We represented 8 students from around Australia who brought a class action against the Federal Environment Minister to protect young people from the climate change impacts of the proposed Vickery Extension Coal Project.

We assisted six Tiwi Islands Traditional Owners and a Larrakia Traditional Owner and superfund members to file human rights complaints against banks and superfunds.

We represented, Mark McVeigh, who brought world-leading litigation against the trustee of a $60 billion superannuation fund, Rest. The superfund agreed to settle, stating ‘that climate change is a material, direct and current financial risk to the superannuation fund,’ and ‘that Rest, as a superannuation trustee, considers that it is important to actively identify and manage these issues.’

We represented AGL shareholder Joshua Ross, in relation to an intervention in the New South Wales Supreme Court proceedings on the application by the company to approve scheme materials for a proposed demerger.

We represent Katta O’Donnell, a 23 year old student from Victoria, in a world-first action against the Commonwealth of Australia for failing to disclose climate change risks to sovereign bond investors.

We represent, Christopher Vanderstock and Kathleen Davis, who are electric vehicle drivers that are challenging the State of Victoria’s tax on electric vehicles in the High Court of Australia.

We represented Guy and Kim Abrahams, shareholders in the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, who filed an application in the Federal Court of Australia seeking access to internal company documents. The Court ordered that the Abrahams may use certain documents received for the purpose of further litigation and for forwarding documents to regulators APRA and ASIC.

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Equity Generation Lawyers represents Jubilee Australia, a human rights and environmental organisation, in a Federal Court of Australia action seeking to compel Federal government agencies that subsidise fossil fuel projects to disclose the full environmental effects of those activities.

We represent Parents for Climate Action in a landmark action against EnergyAustralia for misleading customers about the “carbon neutrality” of its products.