Thiel v Commissioner of Taxation

[1991] HCATrans 78

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IN THE HIGH COURT OF AUSTRALIA

Office of the Registry

Perth No Pll of 1989

B e t w e e n -

GUNTER THIEL

Appellant

and

COMMISSIONER OF TAXATION

Respondent

Publication of Order for

Costs

MASON CJ DAWSON J TOOHEY J

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TRANSCRIPT OF PROCEEDINGS

FROM ADELAIDE BY VIDEO LINK TO CANBERRA

ON FRIDAY, 15 MARCH 1991, AT 9.33 AM

Copyright in the High Court of Australia

MASON CJ:  When the Court delivered judgment in this matter

on 26 August 1990 it reserved liberty to the

appellant to apply with respect to the cost of the

proceedings in the Supreme Court of Western

Australia and the Full Court of the Federal Court. The appellant has applied for an order for his costs of those proceedings and the Court has had the advantage of considering written submissions

filed by the appellant and the respondent.

The Court has come to the conclusion that the

respondent should pay the appellant's costs of the

proceedings in the supreme court and the Federal

court.

In the result the Court makes the following

order: order that the appellant's costs of the

proceedings in the Supreme Court of Western

Australia and the Full Court of the Federal Court

be paid by the respondent.

AT 9.34 AM THE MATTER WAS ADJOURNED SINE DIE

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