Spotwire Pty Limited v Visa International Service Association (No 2) [2004] FCA 571

FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA

Spotwire Pty Limited v Visa International Service Association (No 2)

[2004] FCA 571 TRADE PRACTICES – contract, arrangement or understanding within s 4D of the Trade Practices Act 1974 (Cth) – vertical agreement – horizontal agreement – meeting of minds – consensus – knowledge – in a series of vertical agreements if no express horizontal agreement whether requirement for necessary implication and agency – need to plead offer and acceptance when alleging contract – consent to unlawful term in contract PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE – statement of claim – summary dismissal – strike out – obligation to provide documents referred to in the statement of claim TORT – inducing breach of contract – knowledge – intention – pleading foreign law COSTS – tax forthwith – general considerations WORDS AND PHRASES – 'contract, arrangement or understanding' Trade Practices Act 1974 (Cth) s 4D, s 45(2)(a)(i), s 45(2)(b)(i) Federal Court Rules O 11 r 16, O 15 r 10, O 20 r 2, O 62 r 3 Allstate Life Insurance Co v Australia & New Zealand Banking Group Ltd (No 13) [1995] FCA 626 Allstate Life Insurance Co v Australia & New Zealand Banking Group Ltd (No 14) [1995] FCA 660 Allstate Life Insurance Company v Australia & New Zealand Banking Group Ltd (1995) 58 FCR 26 Australian Competition and Consumer Commission v Amcor Printing Papers Group Ltd (2000) 169 ALR 344 Australian Competition and Consumer Commission v CC (NSW) Pty Ltd (1999) 92 FCR 375 Australian Competition and Consumer Commission v Chaste Corp Pty Ltd (in liq) (2003) 127 FCR 433 Australian Competition and Consumer Commission v Golden West Network Pty Ltd [1997] FCA 792 Australian Liquor, Hospitality and Miscellaneous Workers Union v Liquorland (Aust) Pty Ltd (2002) Aust Torts Reports 81-655 Bailey v Beagle Management Pty Ltd(2001) 105 FCR 136 Brambles Holdings Ltd v Bathurst City Council (2001) 53 NSWLR 153 Brasington v Overton Investments Pty Ltd [2001] FCA 571 Breavington v Godleman (1987) 169 CLR 41 Bridgetown Greenbushes / Friends of the Forest Inc v Department of Conservation and Land (unreported, Western Australian Supreme Court, 30 April 1997) Clarke v Earl of Dunraven and Mount Earl [1897] AC 59 Emerald Construction Co Ltd v Lowthian [1966] 1 WLR 691 Empirnall Holdings Pty Ltd v Machon Paull Partners Pty Ltd (1988) 14 NSWLR 523 Eunson v Beaulieu United Ltd (2002) 190 ALR 110 Independent Oil Industries Ltd v Shell Co of Australia Ltd (1937) 37 SR(NSW) 394 Integrated Computer Services Pty Ltd v Digital Equipment Corp (Aust) Pty Ltd (1988) 5 BPR 11,110 Life Airbag Co of Australia Pty Ltd & Ors v Life Airbag Co (New Zealand) Ltd[1998] FCA 545 McCannel v Mabee-McLaren Motors Ltd [1926] 1 DLR 282 McKellar v Container Terminal Management Services Ltd[1999] FCA 1639 Murran Investments Pty Ltd v Aromatic Beauty Products Pty Ltd (2000) 191 ALR 579 News Limited v Australian Rugby League Football Limited (1996) 64 FCR 410 Raguz v Sullivan (2000) 50 NSWLR 236 Re British Basic Slag's Application, British Basic Slag Ltd v Registrar of Restrictive Trading Agreements [1963] 1 WLR 727 Regie National des Usines Renault SA v Zhang (2002) 210 CLR 491 Rural Press Limited v Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (2003) ALR 217 Rural Press Ltd v Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (2002) 118 FCR 236 Sanders v Snell (1998) 196 CLR 329 Spotwire Pty Ltd v Visa International Service Association Inc (2003) ATPR 41-949 Stationers Supply Pty Ltd v Victorian Authorised Newsagents Association Ltd (1993) 44 FCR 35 Thunderdome Racetiming and Scoring Pty Ltd v Dorian Industries Pty Ltd 36 FCR 297 Top Performance Motors Pty Ltd v Iva Berk (Queensland) Pty Ltd (1975) 24 FLR 286 Vasyli v AOL International Pty Ltd[1996] FCA 804 Vroon BV v Foster's Brewing Group Ltd [1994] 2 VR 32 Walker v W A Pickles Pty Ltd [1980]2 NSWLR 281 Anson's Law of Contract, 27th ed (J Beatson), Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1988 Cheshire & Fifoot's Law of Contract, 7th Australia ed (N.G. Seddon & M.P. Ellinghaus), North Ryde, Butterworths, 1997 Chitty on Contracts, 28th ed (H G Beale), London, Sweet Maxwell, 1999 D.W. Greig & J.L.R. Davis, The Law of Contract, Sydney, Law Book Company Limited, 1987 SPOTWIRE PTY LIMITED (ACN 091 282 647) V VISA INTERNATIONAL SERVICE ASSOCIATION (ABN 70 007 507 511) AND COMMONWEALTH BANK OF AUSTRALIA (ACN 123 123 124) N426 OF 2003 BENNETT J SYDNEY 7 MAY 2004