Commercial Court

The Commercial Court comprises a specialist team of eight judges and associate judges within the Commercial and Equity Division of the Trial division.  A proceeding in the Commercial Court will be allocated to a docket of one of five lists.

 

List Details

The judicial officers allocated to each list are as follows:

List A

Judge in Charge:            The Honourable Justice Almond            

Associate Judge:            The Honourable Associate Justice Efthim

List B

Judge in Charge:            The Honourable Justice Judd

Associate Judge:            The Honourable Associate Justice Gardiner

List C

Judge in Charge:            The Honourable Justice Croft

List D

Judge in Charge:            The Honourable Justice Davies

Associate Judge:            The Honourable Associate Justice Daly

List E

Judge in Charge:            The Honourable Justice Sifris

Corporations List

Judges in the List:            The Honourable Justice Robson

                                     The Honourable Justice Ferguson

 

Associate Judge:            The Honourable Associate Justice Gardiner

                                     The Honourable Associate Justice Randall  

Taxation List

Judge in Charge:            The Honourable Justice Davies

Arbitration List

Judge in Charge:            The Honourable Justice Croft

      

Associates Contacts

List A

Evelyn Tadros  Associate to Justice Almond Tel: 9603 6384	Lucy Line Associate to Justice Almond Tel: 9603 6075
Christina Wheeler Associate to Associate Justice Efthim Tel: 9603 9427

 

List B

Samuel Burt Associate to Justice Judd Tel: 9603 6128
Lauren Simpkins Associate to Associate Justice Gardiner Tel: 9603 9019

 

List C

Kieran Hickie Associate to Justice Croft Tel: 9603 6153

William Ho Associate to Justice Croft  Tel: 9603 7731

 

List D

Michelle Jennings Associate to Justice Davies Tel: 9603 6021	Fiona Cameron Associate to Justice Davies Tel: 9603 4132
Sarah Newton Associate to Associate Justice Daly Tel: 9603 9054

 

List E

Devon Whittle Associate to Justice Sifris Tel: 9603 6364

TBC Associate to Justice Sifris Tel: 9603 6364

 

Corporations List

Daniel Kinsey Associate to Justice Robson Tel: 9603 6669	Samantha Tasic Associate to Justice Ferguson Tel: 9603 6380
	Mitchell Waters  Associate to Justice Ferguson  Tel: 9603 6110
Lauren Simpkins Associate to Justice Gardiner Tel: 9603 9019	Alev Girgin Associate to Justice Randall Tel: 9603 9050

 

Taxation List

Michelle Jennings Associate to Justice Davies  Tel: 9603 6021	Fiona Cameron Associate to Justice Davies  Tel: 9603 4132

 

Arbitration List

Kieran Hickie Associate to Justice Croft Tel: 9603 6153

William Ho Associate to Justice Croft   Tel: 9603 7731

 

Fees

Please refer to Court Fees.

 

Directions Dates, Times and Location

The Commercial Court will normally sit on Monday to Thursday, reserving Fridays for directions and applications.

For Court Room Locations please check the Daily List.

 

Where Process is Issued

Principal Registry, Level 2, 436 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne, Victoria, 3000 or via CITEC.

 

Communications to the Court

Communications to the Court should be directed to:

• the registrar, where the communication concerns a registry matter;
• the associate of the list judge, where the communication concerns a matter in a list of if this is not possible, to the associate of the list associate judge;
• to the associate of the list A judge otherwise;

Enquiries regarding urgent applications which have not yet been allocated to a list should be directed to the associate of the list A judge.

 

Entry to the Commercial Court

Generally, any commercial proceeding or corporations case may be entered in the Commercial Court unless:

• it is not a case more suitable to be entered into one of the other specialist lists in the Trial Division;
• by its size or otherwise, it is such as is more appropriately more managed and tried in the Commercial and Equity division outside the Commercial Court.

 

Other Cases Presently in the Commercial and Equity Division

• Existing Commercial proceedings cases may be entered in the Commercial Court upon order and upon payment of the fee for entry into the Commercial Court.

 

New Cases

• New Cases may be entered in the Commercial Court by endorsement on the heading in accordance with Schedule 1 of Practice Note No.10 (The Green Book, edition 3) to the initiating process or by court order.
• The Commercial List entry fee is payable for commercial proceedings entered in the Commercial Court, BUT NOT for Corporations, Arbitration, Admiralty and Taxation Appeals.