Noakes, Raymond Brian v J. Harvey Holmes & Son [1979] FCA 75
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Execution - Judgnent debt - Registration of judgment
in Norfolk Island ~ Application to set aside transfer of
shares py debtor to his wife - Summons not served on
company or wife - Whether transfer voluntary and
fraudulent - Whether void - Rights of creditors - Validity
of consequential orders ~- 13 Eliz. c.5,
RAYMOND BRIAN NOAKES v. J. HARVY HOLMES & SON
No. VG 15 of 1978
CORAM: Brennen, Dcane and Fisher JJ.
% August 1979.
Melbourne.
IN «THE FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA
GENERAL DIVISION No. VG 15 of 1978
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VICTORIA DISTRICT REGISTRY
ON APPEAL FROM THE SUPREME COURT OF
NORFOLK ISLAND
BETWEEN : RAYMOND BRIAN NGACES
Apoellant
(Second Defendant)
AND : J. HAaRVY HOLMes & SON
Respor.dent
(Plaintiff)
ORDER
The Court orcers that :-
1. The order of the Supreme Court of Norfolk Tsland made
at Melbourne on the 23rd day of December 1977 be varied
by -
(1) deleting Paragrephs 3, 5, 6 and 7(b) of che
sald order;
(it) deleting paragraph 4 of the said order and by
inserting 14 lieu tnereof the following:-
"And 1t 1s declared that the transfer of
the 9,991 shares in the capital of Transworld
Trading Limited from the second defendant to
his wife Sheilagh Julia Noakes 1s frauduzent
and void es against the creditors of che
plaantiff."; and
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(221) deleting ~he number and letter "7(a)" and inserting
in i1eu thereof the words: "Ané 1t is further
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2. Otherwise the appeal be dismissed.
3. The appellant pay to the respondent its costs of
this appeal to be taxed.
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IN THE FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA
GENERAL DIVISION
VICTORIA DISTRICT REGISTRY
No. VG 15 of 1978
ON APPFAL FROM THE SUPREME COURT OF
BETWEEN
NORFOLK ISLAND
RAYMOND BRIAN NOAKES
CORAM
4% August 1979.
REASONS
Appellant
(Second Defendant)
J. HARVY HOLMES & SON
Respondent
(Plaintiff)
Brennan, Deane & Fisher JJ.
FOR JUDGMENT
BRENNAN J: a
The respondent,
judgment creditor of the
appellant in the Supreme
which were alleged to be
a firm of stockbrokers, 1s the
appellant. It sued the
Court of Queensland for moneys
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due, as we were informed, upon
the appellant's oral promise to pay, or guarantee of
payment of, the price of
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some shares bought by the
appellant's son. The writ of summons was issued against
the appellant, his son and another defendant on 3 August
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1971. After some interlocutory proceedings in
which an appearance and a defence were struck out
for failure by the defendants to give discovery,
the respondent entered a default judgment against
the defendants in the sum of $14,022.40. The
judgment was entered on 30 July 1973. The judgmant
debt carried interest from the date of the entry of
judgment, and the judgment creditor had an order
that 1ts taxed costs be paid. The judgment lay
unsatisfied. The appellant lcft Queensland some
time after the judgment had been entered, and went
to live in New Zealand. Later again he visited
Norfolk Island and there took an interest in a
business venture, presently to be mentioned.
On 11 December 1975, the respondent applied
to have the judgment registered 1n the Supreme Court
of Norfolk Island and it was so registered, pursuant
to the Service and Execution of Process Act 1901.
Thereafter the judgment creditor could execute the
judgment as if it were a judgment of the Supreme Court
of Norfolk Island (s.20(2)).
After the judgment was registered, the
appellant applied to the Supreme Court of Queensland
to set the judgment aside. The application was
dismissed, except in relation to the appellant's son,
one of the co-defendants. The judgment against the
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appellant stood. The date of this unsuccessful
application 1s not unimportant: it was 9 December 1976.
The appellant instituted an appeal to the Full
Court of the Supreme Court of Queenslan? against the
dismissal cf his appiication to set aside the gudgmeat,
but the Full Court dismissed the anpeal for want of
prosecutionon 28 March 1977. On 20 May 1977 the
appellant applied to the Supreme Court of Norfolk Island
to set aside the registration of the judgment. On 27 May,
that application was dismissea. Although an appeal
against the dismissal was instituted the appeal was not
pursued.
So the gudgment was not set aside; it remained
registered in the Supreme Court of Norto lk Island: 1%t was
not satisfied. The respondent set about enforciug it.
it set 1ts sights upon the appellant's holding of shares
in Transworld Treding Ltd., A comoany with consicerable
assets, whicn was registered and which carried on
business 1n Norfolk Island. f search was made in tine
office of the Registrar of Companies on S Decerbper 1977
by Mr. McIntyre, solicitor for the respondent. He
examined the latest return by the company, made up to
6 December 1976, which showed the appellant to be the
holder of 9,993 of the 10,000 shares issued by the company.
The search confirmed some advice which Mr. McIntyre had
received on 12 October 1976. On that day, che appellant
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had sent Mr. McIntyre a cable from New Zealand, reading
"No intention now or in the future to sell Transworld be
advised accordingly. Noakes." On 9 December 1977,
Mr. McIntyre caused a summons to be issued out of the
Supreme Court of Norfolk Island directed to the appellant
and to the company seeking the appointment of a receiver
of the appellant's property in Norfolk Island "for the
purpose of obtaining equitable execution against the
assets of [the appellant] in satisfaction of the judgment...",
and seeking an order that "the 9,993 shares shown in the
annual return as at 6th December 1976 as standing in
[the appellant's] name be vested in the said receiver
forthwith by virtue of the Order of this Court."
Mr. McIntyre swore an affidavit in support showing that
the shares were the appellant's only asset of net worth
in Norfolk Island against which the judgment might be
executed.
The application came on for hearing before the
Supreme Court of Norfolk Island (Joske J.) on 12 December
1977. There were other applications connected with the
judgment heard simultaneously, but they were dismissed and
are of no present relevance. The respondent was
represented by Mr. McIntyre, and the appellant by his
solicitor, Mr. Skinner. The company did not appear; indeed,
it had not been served. Mr. McIntyre called Mr. Adams,
an accouncant, to give evidence and to produce some
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documents. Mr. Adams gave evidence that until 13 December
1976 the appellant held 9,993 shares in the company,
Mrs. S.J. Noakes (the appellant's wife) held 2 shares, and
the remaining five shares were held by trustees for the
appellant and Mrs. Noakes or one of them. However, it
appeared from Mr. Adams' evidence and from certain documents
which he produced that on 13 December 1976, four days after
the dismissal of the appellant's application to set aside
the judgment, the appellant transferred to Mrs. Noakes
9,991 of the shares which he held in the company. At 10.30am
on that day the appellant chaired a meeting of the directors
of the company on Norfolk Island, and it had then been
resolved that the transfer "be approved". So it appeared
that the appellant had disposed of most of the shares in
respect of which the application was made. Mrs. Noakes had
acquired them.
The court adjourned the further hearing of the
application shortly before noon on 12 December 1977.
Mrs. Noakes was on Norfolk Island at that time, having
arrived from New Zealand the day before. However, she left
the island on the afternoon flight to Sydney on 12 December.
The a1rrline booking centre on the zsland told Mr. McIntyre,
as he deposed, that:
" At approximately 1.15 p.m. today 12th December
1977 the said Sheilagh Julie Noakes arrived at that
office witnout prior notice, and purchased a ticket
from Norfolk Island to Sydney on East West A1rlines
on the flight departing at 2.15 p.m. that day and
travelled on that flight to Sydney at that time."
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Mr. McIntyre caused a further summons to be
issued that afternoon, seeking the setting aside of the
transfer of the shares to Mrs. Noakes "as a conveyance to
defeat creditors". The summons was directed to the
appellant, the company, and Mrs. Noakes. That afternoon,
Mr. McIntyre obtained ex parte from his Honour an order
that the summons issued on 12 December be returnable at
9.30am the following morning, 13 December, and that in the
alternative to personal service of that summons and related
documents on Mrs. Noakes service of those documents on her
pe effected by serving them on Mr. Skinner. Mr. McIntyre
served them on Mr. Skinner. Notwithstanding the making of
the order for substituted service,1& may be doubted whether
Mrs. Noakes was or became subject to the jurisdiction of
the Supreme Court of Norfolk Island, for she had left the
island when the summons was issued on 12 December, and the
summons was not available for service out of the
jurisdiction. (See Laurie v. Carroll (1958) 98 C.L.R.310).
She did not apply to set aside the order for substituted
service of the summons, but neither did she appear to
submit to the Court's jurisdiction. She does not appeal to
this Court, whether against the order for substituted
service or against any other order. She is not a party to
this appeal, and the determination of this appeal leaves
her rights - for goo@ or 111 - precisely as they were when
the orders appealed from were made. What is material to
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this appeal 1s that the appellant, a narty to the proceecings
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though he had the standing to do so for reasons to which
Gillard J. referred in Bradvica v. Radulovic /1975/ V.R. 434 at
p. 440. Although Mrs. Noakes' interests are unaffected by the
appellant's appeal, for the purposes of that appeal the
proceedings for the setting aside of the transfer of shsres
to Mrs. Noakes 2znstituted by the summons of 12 December stand
as proceedings between the judgment creditor on the one hand,
and the trensferor anc transferee on the other. The hearing
of those proceedings comnenced on 13 December 197
accordance with the order for srort service. Mr. Mec
and Mr. Skinner appearea respective. y tor the responaent anc
the appellant. Again, the company was not served and was
unrepresented, though the evidence ziven by Mr. Adams on the
previous day showed that Mr. and Mrs. MNcakes were the only
directors of the company anc between them held the heneficiel
interest 1n its issued shares.
His Honour adjourned the further hearing of the
proceedings to Melbourne on 23 December 1977, in order
to furnish an opportunity to the appellant to deal with the
case which had been made by the responcent. The opvortunity
was not availed of to adduce any evidence. After hearing
submissicns, his Honour mace several orders, one of whicn was
mede upon the summons issued or. 1? Tecember 3977. 'That
order vas that the transfer of the 9,991 shares shoula
"be set aside ss &@ voluntary
conveyance made with intent to defraud creditors". Other
orders were also made, consequential upon the setting aside
of the transfer, the consequential orders being made
"pursuant to the summons issued by the plaintiff datcd
9th December 1977 for the appointment of a receiver to the
shares of [the appellant] in the capital of Transworld
Trading Ltd." The consequential orders included the
appointment of a receiver of the shares, and orders
empowering the receiver to sell the shares, to be manager
of the company and to apply the company's funds, inter alia,
by satisfying the judgment debt and interest thereon. The
appellant appeals against both the order setting aside the
transfer and against the consequential orders.
His Honour ordered that the transfer of shares be
set aside because he found that the transfer was voluntary
and in fraud of the judgment creditor and that it fell
accordingly within 13 EFliz.I.,c.5 the provisions of which
were extended to Norfolk Island by a proclamation of
Governor Strickland of 23 December 1913, and kept on foot
by the Norfolk Island Act 1913, s.4 and the Norfolk Islard
Act 1957, ss-12 and 13.
His Honour's findings were challenged. It was said
that the weight of evidence showed that the transfer was not
voluntary, but for valuable consideration, and that there was
no evidence of fraudulent intent. The appellant placed
rellance upon the instrument of transfer itself, which had
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been tendered in evicence as part of the respondent's
case. The instrument w2s partly prirled, partly writcren
and it reads as follows (the writing 2s undcerlinec):
"IT, Reymond Brian Noases of Norfolk Island (tle
transferor) in consiceration of the sun of
Consideration Received paid to me by Sheilagh
Julia Noakes Of Norfolk Islend (the transferee)
do hereby transfer to the said transferee 9991
Shares numbered 1 to 999% inclusive in the
undertaking called Transworld Trading Limited..."
Consider the appellant's position on 123 December 1#75 when
he executed this transfer: the gudgment nad been entered
34 years earlier; it was unsatisfied; it had been
registered in the Supreme Court of Norfolk Islan¢e since
11 December 1975; although the appellant was the
principel shareholder and a cirector of a trading concern
on the icliand, he had done nothing to satisfy 12s i1iability
under the jgudgment; feur Gays carller his attempt to have
the gudgmen:s set aside had fulled; he vac no cther
available esseTs on the island asainst wh2cn execution
would be effectzve, and he trans*erred the shares to his
wife without specifying the consiaderetion which the
instrument of transfer asserts was peid to him. It ves,
of course, open to the apnellant to show what consideration
was paid to hin, but he chose not to @o so. He evictently
hoped to convince his Honour that the respondent hac not
proved its case. The hove was misplaced, and his Honour's
finding that the transfer was voluntary followed the
approach of Lord Hardwick, L.C. in Walker v. Burrows /
1 4tk. 94; 26 E.R. 61. In that case, the terms of a
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conveyance to trustees "in consideration of five shillings
and other valuable considerations" in trust for the settlor
for life, to his wife for life, then to his eldest son, etc.
was relied on to show valuable consideration when the deed
was challenged as a conveyance not for valuable consideration,
falling within 1 Jac.1, c.15, but the Lord Chancellor said
(at 1 Atk. p.94):
" It has been said, I must at this time take
the deed in 1718 to be for a valuable consideration,
because expressed to be for five shillings, and
other valuable considerations.
But the consideration of five shillings, and
other valuable considerations, does not oblige the
court to hold it, at all events, to be for a
valuable consideration, and can at most only let
the defendant into proof that there were other
valuable considerations. "
Nor did it suffice to point to the matrimonial relationship of
the parties to the transfer, for a transfer by a husband to a
wife made not in discharge of legal obligation but merely for
natural love and affection or to make provision for a family,
is yet a voluntary transfer for the purposes of 13 Elaz.l., ¢.5
(Taylor v. Jones [1743] 2 Atk.600; 26 E.R.758; Tweddle v.
Atkinson [1861] 1 B.& S.393 at p.399; 121 E.R.762 at 9.764).
Consequently, there was nothing to show that the
appellant had received any consideration for the transfer of
the only asset against which the unsatisfied judgment creditor
might execute. We were pressed with some observations in
Williams v. Lloyd; In re Williams (1934) 50 C.L.R.341 where the
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Court affirmed that the burden of proof that a transfer
was made with a real intent to defeat or delay creditors
1S upon the party who so alleges. But that was a case
where, at the time of the challenged disposition of
property by a husband to his wife, he was in a sound
financial position, and it was held that subsequent
conduct and events were insufficient to show that the
husband had at that time an intent to defraud crealtors
(see the judyment of Dixon J. at p.372). In the present
case, the inevitable result of the transfer of shares on
13 December 1976 was to defeat or delay any attempt to
execute the judgment in Norfolk Island. The case falls
squarely within the line of authorities of which Freeman v.
Pope ([1870] L.R.5 Ch.538) 1s the leading example, where
Lord Hatherley,L.C. said (at p.541):
"But it is established by the authorities that in
the absence of any such direct proof of intention,
1f a person owing debts makes a settlement which
subtracts from the property which 1s the proper
fund for the payment of those debts, an amount with-
out which the debts cannot be pald, then, since it
1s the necessary consequence of the settlement
(supposing 1t effectual) that some creditors must
remain unpaid, it would be the duty of the Judge
to direct the jury that they must infer the intent
of the settlor to have been to dafeat or delay nis
creditors, and that the case is within the statute."
That proposition does not trespass upon the rule as to
onus of proof; it 1s a particular illustration of the
discharge of the onus by inference from the known facts
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(cf. In re Holland; Gregg v. Holland [1902] 2 Ch.360 at p.381).
In this case, the inference is strengthened by the proximity
an time of the failure to have the judgment set aside and
the execution of the transfer of the shares. The challenge
to his Honour's finding that the transfer fell within the
Statute of Elizabeth therefore fails.
It does not follow, however, that the transfer
of the shares was ineffective. The transfer of shares was
completed, of course, before any attempt was made by a
creditor to impeach the transfer; and the transfer was not
then void, but voidable. As Dixon C.J. and Fullagar J.
pointed out in Brady v. Stapleton (1952) 88 C.L.R.322 at
p.333:
" The truth seems to be that, although the
statute uses, and most emphatically uses, the word
'yoid', the courts have always treated a fraudulent
assignment as effective unless and until a
creditor or creditors intervene by levying
execution or taking legal proceedings. "
So Mrs. Noakes became both the legal and
beneficial owner of the shares. The avoidance of the
transfer did not revest either the beneficial or legal
ownership of the shares in the appvellant. As between Mr.
and Mrs. Noakes, the transfer is of unchanged validity.
The banefit of the statute enures for the benefit of the
creditors, not for the benefit of the debtor. In Ex parte
Butters. In Re Harrison [1880] L.R.14 Ch.D.265 at p.267, Jamcs
L.J. said:
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"The bankruptcy law puts the trustee in the
position of the representative of all] the
creditors of the bankrupt, and under the
statute of Hlizabeth creditors have a right
to impeach transactions which the bankrupt
himself could not impeach. The trustee,
therefore, in seeking to set aside a
transaction as fraudulent under the statute
of Elizabeth 1s claiming by a higher and
better title than the bankrupt himself, for
the bankrupt is a party to the fraud."
The court will make such orders consequential
upon the avoidance of a transfer of property as are
necessary to give effect to the superior title of the
creditors claiming the benefit of the statute against the
party whose title was acquired under the impeached transfer.
The statute enures for the benefit of unsecured creditors
generally; and not only existing but subsequent creditors
are let in to participate rateably in the property which
becomes available (May on Fraudulent Conveyances, 3rd edn.,
p.39). Thus in a successful sult to declare a transfer
void under the statute, the transfer 1s declared to he
void aS against all the creditors (Adames v. Hallett
(1868) L.R.6 Eq.468 at p.473; and see Seton "Judgments and
Orders" 6th ed., p.2345). Indeed a creditor's claim is
properly to be made on behalf of himselt and the other
creditors (Reese River Silver Mining Co. v. Atwell [1869]
L.R.7 Eq.347). It may be made by a trustee in bankruptcy
who represents the general body of creditors, as in
Brady v. Stapleton, and Ex parte Butters, supra.
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The statute 1s not for the benefit soiely of the unsecured
creditor who sues, and he cannot obtain an order which
secures the avallabie property to him alors, or inceed,
to him in priority to other creditors.
The title of the person claiming under the
impeached disposition stands until the disp2sition is
avoided. It is that title which the creditors nust
attack, and it will not avail them tc pursue the debtor
in litigation if they leave the assignee of the assets out
of the suit. The issue falls to be Ceterminedc between
the creditors ard the assignee, as Stirling J. noted in
In re Mouat; Kingston Cotton Miils Company v. Mouet £18997
L.R. 1 Ch. 831 at pp. 834, 855:
"According to the law which has been laid down
in the cases I have gust cited, the assignments
became vo1d the moment the creditors claimed c9
treat them es such; and thereupon the property
which was comprised in those cassignmerts ceasec,
as against the creditors, to be the property of
the assignee, and became assets for tre payment
of the creditors in such a way that they had a
legal right to be paid out of those assets."
The specific relief which may be given to creditors depends,
no doubt, upon the nature of the asset in the hands of the
assignee, and orders may be moulded to zive appropriate
effect to the creditors! rights as against the assignee.
Thus in Brady v. Stapleton, supra, transferees of shares
under an impeached transfer who had mixed thos2 shares
witnh other shares of an indistinguishable kind held by them
were ordered to transfer to the trustce in bankruptcy
the same number of shares as they had respectively
received (see 88 C.L.R.at pp.339,346). But the creditors
gust seek their relief against the person whose title
the creditors would supersede. They cannot claim relief
against the debtor who, ex hypothesi, has parted with his
title to the assets which the creditors would pursue.
When the transferee of property 1s sued by a trustee in
bankruptcy, it will often be appropriate and sufficient
to direct the defendant to transfer the property to the
trustee, but 1f creditors seek execution against property,
a guestion may arise as to the precise entitlement of the
creditors to the property in the defendant's hands (see
Smith v. Hurst (1852) 10 llare 30 at pp.48,49; 68 E.R.826).
Lord Romilly, M.R. referred to an appropriate form of order
in Reese River Silver Mining Co. v. Atwell, supra. In that
case, a creditor, impeaching a voluntary settlement, sued
the parties to and the beneficiaries under the settlement,
and he obtained a finding that the settlement fell within
the statute. He applied to amend so as to sue on behalf
of himself and all other creditors. The Master of the
Rolls said (L.R. 7 Eq. at p.352):
"...as Soon as the Court finds that a deed has
been executed for the purpose of delaying,
hindering, or defrauding creditors, and that
1t comes within the statute, 1t sets the deed
aside, but it goes no further; and the
Plaintiffs must take some independent proceedings
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if they wish to have execution against the
property in this deed. I shall give leave
to amend, by making the bill on behalf of
all creditors...I shall declare that the deed
of the 13th of February, 1867, 15 fraudulent
and void as against the creditors; and I direct
the trustees to do and concur in all acts
necessary for making the trust property
available to the creditors;..."
In the present case the summons which sought
the appointment of a receiver of the judgment debtor's
property and other relief (1.c., the summons issued on
9 December 1977) was not directed to, and was not served
upon, Mrs. Noakes - understandably, for the transfer of
the shares to Mrs. Noakes was then unknown to Mr. McInt\re,
and the summons was intended to deal with the property of
Mr. Noakes, not the property of Mrs. Noakes. Yet it was
upon this summons that his Ilonour made the consequential
orders. They cannot stand so as to affect adversely the
title of Mrs. Noakes, who was neither a party to the
proceedings in which they were made, nor entitled to be
heard on 12 December when part of the evidence on this
summons was taken,
It may be argued that consequential orders
could have been made pursuant to the summons of 12 December
for which substituted service was ordered. Even if one
allows effect to the order for substituted service and what
was done 1n conformity with its terms, the consequential
Orders could not be supported. The judgment creditor was
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not shown to have such a titie to the shares as would entitle
him co have 2 recelver acquire and dispose of those shares
to satisfy the judgment creditor, and to nold the excess if
any for the fraudulent debtor.
i should not wish to say what consequential orders
might have bean made against Mrs. Noakes on the assumption that
she was subject to the jurisdiction of the Court, except
to note the orders made in the Reese River cese and in
In re Mouat, supra (the latter being aa orcer for the
preservation of the property pendente lite). It 1s unéesirable
to say more, for 1t may be a matter of future litigation
between tne creditors and Mrs. Noakes to cetermine whet orders
should be made, or even to determine whether Mrs. Noakes is
bound by the declaration made.
That 1s not to say that the litigation and the making
of the declaration have been barren exercises for the
gudgment creditor. If Mrs. Noakes 1s bound by the funding
made by Joske J. or by sone future judicial finding chat
the transfer was voidable, the respondent has effectively
elected to avoid 1t. In that event, Mrs. Noakes, with the
knowledge of the creditors! election to avoid 'the transfer,
1s subgect to an equitable obligation not to deai with the
shares in a manner which 1s inconsistent with the rights
of the creditors.
So far as his own posicion ard rights are concerned,
the appellant has entirei:y failed 1n this appeal. Even
though the consequential orders be set asice, no has fazrled to
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uphold the valicity of his transfer of the shares. The
setting aside of the consequential orders follows from the
necessity to remove from the records of the court orders
made adversely to the interests of e person who was not 2
party. It 1s not, in a relevant sense, in relief of the
appellant. Subject to the variations to his Honour's order
next to be mentioned, I would dismiss the appeal with costs.
In lieu of paragraph 4 of his Ecnour's oreer, 2
Geclaration should be made thet the transfer o* the 3,991 shares
is frauduient and vo2zda as against the creditors of Raymona
Brian 'oekes, and paragrephs 3, 5, 6 and 7(b) shovlé be
deleted. The oreer for cost
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in paragraph 7(a) 1s, heving
vegard to the circumstances before his Honour, explained by
argunent on this appeél, an appropriate order which skouid
not be disturbed.
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IN THE FEDERAL COURT OF saUSTRALIA
GENERAL DIVISION ) No. VG 15 of 1978
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VICTORIA DISTRICT REGISTRY )
ON APPEAL FROM TRE SUPREME COURT
OF NORFOLK 1 SLAUD
BETWEEN : RAYMOND ERTAN NOaKES
Appellant
(Secone Defendant)
AND : J. HARVY HOLMES & SON
Respondent
(Plaintiff)
CORAM: Brennan, Deane and Fisher JJ.
REASONS FOR oJDCMENT
T have read the gudgmene cof my brother Brennan
anc I agree with his decision and the reasons he gives
for that decision. .
I certify that this andthe +
i pRocedane -paresa-6 a t™1e sooy of the
Reasons for Judgment herein of his Honou.
Mr. Justice dater
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Dated: 3 Luguk (919
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