DBE17 (by his litigation guardian Marie Theresa Arthur) v Commonwealth of Australia

[2019] HCATrans 241

[2019] HCATrans 241

IN THE HIGH COURT OF AUSTRALIA

Office of the Registry
  Melbourne  No M124 of 2019

B e t w e e n -

DBE17 (BY HIS LITIGATION GUARDIAN MARIE THERESA ARTHUR)

Plaintiff

and

COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA

Defendant

NETTLE J

TRANSCRIPT OF PROCEEDINGS

AT CANBERRA ON FRIDAY, 6 DECEMBER 2019, AT 9.33 AM

Copyright in the High Court of Australia

HIS HONOUR:   I heard this application in Melbourne on 8 and 22 November.  For the reasons that I now publish I order as follows:

1.The proceeding be remitted to the Victoria District Registry of the Federal Court of Australia.

2.The proceeding continue in the Federal Court as if the steps taken in the proceeding in this Court had been taken in that court.

3.The Registrar of this Court forward to the proper officer of the Federal Court photocopies of all documents filed in this Court.

4.The costs of the proceeding in this Court be costs in the cause in the Federal Court.

I publish my reasons and that order.

The Court will now adjourn.

AT 9.34 AM THE MATTER WAS CONCLUDED