Dye v Commonwealth Securities Limited [2010] FCAFC 115

FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA

Dye v Commonwealth Securities Limited [2010] FCAFC 115 Citation: Dye v Commonwealth Securities Limited [2010] FCAFC 115

Appeal from: Application for leave to appeal: Dye v Commonwealth Securities Limited [2010] FCA 720 Dye v Commonwealth Securities Limited (No 3) [2010] FCA 903

Parties: VIVIENNE LOUISE DYE v COMMONWEALTH SECURITIES LIMITED (ACN 067 254 399)

File number: NSD 909 of 2010

Judges: MARSHALL, RARES AND FLICK JJ

Date of judgment: 1 September 2010

Catchwords: HIGH COURT AND FEDERAL COURT – suppression orders – application for suppression orders relating to the names of two persons, one male, one female – power to suppress names of persons by court exercised only when necessary to do so in the interests of justice – prior publication of male person's name in court document available to public inspection Held: The name of the female, but not the male, be suppressed.

Legislation: Federal Court of Australia Act 1976 (Cth) ss 17, 50 Federal Court Rules O 46 r 6

Cases cited: Catena v Australian Securities and Investment Commission [2010] FCA 598 Dickason v Dickason (1913) 17 CLR 50 E v Australian Red Cross Society (1991) 27 FCR 310 Grassby v The Queen (1989) 168 CLR 1 Guglielmin v Trescowthick (No 3) [2005] FCA 139, 220 ALR 535 Hogan v Australian Crime Commission [2010] HCA 21, 267 ALR 12 applied John Fairfax & Sons Limited v Police Tribunal of New South Wales (1986) 5 NSWLR 465 Llewellyn v Nine Network Australia Pty Ltd (2006) 154 FCR 293 Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs v Respondent A (1994) 54 FCR 333 Re Opes Prime Stockbroking Ltd (No 2) [2008] FCA 1578 SRD v Australian Securities Commission (1994) 52 FCR 187 The Food Improvers Pty Ltd v BGR Corporation Pty Ltd (No 2) (2006) 155 FCR 216 X v Australian Prudential Regulation Authority [2007] HCA 4, 226 CLR 630