This highly practical text offers complete and comprehensive coverage of class action law in Australia. Addressing the wide ranging developments since the first

Multi-party litigation is a world-wide legal process, and the class action device is one of its best-known manifestations. As a means of providing access to jus

Government, in all of its guises, plays a significant, controversial, and sometimes hidden, role in class actions reform and litigation.

In class actions, attorneys effectively hire clients rather than act as their agent. Lawyer-financed, lawyer-controlled, and lawyer-settled, this entrepreneuria