Full Court Minute Books

Case M101/2016

Timbercorp Finance Pty Ltd (in Liquidation)  v. Tomes

Case No.

M101/2016

Related matter:

M98/2016 – Timbercorp Finance Pty Ltd (In Liquidation) v. Collins & Anor

Case Information

Lower Court Judgment

1/06/2016 Supreme Court of Victoria (Court of Appeal) (Warren CJ, Santamaria and McLeish JJA)

[2016] VSCA128

Catchwords

Procedure – Group proceedings - Part 4A of the Supreme Court Act 1986 (Vic) – Managed investment schemes – Collapse of schemes – Group proceeding on behalf of investors in schemes – Defendants include lender to investors – Dismissal of group proceeding – opt out provisions – Subsequent recovery proceedings by lender against group memebers – Group members had not opted out of group proceeding – Group members raised individual claims and defences in recovery proceedings – Whether failure to opt out of group proceeding precluded group members from raising individual claims and defences in recovery proceedings.

Procedure – Group proceedings – Anshun estoppel – Test – Whether unreasonable of group members not to have raised individual claims and defences during group proceeding – Whether group members estopped from raising individual claims and defenced in subsequent proceedings by a reason of failure to raise individual claims and defences in the group proceedings – Port of Melbourne Authority v Anshun Pty Ltd (1981) 147 CLR 589.

Procedure – Group proceedings – Abuse of process – Failure of plaintiff of group members to raise individual claims in group proceedings – Whether raising individual claims and defences by group members in subsequent proceedings is oppressive or brings administration of justice into disrepute.

Short particulars

Documents

28/07/2016 Hearing (SLA, Brisbane)

01/08/2016 Notice of appeal

05/08/2016 Written submissions (Appellant)

05/08/2016 Chronology (Appellant)

19/08/2016 Written submissions (Respondent)

26/08/2016 Reply

01/09/2016 Hearing (Full Court, Canberra) (Audio-visual recording)

09/11/2016 Judgment (Judgment summary)