David William Pallas & Julie Ann Pallas as trustees for the Pallas Family Superannuation Fund v Lendlease Corporation Ltd

• 1. Practice and Procedure
  2. › Representative proceedings
  3. › Class actions
  4. › Notices to group members
  5. › Court's power to order notice
  6. › Whether notice foreshadowing exclusion of unregistered group members from settlement benefits authorised by statute
  7. › Civil Procedure Act 2005 (NSW), ss 175(1), 175(5), 175(6), 176(1)
• 1. Practice and Procedure
  2. › Representative proceedings
  3. › Class actions
  4. › Class closure orders
  5. › Opt out regime
  6. › Whether proposed notification subverts opt out scheme by requiring group members to opt in by registration
  7. › Civil Procedure Act 2005 (NSW), Pt 10
• 1. Statutory Interpretation
  2. › Context
  3. › General words in statute
  4. › Whether general power to order notice of 'any matter' at 'any stage' should be read down to conform with surrounding provisions and purpose of legislation
  5. › Civil Procedure Act 2005 (NSW), ss 175(5), 175(6)
• 1. Judgments and Orders
  2. › Court of Appeal
  3. › Departure from previous decisions
  4. › Intermediate appellate courts
  5. › Whether Court of Appeal should depart from its own earlier decision
  6. › Whether earlier decision 'plainly wrong'
  7. › Whether 'compelling reasons' to depart
  8. › Competing decisions of courts of co-ordinate jurisdiction

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