All Brisbane and Ipswich flood victims should be careful of doomsday prophets urging people NOT to sign up for a class action.
The Greater Goodna Flood Group has consistently advised flood victims of their rights and why it makes sense to sign up for a class action now - rather than later - when time constraints might see some flood victims fail to exercise their rights.
Maurice Blackburn Lawyers in conjunction with litigation funder IMF (Australia) are the only legal firm in Australia which appears to be well-advanced with their potential class action against Seqwater and/or the Queensland Government over the Brisbane River flood of 11 January 2011 believed by many to have occurred as the direct result of the mismanagement of the Wivenhoe and Somerset Dams in the days leading up to the flood.
There has been some huffing and puffing from some other legal firms but, at the end of the day, they will probably just want to piggyback on a Maurice Blackburn class action.
The doomsday soothsayers are claiming that other firms can do things for a lot less than Maurice Blackburn and IMF (Australia) - if those other firms do anything at all, of course.
The sort of advice being given by some prophets of doom could end up hurting the very people they are claiming to try to help.
Hopefully, if any flood victims follow any dud advice to their detriment, Maurice Blackburn might be prepared to initiate a separate class action against these purveyors of dubious Chinese whispers. Only then, might these self-appointed expert advisers realise the harm they have caused.
The other so-called "advice" being peddled by these self-appointed and self-opinionated suburban experts is that individual flood victims will be able to piggyback onto any successful claim by Maurice Blackburn.
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Self-appointed flood experts might be
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What they are saying is that after the "class" of claimants is defined and after a successful legal claim (through the Supreme Court or by agreement between the parties), the Premier Campbell Newman will suddenly become Santa Claus and open the state's coffers to an even greater array of claimants.
People who think this are either smoking too much opium or have just arrived from the planet Utopia.
17.12.12
