Australian civil procedure / Bernard Cairns.

Pyrmont, N.S.W. : Thomson Reuters, 2024.

13th edition

201816

Civil procedure -- Australia.

1. Jurisdiction

2. Australian civil litigation system

3. Commencing proceedings

4. Service of process

5. Appearance and corresponding processes

6. Pleading

7. Pleading practice

8. Amendment

9. Parties and causes of action

10. Class actions

11. Discovery, interrogatories and inspection

12. Settlement

13. Summary disposal and discontinuance of litigation

14. Preserving and inspecting subject-matter of litigation

15. Interlocutory proceedings

16. Evidence

17. Trial

18. Costs

19. Appeals and new trials

20. Enforcing judgments.

This edition of Australian Civil Procedure, as with previous editions, surveys the foundational features and concepts of the Australian civil justice and civil litigation system. It examines the broad principles or guidelines that guide the court in exercising its powers and discretions under the rules of court and practice directions. Significant developments since the publication of the previous edition are covered and include: constitutional implications for state and federal jurisdiction; developments in case flow and case management, including significant practice directions and procedural innovations; the association between pleadings and case management; amending pleadings and limitation periods; parties and representative proceedings; discovery, including oral discovery and medical examinations; class actions, including the common interests of group members, the financial and management implications of open and closed proceedings, concurrent and overlapping proceedings, funding class actions and funder's commission, legal costs, settling or discontinuing a proceeding; summary dismissal under inherent jurisdiction; settlement. - Publisher's website.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Previous edition 2020.

9780455246253

cxxi, 974 pages ; 25 cm