Avetmiss Easy Pty Ltd v Australian Skills Qualifications Authority (No 2) [2014] FCA 444

FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA

Avetmiss Easy Pty Ltd v Australian Skills Qualifications Authority (No 2) [2014] FCA 444 Citation: Avetmiss Easy Pty Ltd v Australian Skills Qualifications Authority (No 2) [2014] FCA 444

Appeal from: Avetmiss Easy Pty Ltd and Australian Skills Quality Authority [2013] AATA 732

Parties: AVETMISS EASY PTY LTD v AUSTRALIAN SKILLS QUALIFICATIONS AUTHORITY

File number: VID 1102 of 2013

Judge: MORTIMER J

Date of judgment: 7 May 2014

Catchwords: COSTS – Respondent sought lump sum costs order – applicable principles – whether award consistent with overarching purposes in s 37M of Federal Court of Australia Act 1976 (Cth) – lump sum costs awarded.

Legislation: Administrative Appeals Tribunal Act 1975 (Cth) s 44 Federal Court of Australia Act 1976 (Cth) ss 37M(1), 37N, 43 National Vocational Education and Training Regulator Act 2011 (Cth) Federal Court Rules 2011 (Cth) rr 4.01, 40.02(b)

Cases cited: Avetmiss Easy Pty Ltd v Australian Skills Qualifications Authority [2014] FCA 46 Avetmiss Easy Pty Ltd v Australian Skills Qualifications Authority [2014] FCA 314 Beach Petroleum NL v Johnson (No 2) (1995) 57 FCR 119 Bitek Pty Ltd v IConnect Pty Ltd [2012] FCA 506 Black and Decker Inc v GMCA Pty Ltd (No 4) [2008] FCA 1737 Byrnes v Brisconnections Management Co Ltd (No 2) [2009] FCA 1432 Calderbank v Calderbank [1976] Fam 93; [1975] 3 All ER 333 Dunstan v Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (No 3) [2006] FCA 916 Hamod v New South Wales [2011] NSWCA 375 Keen v Telstra Corporation Ltd (No 2) [2006] FCA 930 Leary v Leary [1987] 1 WLR 72 Nine Films & Television Pty Ltd v Ninox Television Ltd [2006] FCA 1046 Saizeriya Co Ltd v Peregrine Management Group Ltd Pty [2005] FCA 1174 Seven Network Ltd v News Ltd [2007] FCA 2059 Ualesi t/as Australian Empire Imports v Expeditors International Pty Ltd [2006] FCA 26 Date of hearing: Heard on the papers