Australian business get go ahead for class action against Mobil Oil Australia Ltd - over contaminated aviation fuel - Brief Article

Airline Industry Information, June 9, 2000

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A class action suit launched by businesses affected by the contaminated fuel crisis in Australia during late 1999 is to proceed in the Supreme Court of Victoria.

A ruling by the Court of Appeal on 8 June will allow the case against Exxon Mobil Corp's Mobil Oil Australia Ltd to proceed despite the company's challenge about whether the Supreme Court had the constitutional right to hear a class action.

Two separate class actions launched by the businesses affected by the contamination, which saw some 5,000 small aircraft grounded for several weeks, have now been combined by Australian law firms - Slater & Gordon and Maurice Blackburn Cashman.

The class action, which is on behalf of about 4,000 businesses, will resume on 16 June according to Dow Jones News.

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