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:
Latest Judgments
- 13 Dec 2019:
Endresz v Commonwealth of Australia (No 2) [2019] FCAFC 223
COSTS - application for respondents to pay costs of appeals on indemnity basis and the costs of trial - where respondent's rejection of appellants' Calderbank offer not unreasonable in all of the circumstances - where grounds of appeal were arguable but did not have good prospects of success - where appeals could not be allowed by consent unless…
Judge: Rares, Markovic and Charlesworth JJ - 13 Dec 2019:
Australian Securities and Investments Commission v MyWealth Manager Financial Services Pty Ltd (No 2) [2019] FCA 2107
CORPORATIONS - interlocutory application for appointment of receivers, restraints and travel bans - alleged unregistered managed investment scheme - ASIC investigation - most orders not opposed - whether evidence demonstrates that ASIC investigation is "in relation to an act or omission by a person, being an act or omission that constitutes or may …
Judge: Derrington J - 13 Dec 2019:
The Owners - Units Plan No. 3115 v The Trustees of the Master Builders Fidelity Fund Scheme [2019] FCAFC 227
STATUTORY INTERPRETATION - operation of fidelity fund scheme - where owners corporation made two claims under fidelity certificates issued by a fidelity fund approved under the Building Act 2004 (ACT) for loss flowing from alleged breaches of statutory warranties - where claims rejected by trustees of the fidelity fund on the basis the claims were …
Judge: Robertson, Anastassiou and O'Bryan JJ
Latest Speeches & Papers
- 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?' - 26 Sep 2019:
The intersection of companies and trusts
Paper presented at the Harold Ford Memorial Lecture, by Chief Justice Allsop. - 11 Jul 2019:
An Australian international commercial court - Not a bad idea or what a bad idea?
Presented at the Australian Bar Association’s Convergence 2019 Conference by Justice Colvin.
Practice Notes
- 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)
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Specific forms, rules and other information applicable to each of the Sub-areas are set out on the individual Sub-area webpages.
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