WALT & QUINN

[2020] FamCA 383

FAMILY COURT OF AUSTRALIA

WALT & QUINN [2020] FamCA 383

FAMILY LAW – ENFORCEMENT – applicant ordered to pay $20,000 by way of costs pursuant to orders of Baumann J – applicant a pauper – unjust and inequitable to compel enforcement – respondent seeking access to applicant’s superannuation – application refused.

Biosecurity Act 2015 (Cth)
Family Law Act 1975 (Cth), ss 79A, 105, 106A, 112AD, 117
Family Law Rules 2004 (Cth), rr 11.10, 15.09(1)(b), 20.01, 20.07(d), 21.08
Federal Circuit Court Rules 2001 (Cth), rr 25B.07(2)(f), 25B.13(d)
Superannuation Industry (Supervision) Act 1993 (Cth)

D Attorneys & Sresbodan [2017] FamCA 266
Dasreef Pty Ltd v Hawchar (2011) 243 CLR 588
Gaspaldi & Gaspaldi [2009] FamCA 1121
Hall & Hall (No 2) [2015] FamCA 219
In the Marriage of Collins (1992) 16 Fam LR 261
In the Marriage of Jones (1990) 14 Fam LR 19
In the Marriage of Ramsay (1982) 8 Fam LR 863
In the Marriage of Ramsey (No 2) (1983) 8 Fam LR 1005
Keane v Keane (2013) 50 Fam LR 120
Makita (Australia) Pty Ltd v Sprowles (2001) 52 NSWLR 705
Matthews v Matthews (2006) 37 Fam LR 20
Nixon & Nixon [2013] FamCA 147
Quinn & Walt [2019] FamCA 15
Stephens v Stephens (Enforcement) (2009) 42 Fam LR 423
Stephens v Stephens (Enforcement) (Costs) (2010) 44 Fam LR 117
Walt & Quinn [2018] FamCA 855

Professor Andrew Burrows, Understanding the Law of Obligations: Essays on Contract, Tort and Restitution (Hart Publishing Oxford, 2000)
David Wright, Understanding the Law of Obligations: Essays on Contract, Tort and Restitution by Andrew Burrows (1998) 20 Adelaide Law Review 369

APPLICANT: Ms Walt

RESPONDENT: Mr Quinn

FILE NUMBER: MLC 508 of 2018

DATE DELIVERED: 22 May 2020

PLACE DELIVERED: Melbourne

PLACE HEARD: Melbourne

JUDGMENT OF: The Honourable Justice Wilson

HEARING DATE: 7 April 2020

DATE OF FINAL WRITTEN SUBMISSIONS: 30 April 2020

REPRESENTATION

COUNSEL FOR THE APPLICANT: Not applicable

SOLICITOR FOR THE APPLICANT: Not applicable

COUNSEL FOR THE RESPONDENT: Not applicable

SOLICITOR FOR THE RESPONDENT: Lawyers by the Bay

Orders

1. The initiating application filed by the respondent on 19 December 2019 and sealed on 20 December 2019 is dismissed.

2. I refuse leave to amend the respondent’s application in a case.

3. I make no order as to costs. 

Note: The form of the order is subject to the entry of the order in the Court’s records.

IT IS NOTED that publication of this judgment by this Court under the pseudonym Walt & Quinn has been approved by the Chief Justice pursuant to s 121(9)(g) of the Family Law Act 1975 (Cth).

Note: This copy of the Court’s Reasons for Judgment may be subject to review to remedy minor typographical or grammatical errors (r 17.02A(b) of the Family Law Rules 2004 (Cth)), or to record a variation to the order pursuant to r 17.02 Family Law Rules 2004 (Cth).

FAMILY COURT OF AUSTRALIA AT MELBOURNE

FILE NUMBER: MLC 508 of 2018

Ms Walt

Applicant

And

Mr Quinn

Respondent

REASONS FOR JUDGMENT

Introduction

1. When sitting in…