ICAP Australia Pty Limited v BGC Partners (Australia) Pty Limited [2007] FCA 467

FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA

ICAP Australia Pty Limited v BGC Partners (Australia) Pty Limited [2007] FCA 467

PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE – discovery – application to vary access regime for discovered documents – to whom confidential business documents should be disclosed – applicable principles – need for procedural fairness – in balancing the competing considerations access to individual employee respondents granted to most of the documents subject to the giving of a confidentiality undertaking C7 Pty Ltd v Foxtel Management Pty Ltd [2002] FCA 1189 cited Hadid v Lenfest Communicaitons Inc (1996) 70 FCR 403 cited Macquarie Generation v Coal & Allied Industries Ltd [2001] FCA 1349 cited Mobil Oil Australia Ltd v Guina Developments Pty Ltd [1996] 2 VR 34 referred to Reebok v SOCOG [2000] NSWSC 295 cited ICAP Australia Pty Limited v BGC Partners (Australia) Pty LIMITED AND ORS NSD 115 of 2005 JACOBSON J 29 MARCH 2007 SYDNEY IN THE FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA

NEW SOUTH WALESDISTRICT REGISTRY NSD 115 of 2005

BETWEEN: ICAP AUSTRALIA PTY LTD (ACN 002 216 944)

Applicant

AND: BGC PARTNERS (AUSTRALIA) PTY LTD (ACN 092 873 099) First Respondent MARK WEBSTER Second Respondent MARTIN O'BRIEN Third Respondent STEPHEN KENT Fourth Respondent BILLY EL-AKHRAS Fifth Respondent JOHN GAVIN DOUGLASS Sixth Respondent GAYE LOUISE ANABLE, RODNEY CRAIG BROWN, JUSTIN BUCHANAN, BEN ELLBOGEN, JAMES FAY, ROBERT GRIECO, GRANT KULL, CHRIS MAYHEAD, MICHAEL ROCHE, GLEN SOUTHEREN, ADAM JOHN TURNBULL, LLOYD WILCOX Seventh to Eighteenth Respondents ADRIAN FERNLEY Nineteenth Respondent

MURRAY HETHERINGTON, ANTHONY HERBERT, MATTHEW GRANT, MARK MIKOLAITIS Twentieth to Twenty-Third Respondents JUDGE: Jacobson J