The High Court of Australia has preserved the judgment of the Federal Court, which two years ago ruled in favour of thousands of women whose “lives were destroyed” by faulty pelvic mesh implants
Largest women’s health class action decision upheld
By Jerome Doraisamy|05 March 2021
A landmark decision from November 2019 has been upheld, delivering findings in favour of thousands of women whose “lives were destroyed”.
Landmark judgment
In November 2019, Justice Anna Katzmann of the Federal Court of Australia found in favour of women impacted by pelvic mesh implants sold by Johnson & Johnson and Ethicon which were “not fit for purpose”. The class action – “the largest women’s health class action in Australia’s history”, according to Shine – commenced in October 2012 and culminated in a trial that ran over seven months starting in July 2017.