a claim collectively.

For a class action to take place, there are three criteria that need to be met:

1. there must be 7 or more people that have claims against the same defendant; and

2. the claims relate to the same or similar circumstances; and

3. the claim must relate to at least one common issue of law or fact.

For more information about how class actions resolve, click here.

It can take up to several years for a class action to resolve. The time taken from case commencement through to resolution and settlement administration depends on the particular case, and the nature of the claim.

For more information about class actions and how they work, click here.

Shine Lawyers is committed to ensuring that everyone, regardless of their background or financial situation, has access to justice. We run our class actions in a way that means you are not exposed to any costs or financial risk, so joining a class action will cost you nothing.

When a class action is successful, the legal fees and costs to run the class action are deducted from the settlement amount that is approved by the Court. If the class action is unsuccessful, we will ensure there are no out-of-pocket costs to you.

Yes, your contact details will remain confidential and we will seek your consent before disclosing any of your personal information (including before such disclosure is required by the Court).

Shine Lawyers will only use your personal information strictly for the purpose of the legal proceedings.

Daigou, which means ‘buy on behalf of’ in Chinese, consists of a vast network of both retail or small and corporate resellers in Australia. The resellers take individual orders through platforms like WeChat and then ship requested products to China.

Daigou can fall into two categories:

• Retail daigou: are generally a group of international students and tourists who purchase goods from retail stores and send them back to China; and

• Corporate daigou: are digital marketing and consultancy companies that have large numbers of daigou agents in their business operations with formal channels or digital platforms to manage product procurement, delivery and other logistics.

Cross Border e-Commerce (CBEC) is a state sanctioned means of importing products into China. CBEC is where Chinese domestic consumers purchase goods from overseas via third party e-Commerce platforms. The platforms include Alibaba, Net Ease Koala and JD Worldwide. The advantage of CBEC for a business is that a Chinese presence, and thus compliance with Chinese regulations, are not required by the business.

CBEC is also characterised by frequent discounting to attract sales. Similar to black Friday and Boxing Day sales events, China has “11/11 singles day” in November and “6/18” in June.