A claim filed by liquidators in their personal names, without stating their representative capacity, is nonetheless a valid application under s 588FF of the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth) where the liquidators were in fact the company's liquidators and pleaded that fact. Amendment to correct the description is a correction of misnomer under r 375(3) UCPR, not the commencement of a fresh proceeding, and is not barred by the time prescriptions in s 588FF(3). Separately, a company may be joined as plaintiff for an unjust enrichment claim under r 69(1)(b) UCPR after the limitation period has expired where the failure to name the company was the product of simple error and no specific prejudice is demonstrated.
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