Footnotes

CHAPTER 1 - Introduction

[1]        Journals of the Senate, No. 72 – 25 November 2011, p. 1961.

[2]        Journals of the Senate, No. 87 – 22 March 2012, p. 2357.

[3]        The Hon Brendan O'Connor MP, House of Representatives Hansard, 23 November 2011, p. 13553.

[4]        Australian Law Reform Commission, Managing Discovery: Discovery of documents in Federal Courts, ALRC Report 115, March 2011. 

[5]        The Standing Committee of Attorneys-General (SCAG) has been superseded by the Standing Council on Law and Justice. The amendments in this Bill were developed under the auspices of SCAG, and endorsed by SCAG, and for that reason the report refers to SCAG and not to the Standing Council on Law and Justice.

[6]        Explanatory Memorandum (EM), p. 1.

[7]        See Administrative Appeals Tribunal, Submission 1, p. 1 and Law Council of Australia, Submission 3, pp 6-7.

[8]        House of Representative Hansard, 23 November 2011, pp 13553-13554.

[9]        EM, p. 2. New South Wales has already implemented the model legislation through the Court Suppression and Non-publication Orders Act 2010 (NSW).

[10]      EM, p. 2.

[11]      EM, p. 2.

[12]      EM, p. 2. The legislation is the Vexatious Proceedings Act 2005 (Qld), the Vexatious Proceedings Act 2007 (NT) and the Vexatious Proceedings Act 2008 (NSW), respectively.

[13]      EM, p. 3.

[14]      EM, p. 3.

[15]      EM, p. 3.

CHAPTER 2 - Key issues

[1]        Submission 7, p. 1.

[2]        Submission 7, p. 1.

[3]        Ms Gail Hambly, Member, Australia's Right to Know, Committee Hansard, 1 March 2012, p. 6.

[4]        Ms Kimberly Williams, Attorney-General's Department, Committee Hansard, 1 March 2012, p. 16.

[5]        Answer to question on notice, received 7 March 2012, p. 2.

[6]        In setting out proposed amendments to the Bill, ARTK's submission refers to the provisions in new Part VAA of the Federal Court Act.

[7]        Submission 7, pp 5-6.

[8]        Submission 3, p. 4. The Queensland Law Society also suggested that proposed new paragraph 102PF(1)(c), which deals with the issuance of an order when 'the order is necessary to protect the safety of any person', should include a specific reference to children and young people: Submission 4, p. 1.

[9]        [2011] HCA 4.

[10]      [2011] HCA 4 at [21]-[22] and [27]. Answer to question on notice, received 7 March 2012, p. 2.

[11]      Ms Kimberley Williams, Attorney-General's Department, Committee Hansard, 1 March 2012, p. 16. See also Answer to question on notice, received 7 March 2012, p. 2.

[12]      [2010] HCA 21.

[13]      Answer to question on notice, received 7 March 2012, p. 2.

[14]      EM, p. 17.

[15]      Ms Kimberly Williams, Attorney-General's Department, Committee Hansard, 1 March 2012, p. 18.

[16]      Answer to question on notice, received 7 March 2012, p. 3. See also Ms Kimberley Williams, Attorney-General's Department, Committee Hansard, 1 March 2012, p. 18.

[17]      Ms Kimberley Williams, Attorney-General's Department, Committee Hansard, 1 March 2012, p. 19.

[18]      Submission 7, pp 8-9.

[19]      Ms Kimberley Williams, Attorney General's Department, Committee Hansard, 1 March 2012, p. 17.

[20]      Submission 2, p. 1.

[21]      Submission 2, p. 2.

[22]      Submission 2, p. 3.

[23]      Committee Hansard, 1 March 2012, p. 3; Answer to question on notice, received
7 March 2012, p. 1.

[24]      Committee Hansard, 1 March 2012, p. 1.

[25]      The Family Court can also hear matters under the Marriage Act 1961, the Child Support (Registration and Collection) Act 1998, the Child Support (Assessment) Act 1989, the Bankruptcy Act 1966, and some matters under the Corporations Act 2001 and the Administrative Decisions (Judicial Review) Act 1977.

[26]      Submission 2, p. 3. See also Mr Rick O'Brien, Law Council of Australia, Committee Hansard, 1 March 2011, p. 10.

[27]      Committee Hansard, 1 March 2012, p. 1.

[28]      Submission 2, p. 3.

[29]      Submission 2, pp 3-4.

[30]      Submission 2, p. 3, referring to proposed new paragraph 102QB(2)(b) of the Family Law Act which provides that a court may make an order prohibiting the person from instituting proceedings (or proceedings of a particular type) under the Family Law Act in a court having jurisdiction under the Family Law Act.

[31]      Ms Kimberley Williams, Attorney General's Department, Committee Hansard, 1 March 2012, p. 15.

[32]      Ms Kimberley Williams, Attorney-General's Department, Committee Hansard, 1 March 2012, p. 15.

[33]      Ms Kimberley Williams, Attorney-General's Department, Committee Hansard, 1 March 2012 , p. 15.

[34]      Ms Kimberley Williams, Attorney-General's Department, Committee Hansard, 1 March 2012, p. 15.

[35]      Ms Kimberley Williams, Attorney-General's Department, Committee Hansard, 1 March 2012, p. 14.

[36]      Committee Hansard, 1 March 2012, p. 3.

[37]      Ms Kimberley Williams, Attorney-General's Department, Committee Hansard, 1 March 2012, pp 14 and 19.

[38]      Ms Kimberley Williams, Attorney-General's Department, Committee Hansard, 1 March 2012, p. 14.

[39]      Submission 2, p. 5.

[40]      Subsection 102QB(1) provides that section 102QB only applies where the court is satisfied that a person has frequently instituted or conducted vexatious proceedings.

[41]      Submission 2, pp 4-5.

[42]      Committee Hansard, 1 March 2012, p. 2.

[43]      Ms Kimberley Williams, Attorney-General's Department, Committee Hansard, 1 March 2012, p. 20.

[44]      Ms Kimberley Williams, Attorney-General's Department, Committee Hansard, 1 March 2012, p. 15.

[45]      Ms Kimberley Williams, Attorney-General's Department, Committee Hansard, 1 March 2012, p. 19.

[46]      Mr Rick O'Brien, Law Council of Australia, Committee Hansard, 1 March 2012, p. 13.

[47]      Mr Rick O'Brien, Law Council of Australia, Committee Hansard, 1 March 2012, pp 11-12.

[48]      Submission 3, p. 6.

[49]      Mr Rick O'Brien, Law Council of Australia, Committee Hansard, 1 March 2012, pp 12.

[50]      Ms Janet Power, Attorney-General's Department, Committee Hansard, 1 March 2012, p. 19.

[51]      Ms Kimberly Williams, Attorney-General's Department, Committee Hansard, 1 March 2012, p. 19.