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LODER
ve
AYSOM_AND_OTHERS
DENYLLEK PTY LTD
AYSOM_AND_OTHERS
BERTOLI
Vv.
AYSOM_AND_OTHERS
MASON C.J.
DENYLLEK PTY LTD
Vv.
AYSOM_AND_OTHERS
BERTOLI
Vv.
AYSOM_AND_OTHERS
The proposed appeals seek to challenge the making of
orders under s.85 of the Far
et 1975 (Cth) setting
ily
aside a deed of charge dated 13 June 1986 and certain
associated guarantees and the exercise of a power of sale
pursuant to the deed. The applicants submit that the
determination of this issue gives rise to a question of
general importance concerning the principles to be applied
in setting aside transactions entered into by strangers to
the marriage. However, it seems to us from the judgments in
the Family Court that the interpretation of s.85 was not a
eritical question in the contest in that Court. The making
of the orders was apparently resisted on the ground that the
deed was not entered into to defeat an anticipated order in
favour of the wife in the Family Court proceedings, a
question of fact. There was evidence to support the
conclusion that the deed was entered into for that purpose.
The possible retrospective operation of such an order
under s.85 and the need to protect the interests of third
parties in the framing of such an order are questions of
some importance. But we note that the Full Court has
remitted the case to the trial judge for further
consideration of the orders to be made against the
applicants Messrs Loder and Bertoli who, having been
appointed by Denyllek Pty Limited as receivers and managers
of the business of Torumba Pty Ltd, purported to exercise a
power of sale conferred by the deed of charge. The order
setting aside the sale was complied with by the purchasers
(the respondents Sid Moore Racing Pty Limited and Sydney
Victor Moore) and they seek relief in some form against
Messrs Loder and Bertoli. As the final orders (if any)
affecting their respective interests are yet to be made, it
would be premature for this Court to embark on a
consideration of the orders made under s.85 before the trial
judge has finally dealt with the matters remitted to him.
It would not be appropriate to grant special leave to appeal
against what is, in effect, an interlocutory order when the
Family Court has not yet determined whether and in what
manner its jurisdiction under s.85(3) should be exercised.
The basic objection raised against the making of any
order or any further order against the respective applicants
is that natural justice has been denied them. That
submission was strengthened by the production of the wife's
originating application for the impugned orders already
made. The application was directed solely to the husband
and gave him alone notice that the orders sought or similar
orders might be made if he did not appear. Although copies
of the application were served on the applicants, they were
not cited to appear as parties, presumably because it was
thought that that was unnecessary for the reason that the
Family Law Rules prescribe no appropriate procedure. But
Mr Loder and Denyllek Pty Limited were notified that an
application for the orders set out in the application was
being made and Mr Bertoli was notified before the making of
the order against him personally. However formidable the
procedural difficulties are or were in the way of making
orders against the applicants, particularly against
Mr Bertoli, the argument before the Full Court seems to have
ignored those difficulties and to have focussed on the
reasons why Messrs Loder and Bertoli and Denyllek Pty
Limited chose not to appear formally to contest the
application. That argument lost any real force once it was
held, as the Full Court effectively held, that their
decisions not to appear were consciously made and were based
on what turned out to be a misappreciation of the
substantial (not the procedural) merits of the applicant's
ease. As there are no orders presently extant against the
personal applicants, it is not appropriate to grant special
leave to them to appeal against the interlocutory orders
made by the Full Court. Nor is it appropriate to grant
special leave to appeal at this stage to Denyllek Pty
Limited, which Nygh J. found to be the husband's alter ego.
We do not doubt that the question of the citation of
persons not parties to the marriage in proceedings under
s.85 of the F t and the scope and operation of
yh.
s.85 are questions of general public importance. But as
those questions would seem to have been ignored by both the
applicants and the respondents in the Family Court, this
ease is not a suitable vehicle for their consideration by
this Court, at least at the present stage of the litigation.
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