TURNING THE SPOTLIGHT ON CLASS REPRESENTATIVES -EMPIRICAL INSIGHTS FROM DOWN UNDER by Jane Caruana, Vince Morabito

“…Ten months before Ontario became the first Canadian common law province to authorise American-style class actions, class actions became available in the Federal Court of Australia. In these two countries and in the United States, the named plaintiffs, commonly referred to as class representatives, are the only claimants formally in charge of the litigation, on the plaintiff side, whilst the outcome of class actions binds not only them and their opponents but also the claimants that they represent, the absent class members. …”
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Legal Implications relating to being "Entitled to Serve" as a Director: A South African–Australian Perspective by Neels Kilian

“…This article focusses on an Australian piece of legislation and interesting case law, as well as on how the Federal Court of Australia has applied Australia's Corporations Act, 2001 to characterise a person as a de facto director – that is, as a professed director whose appointment as such was defective. …”
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Claims relating to possession of a ship: Wilmington Trust Company (Trustee) v The Ship "Houston" [2016] FCA 1349 by Hafeez-Baig, MJ, English, J

“…In Wilmington Trust Company (Trustee) v The Ship “Houston” [2016] FCA 1349 the Federal Court of Australia considered the proper construction of s 4(2)(a)(i) of the Admiralty Act 1988 (Cth), which provides that claims ‘relating to possession of a ship’ are proprietary maritime claims, and therefore capable of supporting an action in rem against the vessel. …”

'Sewing the Fly Buttons on the Statute': Employee Inventions and the Employment Context by Pila, J

“…If accepted, such an argument would open the way to the kind of reasoning adopted by the Federal Court of Australia in University of Western Australia v Gray (2009) 179 FCR 346, where the nature of academic employment was held to require that inventions devised by academics be treated differently from those devised by their corporate counterparts. …”