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Conditions necessary to sustain a representative action
Effect of a representative action
Effect of failure to state on the writ and pleadings that the parties are suing or are being sued in their representative capacity
Essence of a representative action
How authority of a person to bring a representative action can be challenged
Meaning of a representative action
Nature of a representative action
Necessary ingredient to maintain a representative action
Need for the writ and pleadings to state that the parties are suing or are being sued in their representative capacity
Position of the law on representative action
Position of the law on representative action
Position of the law where all named plaintiffs to a representative action die
Principles on representative actions
The only burden cast upon the plaintiffs in a representative action
The party with the onus of proof where the authority of persons who have brought an action in a representative capacity is challenged
The position of the law on the proper procedure for challenging a person's authority to represent a group in a suit
The principle that a named party in a representative action is dominus litis
The principles on which representative actions are founded
The proper order to be made where a representative action was wrongly filed
The rationale for representative actions
The rationale for the rule on representative actions
The rule that the adverse party lacks the locus standi to challenge the authority of named plaintiffs to represent the unnamed plaintiffs in a representative action
The rule that the persons who are to be represented and the persons representing them must have the same interest
What the rule as to representative actions entails
When a representative action would be appropriate
Whether a person represented in an action can object to such representation
Whether a plaintiff must seek the leave of all the defendants to sue them in a representative capacity
Whether a representative action dies with the party representing the others
Whether a representative action is proper where the interests of the plaintiffs are not common
Whether an action brought on behalf of a third party and the plaintiffs is a representative action
Whether an appeal in a representative action abates on the death of all the parties named in that process
Whether an application to defend a suit in a representative capacity can be made by either party
Whether every member of the class represented by the named plaintiffs is a party to the representative action
Whether it is only the named plaintiff or defendant that is a party to a representative action
Whether it is only the named plaintiff that is a party to a representative action
Whether persons who are being represented, whether named or not, are deemed parties to the action bound by the determination of the case
Whether representation would be allowed where interests or liabilities of an association of persons were too diverse
Whether the fact that a member of a community took part in a court action either as a party or a witness is enough ground for the conclusion that the community to which that member belongs should be identified with that court action
Whether the named plaintiff in a representative action can withdraw secretly
Whether the party being represented by a representative action must be a juristic person
Whether the that a positive outcome of a case may inure to the benefit of people other than the plaintiffs makes it a class or representative action
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