The implication that litigation funding is a “dirty business" that soils the courts and the legal
process has been rejected by the High Court in Campbells Cash & Carry Pty Ltd v Fostif Pty
Ltd," a decision which determined that the involvement in proceedings of a litigation
financier, whose main purpose was to profit from its investment in a set of aggregated legal
claims, did not of itself warrant a stay for abuse of process. In reaching its decision the High
Court was focused upon the threat that litigation funding posed to the integrity of the justice …