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Commercial Court

The Commercial Court is comprised of 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 Pagone            

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

Associate Judge:            The Honourable Associate Justice Kings

List D

Judge in Charge:            The Honourable Justice Hargrave

Associate Judge:            The Honourable Associate Justice Daly

List E

Judge in Charge:            The Honourable Justice Judd and the honourable Justice Davies

Associate Judge:            The Honourable Associate Justice Efthim

                                    The Honourable Associate Justice Gardiner         

Associates Contacts

List A

Madhavi Ligam Associate to Justice Pagone Tel: 9603 6627	Sarah Mauriks Associate to Justice Pagone Tel: 9603 6239
Claire Burchell Associate to Associate Justice Efthim Tel: 9603 9427

 

List B

Tim Greenway Associate to Justice Judd Tel: 9603 6128

Ivana Mujic     Associate to Associate Justice Gardiner         Tel: 9603 9019

 

List C

Margot Moylan Associate to Justice Croft Tel: 9603 6153	Drossos Stamboulakis Associate to Justice Croft Tel: 9603 6153
Isabelle Smith Associate to Associate Justice Kings   Tel: 9603 9322

 

List D

Bella Li Associate to Justice Hargrave Tel: 9603 7040	Laura Heffes Associate to Justice Hargrave Tel: 9603 6209
Catherine Mukhtar Associate to Associate Justice Daly Tel: 9603 9054

 

List E

Tim Greenway Associate to Justice Judd Tel: 9603 6128	Melanie Szydzik Associate to Justice Davies Tel: 9603 6021	Patricia Athanasiadis Associate to Justice Davies Tel: 9603 4132
Claire Burchell Associate to Associate Justice Efthim Tel: 9603 9427	Ivana Mujic  Associate to Associate Justice Gardiner Tel: 9603 9019

 

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.

 

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.

 

Existing Cases in the Commercial List or Corporations Cases

• All cases presently in the Commercial List or Corporations List will be automatically entered in the Commercial Court without further entry fee or order.
• Existing Corporations List cases will be included in Commercial Court list E.
• Existing Commercial List cases presently allocated to Justice Pagone's list will be included in list A.
• Existing Commercial List cases presently allocated to Justice Hollingworth's list will be included in list B.

 

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 List.

 

New Cases

• New Cases may be entered in the Commercial Court by endorsement on the heading in accordance with paragraph 9 of the Notice to Practitioners 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 cases entered.