Brewster v BMW Australia Ltd

• 1. Representative Proceedings
  2. › Common fund order
  3. › Power to make interlocutory order binding group members
  4. › Presumptive entitlement of funder to percentage of judgment or compromise
  5. › Whether s 183 of Civil Procedure Act 2005 (NSW) confers power
  6. › Principle of legality inapplicable
  7. › Anthony Hordern principle inapplicable
  8. › Civil Procedure Act 2005 (NSW), s 183, Part 10
• 1. Constitutional Law (Cth)
  2. › Separation of powers
  3. › Judicial power
  4. › Whether common fund order an exercise of judicial power
  5. › Interlocutory order creating contingent rights and obligations
  6. › Whether hypothetical or creating new rights not based on legal principle
  7. › Constitution, Ch III
• 1. Constitutional Law (Cth)
  2. › Acquisition of property
  3. › Whether common fund order acquisition of property other than on just terms
  4. › Whether s 183 a law with respect to acquisition of property
  5. › Whether acquisition compulsive where group members retain right to opt out
  6. › Constitution, s 51(xxxi)
• 1. Statutes
  2. › Construction
  3. › General power conferred on court
  4. › Whether to be read subject to implied restriction
  5. › Principle that powers conferred on courts not to be narrowly construed
  6. › Statutes 'always speaking'
  7. › Civil Procedure Act 2005 (NSW), s 183

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