Federal Court of Australia
FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA
Compton v Ramsay Health Care Australia Pty Ltd [2017] FCAFC 221 Appeal from: Ramsay Health Care Australia Pty Ltd v Compton (No 2) [2017] FCA 629
File number: NSD 886 of 2017
Judges: SIOPIS, GLEESON AND MOSHINSKY JJ
Date of judgment: 21 December 2017
Catchwords: BANKRUPTCY – personal insolvency agreements – whether proceedings relating to the creditor's petition were stayed by force of s 189AAA of the Bankruptcy Act 1966 (Cth) – where debtor signed an authority naming and authorising a registered trustee to call a meeting of the debtor's creditors and to take control of the debtor's property pursuant to s 188 of the Act – whether jurisdictional nexus requirements satisfied – whether debtor was "ordinarily resident in Australia" for the purposes of s 188
Legislation: Bankruptcy Act 1966 (Cth), ss 40, 43, 55, 57, 187, 187A, 188-211, 215-232, 244, 247 Bankruptcy Regulations 1996 (Cth), regs 1.03, 13.02, 13.03, 13.07, 13.10
Cases cited: Agar v McCabe (2014) 67 MVR 81; [2014] VSC 309 Agar v McCabe (2015) 72 MVR 130; [2015] VSC 378 Agar v Petrov [2015] VSC 168 Akbarali v Brent London Borough Council [1983] 2 AC 309 Battenberg v Restom (2007) 5 ABC(NS) 533; [2007] FCAFC 195 Commissioners of Inland Revenue v Lysaght [1928] AC 234 Compton v Ramsay Health Care Australia Pty Ltd (2016) 246 FCR 508 Director of Public Prosecutions (NSW) v Zhang (2007) 48 MVR 78; [2007] NSWSC 308 Director of Public Prosecutions (Vic) v Cummings (2006) 46 MVR 84; [2006] VSC 327 Levene v Commissioners of Inland Revenue [1928] AC 217 Logue v Hansen Technologies Ltd (2003) 125 FCR 590 Machirus v Police [1983] NZLR 764 Mathai v Kwee (2005) 3 ABC(NS) 268; [2005] FCA 932 Napiat Pty Ltd v Salfinger (No 7) (2011) 202 FCR 264 Ramsay Health Care Australia Pty Limited v Adrian Compton [2015] NSWSC 163 Ramsay Health Care Australia Pty Ltd v Compton [2015] FCA 1207 Ramsay Health Care Australia Pty Ltd v Compton [2017] FCA 612 Ramsay Health Care Australia Pty Ltd v Compton (2017) 345 ALR 534 Re Mendonca; Ex parte Commissioner of Taxation (1969) 15 FLR 256 Re Taylor; Ex parte Natwest Australia Bank Ltd (1992) 37 FCR 194 Re Vassis; Ex parte Leung (1986) 9 FCR 518 Turner v Trevorrow (1994) 49 FCR 566
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