FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA
Practice Note CM 14
USUAL UNDERTAKING AS TO DAMAGES

This Practice Note is REVOKED

On 25 October 2016, as part of the National Court Framework reforms, all existing practice documents were revoked and new national practice notes were issued, effective immediately. 

To assist Court users to understand these practice note changes, the Court has prepared: 
•	a cross-reference table comparing new to old practice notes; and 
•	a cross-reference table comparing old to new practice notes.	

The “usual undertaking as to damages” if given to the Court in relation to any interlocutory order made by it or any interlocutory undertaking given to it, is an undertaking: 
(a)	to submit to such order (if any) as the Court may consider to be just for the payment of compensation, to be assessed by the Court or as it may direct, to any person, whether or not a party, adversely affected by the operation of the interlocutory order or undertaking or any continuation (with or without variation) thereof; and
(b)	to pay the compensation referred to in (a) to the person there referred to. 

PA KEANE 
Chief Justice
1 August 2011