Federal Court of Australia
FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA
Fonterra Brands (Australia) Pty Ltd v Viropoulos (No 3) [2015] FCA 1050 Citation: Fonterra Brands (Australia) Pty Ltd v Viropoulos (No 3) [2015] FCA 1050
Parties: FONTERRA BRANDS (AUSTRALIA) PTY LTD (ACN 095 181 669) v NICHOLAS VIROPOULOS (AKA NIKOLAOS VIROPOULOS) and FCD HOLDINGS PTY LTD (ACN 133 109 798)
File number: VID 996 of 2011
Judge: ROBERTSON J
Date of judgment: 29 September 2015
Catchwords: TRADE AND COMMERCE – trade practices – misleading and deceptive conduct – claim that corporate purchaser, now in liquidation, at the time goods were sold and delivered never intended to pay for them and that director/controller of that purchaser at the time the goods were sold and delivered never intended that the corporate purchaser pay for them – claim of accessorial liability – whether representations made – whether representations by silence – whether Jones v Dunkel inferences should be drawn
Legislation: Evidence Act 1995 (Cth) s 140 Fair Trading Act 1987 (NSW) ss 42, 68 Trade Practices Act 1974 (Cth) ss 52, 75B, 82
Cases cited: Bradshaw v McEwans Pty Ltd (1951) 217 ALR 1 Briginshaw v Briginshaw [1938] HCA 34; (1938) 60 CLR 336 Concrete Constructions Group Ltd v Litevale Pty Ltd [2002] NSWSC 670; (2002) 170 FLR 290 HTW Valuers (Central Qld) Pty Ltd v Astonland Pty Ltd [2004] HCA 54; (2004) 217 CLR 640 Jones v Dunkel [1959] HCA 8; (1959) 101 CLR 298 Matheson Engineers Pty Ltd v El Raghy (1992) 37 FCR 6 McGrath v Australian Naturalcare Products Pty Ltd [2008] FCAFC 2; (2008) 165 FCR 230 Stora Enso Australia Pty Ltd v CPI Group Limited [2006] FCA 1685 Transport Industries Insurance Co Ltd v Longmuir [1997] 1 VR 125 Warner v Hung; Re Bellpac Pty Ltd (recs and mgrs apptd) (in liq) [2011] FCA 1123; (2011) 297 ALR 56 Heydon JD, Cross on Evidence (10th ed, LexisNexis Butterworths, 2015)
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