Deutscher Menzies Pty Ltd v Deutscher and Hackett Pty Ltd [2007] FCA 278

FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA

Deutscher Menzies Pty Ltd v Deutscher and Hackett Pty Ltd [2007] FCA 278 DEUTSCHER MENZIES PTY LTD (ACN 080 621 236) v DEUTSCHER AND HACKETT PTY LTD (ACN 123 119 022), CHRISTOPHER RAYMOND DEUTSCHER, DAMIAN MICHAEL HACKETT AND IAN WILLIAM HICKS VID 170 OF 2007

SUNDBERG J

6 MARCH 2007

MELBOURNE IN THE FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA

VICTORIA DISTRICT REGISTRY VID 170 OF 2007

BETWEEN: DEUTSCHER MENZIES PTY LTD (ACN 080 621 236)

Applicant

AND: DEUTSCHER AND HACKETT PTY LTD (ACN 123 119 022)

First Respondent

CHRISTOPHER RAYMOND DEUTSCHER

Second Respondent

DAMIAN MICHAEL HACKETT

Third Respondent

IAN WILLIAM HICKS

Fourth Respondent

JUDGE: SUNDBERG J DATE OF ORDER: 6 MARCH 2007

WHERE MADE: MELBOURNE

UPON THE APPLICANT UNDERTAKING: 1. To submit 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 following orders or any continuation (with or without variation thereof); and 2. To pay the compensation referred to in paragraph 1 to the person there referred to. AND UPON THE RESPONDENTS UNDERTAKING THAT: 1. Deutscher and Hackett Pty Ltd will trade under and by reference to that name or the trading style 'Deutscher and Hackett' and no other name or trading style. 2. Within seven days of these orders, Deutscher and Hackett Pty Ltd will publish a statement on its website and in The Australian, The Age and Sydney Morning Herald newspapers to the effect that Deutscher and Hackett Pty Ltd is neither associated nor affiliated with Deutscher Menzies Pty Ltd, in the form 'Deutscher and Hackett Pty Ltd is not associated or affiliated with Deutscher Menzies Pty Ltd.' 3. All future correspondence, websites, catalogues and promotional material of Deutscher and Hackett Pty Ltd will bear the notice referred to in paragraph 2 until further order of the Court. THE COURT ORDERS THAT: 1. The respondents and each of them be restrained from: (a) making use of information taken from any part of any of the applicant's databases referred to in paragraph 35 of the affirmation made by Mervyn John Cox on 28 February 2007 (the information); and (b) publishing, communicating or causing to be published or communicated to any person any of the information, and destroying, parting with possession of or power or control over or defacing or changing in any manner any document containing any of the information or any machine or other equipment embodying or incorporating the information. 2. Within seven days of these orders the respondents and each of them deliver up upon oath to the applicant's solicitors any copy of any part of any of the applicant's databases referred to in paragraph 35 of the said affirmation. 3. Within seven days of these orders the respondents and each of them permit the applicant's solicitors to inspect and copy all documents, materials and other objects within the respondent's possession which contain, record or otherwise refer to information taken from any part of any of the applicant's databases referred to in paragraph 35 of the said affirmation. 4. The application be otherwise dismissed. 5. Costs be reserved. 6. The proceeding be placed in the docket of the next available judge.