Deloitte Consulting Pty Ltd v Blumberg [2000] FCA 1222

FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA

Deloitte Consulting Pty Ltd v Blumberg [2000] FCA 1222 INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY – copyright – confidential information – balance of convenience O'Brien v Komasaroff (1982) 150 CLR 310 referred to Carindale Country Club Estate Pty Ltd v Astill (1993) 115 ALR 112 referred to DELOITTE CONSULTING PTY LTD v ANTHONY CHARLES BLUMBERG, CHRIS THOMAS HUGGINS, NEW CENTURY FINANCIAL SOLUTIONS PTY LTD, SHREWD DUDES PTY LTD NO VG 530 OF 2000 HEEREY J 15 AUGUST 2000 MELBOURNE

IN THE FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA

VICTORIA DISTRICT REGISTRY V530 of 2000

BETWEEN: DELOITTE CONSULTING PTY LTD (ACN 079 179 078)

FIRST APPLICANT

DELOITTE CONSULTING/ICS PTY LTD (ACN 079 173 078)

SECOND APPLICANT

AND: ANTHONY CHARLES BLUMBERG

FIRST RESPONDENT

CHRIS THOMAS HUGGINS

SECOND RESPONDENT

NEW CENTURY FINANCIAL SOLUTIONS PTY LTD

(ACN 092 619 648)

THIRD RESPONDENT

SHREWD DUDES PTY LTD (ACN 092 039 926)

FOURTH RESPONDENT

JUDGE: HEEREY J

DATE OF ORDER: 15 AUGUST 2000

WHERE MADE: MELBOURNE

THE COURT ORDERS THAT: 1. The Applicants have leave to join Nicholas Koulbanis as the Fifth Respondent to this proceeding.

2. The Applicants have leave to amend the Application in the form submitted to the Court on 4 August 2000.

Upon the Applicants by their Counsel undertaking to the Court that the Applicants will submit:

(a) to such order (if any) as the Court may consider to be just for the payment of compensation, to be assessed by the Court or as it may direct, to any person, whether or not a party, adversely affected by the operation of the interlocutory order or undertaking or any continuation (with or without variation) thereof; and