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JUDGMENT No. vedo senseveeene
COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA
TRADE PRACTICES ACT, 1974
IN THE TRADE PRACTICES TRIBUNAL NSW 5 of 1987
RE: JOHN DEE (EXPORT) PTY. LIMITED & ORS. Applicants
RE: Application for a_ Review of a Determination made by the
Trade Practices Commission dated I October 1987
ORDER MADE BY: LOCKHART J. (President) WHERE ORDER MADE: SYDNEY DATE OF ORDER: 23 DECEMBER 1988
MINUTE OF ORDER
THE TRIBUNAL ORDERS THAT:
1. The matter be stood over to a date to be fixed for the purpose of determining the question of the class or classes of costs and expenses to which the Victorian
Stock and Station Agents Association is entitled.
COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA
TRADE PRACTICES ACT, 1974
IN THE TRADE PRACTICES TRIBUNAL NSW 5 of 1987
RE: JOHN DEE (EXPORT) PTY.
LIMITED & ORS. Applicants
RE: Application for a Review of a Determination made by the Trade Practices Commission dated I October 1987
23 December 1988
REASONS FOR DECISION
LOCKHART J., President
The question in this matter is whether the Trade Practices Tribunal has power to order payment of the costs and expenses of a person, upon whom a summons. to appear before the Tribunal and to produce documents has been served, of and incidental to searching for, collating and copying
documents.
The question arose in the course of the hearing by the Tribunal of an application by John Dee (Export) Pty. Limited ("John Dee") for a review of a determination made by the Trade Practices Commission. At the request of John Dee the Tribunal issued a summons directed to the Secretary of The
Victorian Stock and Station Agents Association ("the
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Association") requiring him to appear before the Tribunal and
to produce certain documents of the Association,
Initially the Association sought to set aside the summons on the ground that it was too wide and that compliance with it would be oppressive. Following discussions between counsel and solicitors for John Dee and for the Association, and with the concurrence of the Tribunal, the parties agreed to convert the application to set aside the summons into an arrangement by which the Association would search for, collate and copy documents which were more clearly and narrowly defined than the classes of documents described in the summons; the definition of the documents and classes of documents being made by counsel and
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