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Maurice Blackburn accelerates Uber class action
Maurice Blackburn has picked up its class against Uber to now encompass taxi and car hire services in three states.
Emma Musgrave
The plaintiff firm has released a statement, explaining that its class action against the ride share service has been expanded with the Victorian Supreme Court claim to now also include taxi and hire car drivers, operators and licence owners in Queensland, NSW and Western Australia.
Commenting further, Maurice Blackburn senior associate Elizabeth O’Shea said “there were no out of pocket costs or liability risk for registrants, with the case costs being underwritten by a third party litigation funder”.
“Uber sells a notion that it’s just here to do things differently, but in reality and as we will allege, different has meant operating unlawfully and that has caused extensive loss and damage to law-abiding taxi and hire car operators and licence holders across the country,” Ms O’Shea said.
“It was Uber that came in and exploited people by operating outside of regulations, it was Uber’s conduct that led to decimating losses suffered by our group members and for those reasons it is the multibillion dollar company Uber and its associated entities that we are targeting in order to provide redress to those affected."
Ms O’Shea added that the class action is likely to be one of Australia’s largest, given the number of people involved, the potential recovery of compensation and the fight the firm anticipates from the defendants.
“We have a proud history of running the nation’s largest and toughest class actions and we believe that this is the best mechanism to pursue some meaningful form of justice and compensation for those who have had their lives turned upside down by Uber’s alleged illegal operation in Victoria, NSW, Qld and WA,” she concluded.
Emma Musgrave
Emma Musgrave (née Ryan) is the managing editor, professional services at Momentum Media.
Emma has worked for Momentum Media since 2015, including five years spent as the editor of the company's legal brand - Lawyers Weekly. Throughout her time at Momentum, she has been responsible for breaking some of the biggest stories in corporate Australia. In addition, she has produced exclusive multimedia and event content related to the company's respective brands and audiences.
Prior to joining Momentum Media, Emma worked in breakfast radio, delivering news to the Central West region of NSW, before taking on a radio journalist role at Southern Cross Austereo, based in Townsville, North Queensland.
She holds a Bachelor of Communications (Journalism) degree from Charles Sturt University.
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