Eliot and Eliot and Anor

In the matter of *Eliot and Eliot and Anor*, heard before Cleary J, the proceedings concerned an application to join liquidators of F Pty Ltd as parties and to restrain them from taking steps in separate Supreme Court proceedings. The applicants sought these orders in the context of ongoing family law litigation.

The central legal issues before the Court were whether the liquidators of F Pty Ltd should be joined as parties to the family law proceedings, and whether the Court had the power to restrain those liquidators from continuing with proceedings in the Supreme Court of New South Wales. This involved considerations of the Court's jurisdiction and its ability to manage related litigation to prevent prejudice to the parties in the family law proceedings.

Cleary J ordered that Mr D and Mr E, in their capacity as liquidators of F Pty Ltd, be joined as second respondents to the family law proceedings. Furthermore, the Court made an interlocutory order restraining the second respondents, pursuant to section 114 of the *Family Law Act 1975* (Cth), from taking any further steps in the proceedings that had been filed in the Supreme Court of New South Wales. These orders were made pending further order of the Court.