Onus v Registrar of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Corporations (No 2)...
PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE - where notice issued for the purposes of s 487-10(1) of the Corporations (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) Act 2006 (Cth) held not to be valid and effective -...
View ArticleWhelan v Cigarette & Gift Warehouse Pty Ltd [2017] FCA 1534
INDUSTRIAL LAW alleged contraventions of s 340(1) Fair Work Act 2009 whether there was a workplace right whether complaint or inquiry about bonuses is a workplace right whether complaint or...
View ArticleBYD16 v Minister for Immigration and Border Protection [2017] FCA 1535
MIGRATION - appeal from decision of Federal Circuit Court - whether Tribunal's decision affected by jurisdictional error - whether Tribunal made findings without evidence -whether appellant was a...
View ArticleConstruction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union v BHP Coal (No 2) [2017] FCA...
PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE - application for non-standard discovery - r 20.15 of the Federal Court Rules 2011 (Cth) - application pursuant to r 1.34 to dispense with compliance with r 20.13(3) - whether...
View ArticleAustralian Workers' Union v Registered Organisations Commissioner [2017] FCA...
PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE - applications to set aside subpoenas to produce documents - where substantive proceeding concerns whether an administrative decision was made for an improper political purpose...
View ArticleVili v Assistant Minister for Immigration and Border Protection [2017] FCA 1556
MIGRATION - application for judicial review of Minister's decision to cancel a visa on character grounds under s 501(2) of the Migration Act 1958 (Cth) - discretionary power of Minister to cancel visa...
View ArticleKnight v Visionstream Australia Pty Ltd (No 2) [2017] FCA 1562
COSTS - where appellant successful on appeal - whether circumstances exist to warrant the making of a costs order in accordance with s 570(2) of the Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth)
View ArticleButler v Setches [2017] FCA 1538
INDUSTRIAL LAW - application under s 164 of the Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Act 2009 (Cth) - where decisions of the National Council of the Communications, Electrical, Electronic, Energy,...
View ArticleAkiba on behalf of the Torres Strait Regional Seas Claim v State of...
NATIVE TITLE - authorisation of new applicant and s 66B application - whether Court should order steps to be taken towards authorisation process in the absence of progress being made - steps ordered...
View ArticlePearson on behalf of the Tjayuwara Unmuru Native Title Holders v State of...
NATIVE TITLE - compensation application - consent determination - consideration of matters relevant to approving proposed determination under s 87 of the Native Title Act 1993 (Cth) - application...
View ArticleDeputy Commissioner of Taxation v Chemical Trustee Limited (No 10) [2017] FCA...
TAXATION - consent orders - receiver's power of sale -whether judgment debt excludes judgment interest - application dismissed
View ArticleCapic v Ford Motor Company of Australia Limited (No 4) [2017] FCA 1575
PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE - representative proceedings - application for Court endorsement of proposed § 1782 application under Title 28 of the United States Code - principles of case management - whether...
View ArticleMentha v Epic Energy South Australia Pty Ltd, in the matter of ACN 004 410...
BANKRUPTCY AND INSOLVENCY - proofs of debt; where companies subject to deeds of company arrangement owe amounts to various lenders; where debts are unsecured; where debts are guaranteed by solvent...
View ArticleSingh v Minister for Immigration and Border Protection [2017] FCAFC 220
MIGRATION - appeal from a decision of the Federal Circuit Court - where the trial judge dismissed an application for judicial review of a decision of the then-Migration Review Tribunal - where the...
View ArticleVodafone Hutchison Australia Pty Ltd v Australian Competition Consumer...
ADMINISTRATIVE LAW - judicial review challenge to validity of public inquiry by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission purportedly under Pt 25 of the Telecommunications Act 1997 (Cth) into...
View ArticleCompton v Ramsay Health Care Australia Pty Ltd [2017] FCAFC 221
BANKRUPTCY - personal insolvency agreements - whether proceedings relating to the creditor's petition were stayed by force of s 189AAA of the Bankruptcy Act 1966 (Cth) - where debtor signed an...
View ArticleBVC15 v Minister for Immigration and Border Protection [2017] FCAFC 223
MIGRATION - application for protection visa - procedural fairness - where the Secretary contravened the obligation in s 418(3) of the Migration Act 1958 (Cth) to give to the Registrar of the Refugee...
View ArticleDirector of Consumer Affairs Victoria v Domain Register Pty Ltd [2017] FCA 1603
CONSUMER LAW misleading or deceptive conduct knowledge to be imputed to target audience respondent sent unsolicited notices to businesses offering to register a .com domain name equivalent to...
View ArticleAustralian Securities & Investments Commission, in the matter of MG...
CORPORATIONS Contravention of s 674(2) of the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth); Facts agreed between the parties including agreement that the contravention was serious for the purpose of section 1317G(1A)...
View ArticleSumner v State of South Australia (Ngarrindjeri Native Title Claim Part A)...
NATIVE TITLE - removal of persons who constitute the Applicant - application to change the designation of the proceedings so as to honour a previous member of claim group.
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