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1. This notice advises of
the administrative arrangements for the handling of Corporations
matters (being matters under the Corporations Act 2001, the Australian
Securities and Investment Commission Act 2001 and the Cross Border
Insolvency Act 2008) in the New South Wales District Registry of the
Court. Corporate insolvency (not personal bankruptcy) is included.
This Notice takes effect
from 2 February 2009 and replaces the previous Corporations Notice to
Litigants and Practitioners numbered NSW 2008/5.
Urgent Corporations
Matters
2. All urgent
Corporations applications, including ex parte applications, are heard
by a Corporations Duty Judge.
There are four
Corporations Duty Judges in NSW. They and their Associates' telephone
numbers are:
| Lindgren J |
02 9230 8454 |
| Emmett J |
02 9230 8410 |
| Stone J |
02 9230 8404 |
| Jacobson J |
02 9230 8492 |
Details of the
Corporations Duty Judge rostered on duty are available daily in the
published Court List or on Level 3 of the Law Courts Building.
Urgent applications may be
made on any Court sitting day directly to the relevant Corporations
Duty Judge by contacting that Judge's Associate.
For urgent Corporation
matters out of business hours or on days other than Court sitting days,
the standard after-hours arrangements for the Federal Court apply under
which parties may contact the Law Courts Security desk on (02) 9230
8025.
Non urgent
Corporations Matters
3. General Corporations
matters are initially made returnable before a Registrar on Fridays at
9.15 am. The Registrar deals with matters within the Registrar's
delegation which the Registrar considers appropriate to be dealt with
by a Registrar.
Matters that are not
within the Registrar's delegation or which the Registrar does not
consider appropriate to be dealt with by a Registrar are referred to
the Corporations Duty Judge or allocated to a Corporations Panel
Judge's docket in the usual way.
4. The Corporations Duty
Judge rostered on duty (see (2) above) sits on Fridays at 9.30 am to
deal with matters referred from the Registrar's 9.15am list and such
other matters as are appropriate to be dealt with by the Corporations
Duty Judge.
Corporations Panel
5. All Corporations
matters that are not dealt with by the Corporations Duty Judge or by a
Registrar will be allocated to the docket of a Judge who is a member of
the Corporations Panel in NSW. The Corporations Panel in NSW consists
of the following Judges:
Lindgren J (Panel Co-ordinator), Emmett J,
Stone J, Jacobson J, Edmonds J, Graham J, Rares J, Perram J, Jagot J,
Foster J.
Michael Wall
District Registrar
2 February 2009
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