MACDONALD v AUSTRALIAN SECURITIES & INVESTMENTS COMMISSION [2007] NSWCA 304

New South Wales Court of Appeal

CITATION: MACDONALD v AUSTRALIAN SECURITIES & INVESTMENTS COMMISSION [2007] NSWCA 304

HEARING DATE(S): 19 October 2007

JUDGMENT DATE: 26 October 2007

JUDGMENT OF: Spigelman CJ at 1; Mason P at 34; Giles JA at 77

DECISION: Appeal allowed in part

CATCHWORDS: PROCEDURE – Supreme Court procedure – New South Wales – procedure under Rules of court – pleadings – functions of pleadings – Defence – requirement to file a defence – requirement to raise statutory and/or positive defence – requirement to make positive assertions of fact and provide particulars – whether requirements can be dispensing with under the privilege against self-incrimination – privilege against self-exposure to a penalty – Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 2005, r14.14, r15.1

Civil Procedure Act 2005 Corporations Law, s1317E LEGISLATION CITED: Customs Act 1901 (Cth), s247 Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 2005 J D Heydon, Cross on Evidence 6th Aust ed

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