The University of Western Australia v Gray (No 8) [2007] FCA 89

FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA

The University of Western Australia v Gray (No 8) [2007] FCA 89

PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE – discovery – inspection – obligation to produce discovered documents – power of court to order production of documents discovered – discretion – criterion – "necessary" – whether inspection necessary – solicitors – duty in provision of discovery – certificate of availability for inspection – duty of solicitor in so certifying – discovery of single item comprising voluminous unsorted records including irrelevant material Federal Court of Australia Rules O 15

The University of Western Australia v Gray (No 6) [2006] FCA 1656 cited Kimberley Mineral Holdings Pty Ltd (In Liq) v McEwan [1980] 1 NSWLR 210 cited Holmes v Deputy Federal Commission of Taxation [1988] 2 ATC 4010 cited Trade Practices Commission v CC (New South Wales) Pty Ltd (1995) 58 FCR 426 cited Gray v Associated Book Publishers (Aust) Pty Ltd [2002] FCA 1045 cited Cairns BC, The Law of Discovery in Australia (Law Book Company, 1984) Bray's Principles and Practice of Discovery (Reeves and Turner, 1885) Matthews P and Malek HM, Disclosures (Sweet & Maxwell, London, 2001) THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA v BRUCE NATHANIEL GRAY, SIRTEX MEDICAL LIMITED (ACN 078 166 122) AND CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INCORPORATED (REG NO 1001005) BRUCE NATHANIEL GRAY v THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA and YEN CHEN SIRTEX MEDICAL LIMITED (ACN 078 166 122) v THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA WAD292 OF 2004

FRENCH J

9 FEBRUARY 2007

PERTH

IN THE FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA

WESTERN AUSTRALIA DISTRICT REGISTRY WAD292 OF 2004

BETWEEN: THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA

Applicant

AND: BRUCE NATHANIEL GRAY

First Respondent

SIRTEX MEDICAL LIMITED (ACN 078 166 122)

Second Respondent

CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INCORPORATED (REG NO 1001005)