The power to amend a GCO under s 33ZDA(3) is not an occasion for a de novo hearing; it should only be exercised if circumstances now mean amendment is appropriate or necessary to ensure justice is done. Courts will expect evidence of ROI, IRR, hourly rate costs, and comparisons with litigation funding commissions when assessing GCO proportionality. Settlement administration costs fall outside the scope of a GCO. The necessity of nunc pro tunc authorisation orders under s 33ZF is questionable following Brewster, as approval under s 33V(1) and the description of bound group members under s 33ZB are sufficient to bind group members to settlement releases.
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