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Damian Malander has tried to quash a class action potentially involving 80,000 people, but the architect of the Lifestyle Group faces the music next year.
Legal action against the Lifestyle Direct Group has prompted its founder, Damian Malander, to set up a new debt collections business to recover Lifestyle Direct ‘debt’ from consumers he is alleged to have scammed.
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A web of companies purporting to be “loan providers” is set to be taken to court in a class action brought by Stellenbosch University (SU) Law Clinic. The companies are accused of duping thousands of consumers into signing contracts for paralegal and other “value-added” services, instead of providing actual loans.
It is a significant step in the struggle against the Lifestyle Legal group and the first successfully certified consumer law class action in SA legal history in which the court delivered a certification judgment. It is also the first successful class action certification brought by an SA university law clinic.