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Bogan & Anor v. The Estate of Peter John Smedley (Deceased) & Ors

Case No. M21/2024
Case information

Catchwords

Practice and Procedure – Transfer of proceedings – Group costs order – Where Victoria legislated to permit costs orders calculated as percentage of judgment or settlement in representative proceedings – Where provision unique to Victoria – Where appellants commenced representative proceedings in Supreme Court of Victoria against respondents – Where fifth respondent applied to transfer proceedings to Supreme Court of NSW under s 1337H of Corporations Act 2001 (Cth) – Where appellants applied for group costs order ("GCO") under s 33ZDA of Supreme Court Act 1986 (Vic) – Where Supreme Court directed GCO application be determined before transfer application, and later made GCO – Where fifth respondent's first removal application to High Court dismissed –  Where fifth respondent referred transfer application to Victorian Court of Appeal for provision of reasons without final orders – Where Court of Appeal held proceedings should not be transferred to Supreme Court of NSW – Where fifth respondent successfully made second removal application to High Court – Whether GCO made under s 33ZDA of Supreme Court Act relevant in deciding whether to transfer proceedings to another court under s 1337H(2) of Corporations Act – Whether GCO will remain in force if proceedings are transferred to Supreme Court of NSW – Whether Supreme Court of NSW would have power to vary or revoke GCO if proceedings transferred – Whether proceedings should be transferred to Supreme Court of NSW.

Documents

07/03/2024 Determination

18/03/2024 Cause Removed

18/04/2024 Written submissions (Fifth Respondent)

18/04/2024 Chronology (Fifth Respondent)

24/04/2024 Written submissions (First to Fourth Respondents)

21/05/2024 Written submissions (Applicants)

04/06/2024 Written submissions (Attorney-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, intervening)

11/08/2024 Reply (Fifth Respondent)

18/06/2024 Reply (Applicant)

16/08/2024 Hearing (Full Court, Adelaide) - VACATED

12/11/2024 Hearing (Full Court, Canberra) (Audio-visual recording)

12/11/2024 Outline of oral argument (Applicants)

12/11/2024 Outline of oral argument (First to Fourth Respondents)

12/11/2024 Outline of oral argument (Fifth Respondent)

12/11/2024 Outline of oral argument (Attorney-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, intervening)

12/03/2025 Judgment (Judgment summary