1. This notice advises of the administrative arrangements for the handling of Corporations matters (being matters under the Corporations Act 2001, the Australian Securities and Investment Commission Act 2001 and the Cross Border Insolvency Act 2008) in the New South Wales District Registry of the Court. Corporate insolvency (not personal bankruptcy) is included.
This Notice takes effect from 31 October 2008 and replaces the previous Corporations Notice to Litigants and Practitioners numbered NSW 2008/1.
Urgent Corporations Matters
2. All urgent Corporations applications, including ex parte applications, are heard by a Corporations Duty Judge.
There are three Corporations Duty Judges in NSW. They and their Associates’ telephone numbers are:
Lindgren J 02 9230 8454
Emmett J 02 9230 8410
Jacobson J 02 9230 8492
Details of the Corporations Duty Judge rostered on duty are available daily in the published Court List or on Level 3 of the Law Courts Building.
Urgent applications may be made on any Court sitting day directly to the relevant Corporations Duty Judge by contacting that Judge’s Associate.
For urgent Corporation matters out of business hours or on days other than Court sitting days, the standard after-hours arrangements for the Federal Court apply under which parties may contact the Law Courts Security desk on (02) 9230 8025.
Non urgent Corporations Matters
3. General Corporations matters are initially made returnable before a Registrar on Fridays at 9.15 am. The Registrar deals with matters within the Registrar’s delegation which the Registrar considers appropriate to be dealt with by a Registrar.
Matters that are not within the Registrar’s delegation or which the Registrar does not consider appropriate to be dealt with by a Registrar are referred to the Corporations Duty Judge or allocated to a Corporations Panel Judge’s docket in the usual way.
4. The Corporations Duty Judge rostered on duty (see (2) above) sits on Fridays at 9.30 am to deal with matters referred from the Registrar’s 9.15am list and such other matters as are appropriate to be dealt with by the Corporations Duty Judge.
Corporations Panel
5. All Corporations matters that are not dealt with by the Corporations Duty Judge or by a Registrar will be allocated to the docket of a Judge who is a member of the Corporations Panel in NSW. The Corporations Panel in NSW consists of the following Judges:
Lindgren J (Panel Co-ordinator), Tamberlin J, Emmett J, Stone J, Jacobson J, Graham J, Rares J, Perram J, Foster J.
