Edensor Nominees Pty Ltd v Australian Securities & Investments Commission [1999] FCA 1722

FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA

Edensor Nominees Pty Ltd v Australian Securities & Investments Commission [1999] FCA 1722 FEDERAL COURT – Jurisdiction – Primary judge found contraventions of Corporations Law and Trade Practices Act – Orders made pursuant to ss 737 and 739 of Corporations Law – Corporations Law confers power to make orders on "court" – "court" defined to include Federal Court when exercising State jurisdiction – Whether jurisdiction to make orders in view of decision in Wakim that State jurisdiction cannot be conferred on federal courts – Accrued jurisdiction – Whether single justiciable controversy – Whether accrued jurisdiction is federal or State jurisdiction – Whether power to make orders under s 39B of Judiciary Act or s 22 of Federal Court Act. Corporations Law ss 58AA, 615, 737, 739 Federal Court Act 1976 (Cth) s 22 Judiciary Act 1903 s 39B Trade Practices Act 1974 s 52 Re Wakim; Ex parte McNally (1999) 163 ALR 270 cited Stack v Coast Securities (No 9) Pty Ltd (1983) 154 CLR 261 applied Fencott v Muller (1983) 152 CLR 570 applied Gould v Brown (1998) 193 CLR 346 cited Smith v Smith (1986) 161 CLR 217 considered Rochester Communications Group Pty Ltd v Adler (1996) 65 FCR 572 cited Patrick Stevedores Operations No 2 Pty Ltd v Maritime Union of Australia (1998) 153 ALR 643 cited Philip Morris Inc v Adam P Brown Male Fashions Pty Ltd (1981) 148 CLR 457 applied National Parks and Wildlife Service v Stables Perisher Pty Ltd (1990) 20 NSWLR 573 cited McLeish v Faure (1979) 40 FLR 462 cited Thomson Australian Holdings Pty Ltd v Trade Practices Commission (1981) 148 CLR 150 cited

EDENSOR NOMINEES PTY LTD v AUSTRALIAN SECURITIES AND INVESTMENTS COMMISSION, YANDAL GOLD PTY LTD, YANDAL GOLD HOLDINGS PTY LTD, NORMANDY MINING LIMITED, NORMANDY MINING FINANCE LTD, NORMANDY CONSOLIDATED GOLD HOLDINGS PTY LTD and NORMANDY MINING HOLDINGS PTY LTD