High Court of Australia
High Court of Australia Stephen, Mason, Jacobs, Murphy and Aickin JJ. Mitcham (Acting Commissioner for Corporate Affairs, Vic) v O'Toole [1977] HCA 41
ORDER Special leave refused.
The Court delivered the following judgment:—
Stephen, Mason, Jacobs, Murphy and Aickin JJ.
The Court has had an opportunity of considering this matter over the adjournment. Since this matter has been presented to the Court as one of urgency and since the Court has reached a conclusion on it, it appears desirable to express that conclusion forthwith.
The Court is satisfied that there is nothing in s. 278 or s. 367B of the Companies Act 1961 Vict. which detracts from the right of a person under oath to decline to answer a question on the ground that it might incriminate him.
Mortimer v. Brown [12] was decided on a different section of the Companies Act and the concatenation of features in the section there under consideration, s. 250, which led the Court to its conclusion in that case is not present in the sections now under consideration. The conclusion of the Full Court of the Supreme Court of Victoria was correct. The matter may, in the particular circumstances of this case, best be disposed of by refusing special leave to appeal.
1. (1970) 122 C.L.R. 493.
That will be the order of the Court: special leave is refused.
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