Tarrant
v Australian Securities and Investments Commission (FCAFC)
- administrative law - imposition of 7-year ban on providing financial services
- review refused - appeal dismissed
(B G) |
Haider
v Hawaiian Punch Pty Ltd (FCA) - human rights - employer liable
for employee’s contravention of Racial
Discrimination Act 1975 (Cth)
(I G) |
Nominal
Defendant v Mokbel (NSWCA) - motor vehicle accident - evidence -
Nominal Defendant not liable - appeal allowed
(I) |
Mushroom
Composters Pty Ltd v IS & DE Robertson Pty Ltd (NSWCA)
- supply and purchase agreement - no binding contract - appeal allowed in part
(I B) |
Glencore
Queensland Ltd v Ventyx Pty Ltd (QSC) - contract - licence
agreement and support agreement - calculation of incremental fees - declaration
(I B) |
Tim
Gordon Property Group Pty Ltd v Helensvale Property Development Pty Ltd (QSC)
- pleadings - application to amend statement of claim to correctly name
plaintiff refused
(I C) |
Tasmanian
Perpetual Trustees Ltd v Attorney-General (TASSC) - Wills -
trusts - cy-prés scheme - limited variation to purposes specified in trust
approved
(B) |
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Tarrant
v Australian Securities and Investments Commission [2015] FCAFC 8
Full Court of the Federal Court of
Australia
Rares, Yates & Griffiths JJ
Administrative law - appellant appealed
from AAT’s dismissal of application for review of 7-year ban from providing financial
services imposed by ASIC - s1(2) Australian
Securities and Investments Commission Act 2001 (Cth) - ss50AAA, 920A, 945A,
947B, 947C, 1041E & 1041H Corporations
Act 2001 (Cth) - test for determination of sanction - Briginshaw standard - procedural unfairness - apprehended bias -
held: grounds of appeal against AAT failed - ASIC’s objections to appeal on
basis of incompetency upheld in relation to questions of law - appeal
dismissed.
Tarrant (B G)
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Haider
v Hawaiian Punch Pty Ltd
[2015] FCA 37
Federal Court of Australia
Mansfield J
Human rights - racial discrimination -
applicant alleged he was racially abused by respondent’s employee in breach of
ss9, 13 & 18C Racial Discrimination
Act 1975 (Cth) - matter brought before Human Rights Commission - matter
terminated on basis mediation of complaint to Commission not going to be
successful - applicant sought compensation for losses incurred due to emotional
stress and apology from respondent - held: Court satisfied as to jurisdictional
foundation for claim - contravening conduct proven by applicant’s evidence and
confirmatory material including film - respondent vicariously liable under s18E
for unlawful discrimination done by an employee - declaration - compensatory
damages assessed at $9000.
Haider (I G)
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Nominal
Defendant v Mokbel
[2015] NSWCA 3
Court of Appeal of New South Wales
Basten & Ward JJA; Adamson J
Motor vehicle accident - respondent
injured when lost control of car and collided with street pole - respondent
sued Nominal Defendant on basis there was unidentified vehicle and that
negligent driving of vehicle had caused him to lose control of car - trial
judge found in favour of respondent and assessed contributory negligence at 30%
- Nominal Defendant challenged finding on liability - both parties challenged
decision on contributory negligence - objective evidence - descriptive evidence
- held: Court should not have been satisfied an unidentified vehicle cut across
respondent’s vehicle without warning, forcing him to take evasive action -
appeal on liability upheld - evidence did not establish negligence on part of
any other driver so no question of contributory negligence arose - cross-appeal
dismissed.
Nominal Defendant (I)
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Mushroom
Composters Pty Ltd v IS & DE Robertson Pty Ltd [2015] NSWCA 1
Court of Appeal of New South Wales
Macfarlan & Gleeson JJA; Sackville
AJA
Contract - parties entered supply and purchase
agreement - trial judge found parties reached consensus on price and entered
binding contract for term of four years - appellant claimed parties never
reached final agreement on price and thus binding four year contract never came
into existence - appellant accepted contracts for first two years of four
period were concluded admissions - held: dealings between parties could not be
construed as agreement that overall price for four years would be fixed sum
subject to term requiring negotiation for review of royalty component - parties
never reached final agreement on essential term of alleged four year contract,
namely price to be paid - no binding and concluded four year contract - appeal
allowed in part.
Mushroom Composters Pty Ltd (I B)
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Glencore
Queensland Ltd v Ventyx Pty Ltd
[2015] QSC 14
Supreme Court of Queensland
P McMurdo J
Contract - parties disputed
interpretation of two contracts concerning use of computer software and
provision of services relating to use of the software - licence agreement and
support agreement - dispute concerned calculation of incremental licence fee
and incremental support fee - fees calculated according to number of employees
provided in employee report - purpose of quantifying fees by reference to
number of employees was to provide a level of remuneration to respondent
according to extent of use of and support for its software - applicant omitted
to include certain employees in employee count - respondent contended employee
count inaccurate - applicant sought declaratory relief - construction of
contract - held: applicant entitled to declaration that, upon proper
construction of agreements, employees should not be added to employee count or
taken into account in employee report under clauses of agreements.
Glencore Queensland Ltd (I B)
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Tim
Gordon Property Group Pty Ltd v Helensvale Property Development Pty Ltd [2015] QSC 19
Supreme Court of Queensland
Douglas J
Pleadings - plaintiff sought to file and
serve amended statement of claim - plaintiff sought to correctly name plaintiff
pursuant to r377 Uniform Civil Procedure
Rules 1999 (Qld) - rr69& 70 - held: application not simply question of
misnomer of plaintiff - plaintiff literally did not exist - effect of
application was to include it as party pursuant to r69 - where there was
application to include a new party, no reason to exclude requirement to support
such application by an affidavit pursuant to r70 - no affidavit provided -
application refused.
Tim Gordon Property Group Pty Ltd (I C)
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Tasmanian
Perpetual Trustees Ltd v Attorney-General
[2015] TASSC 1
Supreme Court of Tasmania
Wood J
Wills - trusts - executors
of testatrix’s estate sought pursuant to s6 Variation
of Trusts Act 1994 (Tas) that trust created by Will and regarded as
charitable trust be varied - applicant contended trust’s original purposes had
become impracticable and impossible to carry out - cy-prés scheme - charitable
purpose - proposed scheme and spirit of the gift - held: Court satisfied that a
limited variation to purposes specified in trust should be approved.
Tasmanian Perpetual Trustees Ltd (B)
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