News.com.au, 10 May 2011A BID by electricity supplier SP Ausnet and Victoria Police to stop a class action by hundreds of Black Saturday bushfire victims from going to trial has failed.
SP Ausnet and the state - defendants in a class action by hundreds of Black Saturday victims - tried to have the proceedings dismissed.
SP Ausnet cited an abuse of process by the solicitors who issued the initial claim.
But Victorian Supreme Court Justice Jack Forrest today ruled the proceeding should stand, as the abuse was "not fatal" to the case going ahead. Full story
