Portelli and Wymer

In *Portelli and Wymer*, Loughnan J of the Federal Court of Australia considered an application for review concerning the venue of proceedings. The dispute involved the consolidation of two separate court proceedings, SYC 1941 of 2019 and MLC 3231 of 2019.

The primary legal issue before the Court was whether to grant the application for review and, consequently, to transfer the venue of the proceedings from the Sydney Registry to the Melbourne Registry. This involved determining the appropriate registry for the consolidated proceedings.

Loughnan J granted the application for review, ordering that the venue for these proceedings be the Melbourne Registry. The Court further directed the Registry Manager of the Sydney Registry to transmit the relevant papers to the Melbourne Registry for consolidation with the existing proceedings there.