Tamaya Resources Limited (in liq) v Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu (A Firm) [2016] FCAFC 2

FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA

Tamaya Resources Limited (in liq) v Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu (A Firm) [2016] FCAFC 2 Appeal from: Tamaya Resources Limited (in liq) v Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu (A Firm), in the matter of Tamaya Resources Limited (in liq) [2015] FCA 1098

File numbers: NSD 1271 of 2015 NSD 1272 of 2015

Judges: GILMOUR, PERRAM & BEACH JJ

Date of judgment: 15 January 2016

Catchwords: PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE – appeal from decision declining to grant leave to amend pleadings – whether primary judge's discretion miscarried in House v The King sense – whether primary judge failed to accord procedural fairness – whether primary judge erred in finding that proposed claim under s 1041E of the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth) liable to be struck out – consideration of relevant delay in bringing amendment application and what constitutes sufficient explanation thereof

Legislation: Corporations Act 2001 (Cth) s 1041E Federal Court of Australia Act 1976 (Cth) ss 37M, 37N Federal Court Rules 2011 (Cth) rr 8.21(1), 16.53

Cases cited: Aon Risk Services Australia Ltd v Australian National University (2009) 239 CLR 175 Birkett v James [1978] AC 297 Bomanite Pty Ltd v Slatex Corp Aust Pty Ltd (1991) 32 FCR 379 Caason Investments Pty Ltd v Cao [2015] FCAFC 94 Cement Australia Pty Ltd v Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (2010) 187 FCR 261 Cropper v Smith (1884) 26 Ch D 700 GSA Industries Pty Ltd v NT Gas Ltd (1990) 24 NSWLR 710 House v The King (1936) 55 CLR 499 Ketteman v Hansel Properties Ltd [1987] AC 189 Mondello v Mondello Farms Pty Ltd [2012] FCA 1062 Selig v Wealthsure Pty Ltd (2015) 320 ALR 47 State Bank of New South Wales v Brown (2001) 38 ACSR 715