MH17 case restricted

A CLASS action brought by an Australian woman whose mother died when flight MH17 was shot down over Ukraine will be restricted to the survivors of victims who had links to Australia. A Sydney judge yesterday found the proposed criteria for who could join the class action was too broad. Lawyers for Cassandra Gibson, whose mother died when the Malaysia Airlines plane was shot down in 2014, had argued legal representatives for all the flight’s 298 passengers should be allowed to join her Federal Court compensation bid.