Deputy Commissioner of Taxation, in the matter of WA Beard Pty Ltd v WA Beard...
CORPORATIONS application pursuant to s 482(1) of the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth) to terminate a winding up in insolvency where not necessary to terminate winding up pursuant to the Corporations Act...
View ArticleHerold v Seally (No 4) [2017] FCA 957
PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE - application for leave to file an amended statement of claim
View ArticleHerold v Seally (No 3) [2017] FCA 956
COSTS - application for different costs order following hearing of competing interlocutory applications - where both interlocutory applications dismissed- whether apportionment of costs appropriate on...
View ArticleHelicopter Tjungarrayi on behalf of the Ngurra Kyanta People v State of...
NATIVE TITLE - determination of native title over Part B area - where Part A already subject of consent determination - where Court resolved prior outstanding extinguishment issue and held s 47B of the...
View ArticleAIA Australia Ltd v Lancaster [2017] FCA 962
SUPERANNUATION - appeal against determination by Superannuation Complaints Tribunal - entitlement of fund member to income protection benefit under insurance policy held by fund - calculation of...
View ArticleArnold v Australian Securities and Investments Commission [2017] FCA 936
CORPORATIONS - application for reinstatement of company registration under s 601AH of Corporations Act 2001 (Cth) - where no resident director - where review proceedings in Administrative Appeals...
View ArticleCommissioner of Patents v AbbVie Biotechnology Ltd [2017] FCAFC 129
PATENTS - extension of term - pharmaceutical substance produced by recombinant DNA technology - whether term can be extended where claims are in the form of Swiss type claims
View ArticleSZVYG v Minister for Immigration and Border Protection [2017] FCA 955
MIGRATION application for Protection (Class XA) visa whether Federal Circuit Court erred in failing to find jurisdictional error in Tribunals decision where error asserted in Tribunals...
View ArticleSZVCZ v Minister for Immigration and Border Protection [2017] FCAFC 130
MIGRATION - judicial review of decision of Refugee Review Tribunal - refusal of application for protection visa - whether particular information was relied on by the Tribunal - whether such information...
View ArticleSZVZN v Minister for Immigration and Border Protection [2017] FCA 954
MIGRATION application for Protection (Class XA) visa whether Federal Circuit Court erred in failing to find jurisdictional error in Tribunals decision whether Tribunal considered a submission...
View ArticleMcKay Super Solutions Pty Ltd (Trustee) v Bellamy's Australia Ltd [2017] FCA 947
REPRESENTATIVE PROCEEDINGS - two overlapping open class proceedings against the same respondent - substantially the same claims and substantially the same causes of action - application for a permanent...
View ArticleLane (Trustee), in the matter of Lee (Bankrupt) v Deputy Commissioner of...
BANKRUPTCY AND INSOLVENCY - trustee in bankruptcy's right to insolvent trustee's right of exoneration - discussion of the nature of the right of exoneration - whether the funds are to be distributed to...
View ArticleBis Industries Limited v Dale (No 2) [2017] FCA 972
PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE - costs - discretion to award costs - departure from usual rule that successful litigant is awarded costs in their favour
View ArticleJones v Treasury Wine Estates Limited (No 3) [2017] FCA 961
PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE - whether the evidence of a witness ordinarily resident in the USA should be given by video link - application opposed - application dismissed with costs
View ArticleFitzgibbon v Turnbull [2017] FCA 968
ADMINISTRATIVE LAW - freedom of information - application for access to document (Coalition Agreement) - claim by Minister that the document was not an official document of the Minister within the...
View ArticlePerry v Commonwealth of Australia [2017] FCA 943
CONTRACTS - whether contract between the applicant and the Commonwealth - whether Commonwealth breached that contract by failing to pay the applicant a certain amount upon voluntary retrenchment -...
View ArticleSwiss Re Life & Health Australia Ltd v Public Trustee of Queensland...
INSURANCE - life insurance - application under s 215 of the Life Insurance Act 1995 (Cth) - beneficiary of life insurance policy charged with murder of life insured - applicant seeks to pay death...
View ArticleBVZ16 v Minister for Immigration and Border Protection [2017] FCA 958
MIGRATION - visa - refusal of visa - fast track reviewable decision by the Immigration Assessment Authority (IAA) - Migration Act 1958 (Cth) Pt 7AA - considering new information in exceptional...
View ArticleCDZ16 v Minister for Immigration and Border Protection [2017] FCA 967
ADMINISTRATIVE LAW - judicial review - application dismissed MIGRATION - protection (class XA) visa - fear of persecution for reason of membership of religion and particular social group - whether...
View ArticleRomero v Farstad Shipping (Indian Pacific) Pty Ltd (No 4) [2017] FCAFC 126
COSTS - where appeal dismissed but partial variations made as to the costs order in favour of appellant - whether usual costs orders should apply - where appellant claims costs on indemnity basis -...
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