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GLEESON v APPLE INC and Another
|Watson J
76 VR 622
GLEESON v APPLE INC and Another Supreme Court of VictoriaWatson J 27 June 2025[2025] VSC 366Practice and procedure — Group proceeding — Application by plaintiff for leave to discontinue group proceeding — Whether discontinuance should be approved — Whether discontinuance unfair, unreasonable or adverse to group members — Supreme Court Act 1986 (Vic), s 33V.
Part 4A of the Supreme Court Act 1986 (Vic) (Act) concerned group proceedings. Section 33V(1) of the Act provided that ‘[a] group proceeding may not be settled or discontinued without the approval of the Court’. Section 33ZE provided: