Commercial & Corporations

About this NPA

The Commercial and Corporations National Practice Area (NPA) covers commercial and corporations disputes within federal jurisdiction.

This NPA consists of six Sub-areas and each has a dedicated webpage for specific information about proceedings in those Sub-areas:

22 Oct 2020: Australian Securities and Investments Commission v Commonwealth Bank of Australia [2020] FCA 1543
CONSUMER LAW - agreed contraventions of the National Consumer Credit Protection Act 2009 (Cth) - principles applicable to making declarations and imposition of a civil penalty - appropriateness of agreed orders and declarations - declarations made and civil penalty imposed
Judge: Murphy J
22 Oct 2020: Gulf Conveyor Systems Pty Limited v Gulf Integrated Solutions Pty Limited [2020] FCA 1534
PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE - application for leave to appeal against orders adopting referee report - where applicant contended referee and primary judge had not properly considered material before them - application dismissed
Judge: Thawley J
22 Oct 2020: Crowley v Worley Limited [2020] FCA 1522
CORPORATIONS - representative proceedings - listed securities - continuous disclosure obligations under ASX listing rule 3.1 - misleading or deceptive conduct relating to securities - whether WOR had a reasonable basis for earnings guidance statement - no contraventions found
Judge: Gleeson J

12 Nov 2019: Statutes and Equity
Paper presented at the Kenneth Sutton Lecture, by Chief Justice Allsop.
30 Oct 2019: AILA National Conference 2019 - Opening Address
Presented at the AILA National Conference, Hobart, by Chief Justice Allsop.
19 Oct 2019: Assessing the future: The challenge of running competition cases
Presented by Justice Middleton at the 17th Annual Competition Law and Economics Workshop, 'Competition law: The penicillin of public policy?'

Central Practice Note (CPN-1)
Commercial and Corporations Practice Note (C&C-1)
- Schedule 1: General and Personal Insolvency
- Schedule 2: Corporations and Corporate Insolvency
- Schedule 3: International Commercial Arbitration
Class Actions Practice Note (GPN-CA)

Forms:	Form 15 - Originating application Either Form 17 - Statement of claim OR NCF1 Concise statement Form 59 - Affidavit
Rules:	Federal Court Rules 8.01(1) , 8.04(1), 8.05(1)(a) and 29.02(1)

Specific forms, rules and other information applicable to each of the Sub-areas are set out on the individual Sub-area webpages.