Cacciola v Serco Australia Pty Ltd [2025] FCA 361
EMPLOYMENT AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS - appeal from decision of Industrial Magistrates Court of Western Australia - alleged contraventions of enterprise agreement by underpayment - alleged contraventions...
View ArticleAustralian Agrivision Pty Ltd v Wolstenholme (Stay) [2025] FCA 364
PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE – where second respondent seeks stay of the proceeding – where second respondent alleges substantial overlap with a proceeding involving himself and his ex-de facto partner in...
View ArticleJele Chemists Pty Ltd v Australian Community Pharmacy Authority [2025] FCAFC 54
ADMINISTRATIVE LAW – proper construction of s 10(3)(c) of National Health (Australian Community Pharmacy Authority Rules) Determination 2018 (Cth) (National Health Rules) – whether development approval...
View ArticleIbardaloza v Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs [2025] FCA 356
MIGRATION - application for judicial review of Minister's decision under s 501BA of the Migration Act 1958 (Cth) - where applicant alleged jurisdictional error in relation to Minister's satisfaction...
View ArticleMoli v Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs [2025] FCA 350
MIGRATION - application for judicial review of Minister's decision under s 501BA of the Migration Act 1958 (Cth) - where applicant alleged jurisdictional error in relation to formation of Minister's...
View ArticleAMO25 v Administrative Review Tribunal [2025] FCA 365
ADMINISTRATIVE LAW – Appeal from Administrative Review Tribunal (Tribunal) under s 172 of Administrative Review Tribunal Act 2024 (Cth) in relation to assessment of child support under Child Support...
View ArticleAustralian Securities and Investments Commission v Green County Pty Ltd...
CONSUMER LAW – alleged contraventions of National Consumer Credit Protection Act 2009 (Cth) (NCCP Act) and National Credit Code (Code) – where first and second respondents engaged in “credit activity”...
View ArticleUniversity of New England v Boerner (Costs Review) [2025] FCA 368
COSTS – review of Registrar’s decision to order costs against prospective respondents – where prospective applicant was substantially successful in application for preliminary discovery – whether...
View ArticleCommunications, Electrical, Electronic, Energy, Information, Postal, Plumbing...
PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE – application to strike out allegations of fraud in the applicant’s statement of claim – where applicant alleges non-disclosure of information by respondent amounted to fraud on...
View ArticlePaco Nominees Pty Ltd v Ella Secret Australia Pty Ltd (Default Judgment)...
TRADE MARKS – default judgment – respondents’ failure to comply with orders and appear – claim of trade mark infringement – default judgment granted PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE – application for default...
View ArticleBrindle v Centrelink [2025] FCA 374
PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE – Whether the Applicant’s originating application discloses a reasonable cause of action – Where the Applicant failed to provide details of service of the Respondent – Where the...
View ArticleMSA 4X4 Accessories Pty Ltd v Clearview Towing Mirrors Pty Ltd (Discovery)...
PATENTS – discovery – significant claim for damages following liability judgment – discovery application successful with modifications made to categories of discovery sought
View ArticleAMO25 v Administrative Review Tribunal (No 2) [2025] FCA 376
PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE – Costs – Self-represented litigants – Where appeal allowed – Where Applicant sought indemnity costs only against Third Respondent – Whether Applicant entitled to recover costs...
View ArticleGreenbot Pty Ltd v Clean Energy Regulator [2025] FCA 369
PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE – application to set aside interlocutory injunction – decision by Clean Energy Regulator to permanently suspend applicant’s registration as a registered person under Renewable...
View ArticleCharlie v State of Queensland [2025] FCAFC 55
NATIVE TITLE – where primary judge on separate question upheld validity of special leases granted by the Governor in Council over land excluded from consent determination – whether special leases were...
View ArticlePF1 Solutions Pty Ltd (in liq) v Doshi, in the matter of PF1 Solutions Pty...
PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE – application for security for costs – quantum of security to be ordered only issue – security in an amount of $200,000 to be provided – application for enforcement of earlier...
View ArticleMalone on behalf of the Western Kangoulu People v State of Queensland (No 6)...
NATIVE TITLE – application for determination of native title – separate questions concerning the existence of native title – where trial of separate questions conducted between the applicant and the...
View ArticleAitken v Commissioner of Taxation [2025] FCA 372
TAXATION — appeal under s 14ZZ of the Taxation Administration Act 1953 (Cth) — where applicant lodged an objection to an amended assessment for the 2016 income year and the respondent did not allow the...
View ArticleLivingstone, in the matter of Vertical 4 Pty Ltd (Administrators Appointed)...
CORPORATIONS – application by administrators under s 439A of the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth) (Act) to extend convening period of the second meeting of creditors – application for ancillary orders under...
View ArticleAustralian Competition and Consumer Commission v Qteq Pty Ltd [2025] FCA 371
COMPETITION – alleged attempts to enter into contracts, arrangements or understandings with companies in the coal seam gas industry that would be contraventions of s 44ZZRJ/45AJ of the Competition and...
View ArticleDGD17 v Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs [2025] FCA 383
MIGRATION – protection visa application refused by a delegate of the Minister – review by the Immigration Assessment Authority affirmed the decision – judicial review application to the Federal Circuit...
View ArticleLottah Mining Pty Ltd (in liq) v Campbell-Wilson (Liquidator), in the matter...
CORPORATIONS – orders sought by liquidators under s 90-15 of the Insolvency Practice Schedule (Corporations) that liquidators are justified and would be acting reasonably in giving effect to settlement...
View ArticleMcDonald v Commonwealth of Australia [2025] FCA 380
REPRESENTATIVE PROCEEDINGS – application for court approval of settlement under s 33V of the Federal Court of Australia Act 1976 (Cth) – claim for non-payment or under-payment of wages to Aboriginal...
View ArticleHarris v Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Commission [2025] FCA 381
ADMINISTRATIVE LAW – application for review under s 44 of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal Act 1975 (Cth) – application for review under ss 5 and 6 of the Administrative Decisions (Judicial Review...
View ArticleFreeman, in the matter of Regional Express Holdings Ltd (administrators...
CORPORATIONS – application for limitation of administrators’ personal liability pursuant to s 447A of the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth) and directions under s 90-15 of the Insolvency Practice Schedule...
View ArticleDZJ25 v Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs [2025] FCA 386
PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE – application for urgent interlocutory injunction to restrain removal of applicant from Australia – statutory duty to remove as soon as reasonably practicable – power of court to...
View ArticleAustralian Securities and Investments Commission v Web3 Ventures Pty Ltd...
CORPORATIONS – where primary judge held that a product that allowed customers to “loan” specified cryptocurrency in return for interest paid at a fixed rate was a “financial product” because it...
View ArticleHassan v Minister for Home Affairs [2025] FCAFC 57
TORT – where appellant medically evacuated to Australia from offshore immigration detention in Papua New Guinea – where appellant requested removal to Papua New Guinea under s 198(1) of Migration Act...
View ArticleMerchant v Commissioner of Taxation [2025] FCAFC 56
TAXATION – schemes to reduce tax pursuant to Part IVA of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936 (Cth) – where vendor incurs a substantial capital loss on related party share sale but there is no effective...
View ArticleXu v Salter Brothers Asset Management Pty Ltd (No 2) [2025] FCA 379
COSTS – whether costs should be awarded on a party and party or indemnity basis – whether refusal of Calderbank offers unreasonable – no order for indemnity costs – costs ordered on a lump sum basis
View ArticleSave Wallum Incorporated v Clarence Property Corporation Limited (No 4)...
EVIDENCE –application under r 39.04 of the Federal Court Rules 2011 to set aside evidential ruling excluding the opinion evidence of an expert witness – where expert witness cross-examined on their...
View ArticleRimfire Energy Pty Ltd v BSF Co Pty Ltd (No 2) [2025] FCA 384
CONTRACTS – whether, under Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) for the construction of two facilities in the Northern Territory and the supply of electricity from those facilities, the Owners gave to the...
View ArticleQuickstep Holdings Limited, in the matter of Quickstep Holdings Limited (No...
CORPORATIONS – scheme of arrangement – second court hearing – where orders sought under ss 411(4)(b) and 411(12) of the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth) for approval of scheme of arrangement and exemption...
View ArticleBurt v University of Sydney [2025] FCA 393
PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE – application for extension of time and leave to appeal interlocutory judgment dismissing application to strike out a strike out application – whether decision attended by...
View ArticleMillynn, in the matter of Sagerland Pty Ltd v Sagerland Pty Ltd [2025] FCA 391
CORPORATIONS – application to wind up company pursuant to s 233 or s 461 of Corporations Act 2001 (Cth) – where sole director and shareholder is deceased – where plaintiff is administrator of sole...
View ArticleDe Grey Mining Ltd, in the matter of De Grey Mining Ltd (No 2) [2025] FCA 396
CORPORATIONS – application for approval of scheme of arrangement under s 411(4) of the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth) – script takeover scheme – post-first court hearing communications with scheme members...
View ArticleAustralian Securities and Investments Commission v MyWealth Manager Financial...
CORPORATIONS – receivers and managers – release of receivers and managers following completion of receivership – service of interlocutory application – persons located extraterritorially – failure to...
View ArticleAustralian Securities and Investments Commission v Secure Investments Pty Ltd...
CORPORATIONS – receivers and managers – release of receivers and managers – service of interlocutory application – recipient is incarcerated – receipt of documents established – appropriate to dispense...
View ArticleCommissioner of Taxation v White (No 3) [2025] FCA 392
PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE – objection to tendency evidence – where applicant seeks to admit evidence for non-tendency and tendency purposes – where evidence is directly relevant to a fact in issue and the...
View ArticleWilson v Secretary, Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (No 2)...
PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE – application by applicant for further discovery following the filing of an amended pleading and service of evidence by both parties – application resisted by the respondent on...
View ArticleWard, in the matter of Platinum Quest Pty Ltd (in liq) v OJMAC Pty Ltd as...
CORPORATIONS – liquidators – company once a trustee – application made for remuneration – remuneration to be paid from trust assets for work done in capacity as court appointed receiver – application...
View ArticleAustralian Securities and Investments Commission v DOD Bookkeeping Pty Ltd...
CORPORATIONS – where the defendant as the holder of an Australian financial services licence, contravened: (1) s 961K(2) of the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth) by reason of its representatives contravening...
View ArticleSanofi v Amgen Inc. (No 3) [2025] FCA 387
PATENTS – appeal from decision of Delegate of Commissioner of Patents holding oppositions to patent applications unsuccessful – applications for patents including claims to isolated monoclonal...
View ArticleHealth Services Union v Asmar (No 4) [2025] FCA 403
PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE – leave to amend concise statement and originating application – nature and purpose of concise statement – whether events occurring after proceedings filed are relevant to...
View ArticlePLCP v Minister for Immigration, Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs [2025]...
MIGRATION – application for judicial review of decision of Administrative Appeals Tribunal affirming decision under s 501CA(4) of the Migration Act 1958 (Cth) not to revoke cancellation of visa –...
View ArticleKeenan, in the matter of Prospero Markets Pty Ltd (In liq) [2025] FCA 390
CORPORATIONS – application for directions under s 90-15 of the Insolvency Practice Schedule (Corporations) – application for judicial advice under s 63 of the Trustee Act 1925 (NSW) – whether...
View ArticleTGRN v Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs [2025] FCA 405
MIGRATION – application for extension of time for filing of application for judicial review – error in Tribunal’s decision conceded – no appearance by the applicant – application dismissed for...
View ArticleSunshineLoans Pty Ltd v Australian Securities and Investments Commission (No...
COSTS - indemnity costs sought by respondent - where appellant's appeal substantively unsuccessful - where respondent alleged unreasonable conduct by appellant in bringing the appeal, formulating...
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