Practitioners conducting representative proceedings in NSW cannot rely on s 183 of the Civil Procedure Act to obtain orders extinguishing unregistered group members' causes of action before settlement or judgment; class closure orders of the kind endorsed in Melbourne City Investments v Treasury Wine Estates are not available under the NSW regime.
The full text is available to signed-in members, including the 35 later cases that cite this judgment.
8 of the 35 citing cases carry a classified treatment. How each court treated it is available to signed-in members.