Elliott v Seymour (No 2) [2000] FCA 694

FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA

Elliott v Seymour (No 2) [2000] FCA 694

JOHN DORMAN ELLIOTT v SERGEANT DOUGLAS SEYMOUR and THOMAS SHERMAN and NATIONAL CRIME AUTHORITY and DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC PROSECUTIONS FOR THE STATE OF VICTORIA and AUSTRALIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION and STEVEN MARSHALL CRABB VG 411 of 1993 RYAN J 26 MAY 2000 MELBOURNE

IN THE FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA

VICTORIA DISTRICT REGISTRY VG411 OF 1993

BETWEEN: JOHN DORMAN ELLIOTT

Applicant

AND: SERGEANT DOUGLAS SEYMOUR

First Respondent

THOMAS SHERMAN

Second Respondent

NATIONAL CRIME AUTHORITY

Third Respondent

DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC PROSECUTIONS FOR THE STATE OF VICTORIA

Fourth Respondent

AUSTRALIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION

Fifth Respondent

STEVEN MARSHALL CRABB

Sixth Respondent JUDGE: RYAN J

DATE OF ORDER: 26 MAY 2000

WHERE MADE: MELBOURNE

THE COURT ORDERS THAT: 1. The applicant file and serve by 21 July 2000 a draft further amended statement of claim confined to the causes of action in conspiracy and misfeasance in a public office referred to in the reasons for judgment published this day. 2. The applicant's motion on notice dated 4 February 1998, the first, second and third respondents' motion on notice dated 4 December 1997, the fourth respondent's amended motion on notice dated 27 April 1998 and the sixth respondent's motion on notice filed on 11 December 1998 be adjourned to a date to be fixed being not earlier than 7 August 2000. 3. The question of the costs of all parties of and incidental to the motions referred to in paragraph 2 of this Order and of and incidental to the hearings on 27 and 28 September 1999 be stood over to the date to be fixed pursuant to paragraph 2 of this Order. Note: Settlement and entry of orders is dealt with in Order 36 of the Federal Court Rules.