Federal Court of Australia
FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA
Mercedes Holdings Pty Limited v Waters (No 6) [2012] FCA 1412 Citation: Mercedes Holdings Pty Limited v Waters (No 6) [2012] FCA 1412
Parties: MERCEDES HOLDINGS PTY LIMITED (ACN 086 169 422) AND OTHER APPLICANTS NAMED IN THE SCHEDULE v ANDREA JANE WATERS AND OTHER RESPONDENTS NAMED IN THE SCHEDULE
File number: NSD 324 of 2009
Judge: JACOBSON J
Date of judgment: 12 December 2012
Catchwords: PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE – representative proceeding – Court approval of settlement – fairness and reasonableness of terms of settlement – objections to settlement – whether to impose conditions on any approval – discontinuance not "previously concluded proceeding"
Legislation: Corporations Act 2001 (Cth), ss 208, 601EA, 601FC, 601FD, 601HA, 601HG, 601LC Federal Court of Australia Act 1976 (Cth), ss 33V, 37N Wrongs Act 1958 (Vic), ss 24AI, 24AL
Cases cited: Bray v F Hoffman-La Roche Ltd [2003] FCA 1505 Cockatoo Dockyards Pty Ltd v The Commonwealth of Australia [2001] NSWCA 468 Godfrey Spowers (Victoria) Pty Ltd v Lincolne Scott Australia Pty Ltd & Ors [2008] VSCA 208 Goddard Elliott (a firm) v Fritsch [2012] VSC 87 James Hardie Co Pty Ltd v Seltsam Pty Ltd (1998) 196 CLR 53 Mercedes Holdings Pty Limited v Waters (No 1) (2010) 77 ACSR 265 Pharm-a-Care Laboratories Pty Ltd v Commonwealth of Australia (No 6) [2011] FCA 277 Taylor v Telstra Corporation Ltd [2007] FCA 2008 Wotton v State of Qld [2009] FCA 758
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