Prof. Rachael Mulheron

B.Com, LLB (Hons), LLM (Adv) (UQ), D.Phil (Oxon)

Rachael Mulheron is a Professor at the Department of Law, Queen Mary University of London, where she has taught since 2004. Rachael’s principal field of academic research concerns class actions jurisprudence. Prior to her academic career, Rachael previously practised as a litigator solicitor in Brisbane, Australia.

Rachael has written extensively in the area of class actions, including the books, The Class Action in Common Law Legal Systems: A Comparative Perspective (2004), The Modern Cy-près Doctrine: Applications and Implications (2006), and Medical Negligence: Non-Patient and Third Party Claims (2010), and reports produced for governmental bodies, viz, Reform of Collective Redress in England and Wales: A Perspective of Need (2008) and Competition Law Cases under the Opt-out Regimes of Australia, Canada and Portugal (2008).

Rachael also regularly advises and assists various governmental and reform bodies on collective redress matters, both in England (e.g., the Jackson Costs Inquiry; the Government Equalities Office; the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform; the Civil Justice Council of England and Wales; the English Consumers’ Association); and elsewhere (the Hong Kong Law Reform Commission; the Victorian Law Reform Commission; the Consumers’ Taskforce of Gakushuin University in Tokyo, and the Federal Court of Canada Rules Committee), as well as private law firms which institute and defend class action cases..

Rachael was appointed as a member of the Civil Justice Council of England and Wales in 2009, and in that capacity, has recently served as a committee member of the rules-drafting sub-committee which had the task of preparing generic rules of court to support the implementation of the proposed collective action in the Financial Services Bill 2010.