FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA

 

Australian Competition & Consumer Commission v

Tyco Australia Pty Ltd ACN 008 399 004

[2000] FCA 832

 


AUSTRALIAN COMPETITION AND CONSUMER COMMISSION v TYCO AUSTRALIA PTY LTD (formerly Wormald Australia Pty Ltd) T/as Wormald Fire Systems ACN 008 399 004 AND ORS

Q 239 OF 1999


DRUMMOND J

13 JUNE 2000

BRISBANE


IN THE FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA

 

QUEENSLAND DISTRICT REGISTRY

Q 239 OF 1999

 

BETWEEN:

AUSTRALIAN COMPETITION AND CONSUMER COMMISSION

Applicant

 

AND:

TYCO AUSTRALIA PTY LTD (formerly Wormald Australia Pty Ltd) T/as Wormald Fire Systems ACN 008 399 004

First Respondent

 

GRINNELL ASIA PACIFIC PTY LIMITED T/as O’Donnell Griffin ACN 003 905 093

Second Respondent

 

FFE BUILDING SERVICES LTD (formerly Chubb Building Services Ltd) (formerly James Hardie Building Services P/L) T/as Fire Fighting Enterprises ACN 000 067 541

Third Respondent

 

PATRICK FIRE PROTECTION PTY LTD ACN 010 592 999

Fourth Respondent

 

INDEPENDENT FIRE SPRINKLERS PTY LTD

ACN 009 976 854

Fifth Respondent

 

INDEPENDENT FIRE ALARMS PTY LTD ACN 009 705 720

Sixth Respondent

 

ALLFIRE SYSTEMS PTY LTD ACN 010 713 149

Seventh Respondent

 

THE ASSET GROUP (BRISBANE) PTY LTD (formerly Asset Fire and Security Pty Ltd) ACN 061 327 786

Eighth Respondent

 

ASSOCIATED FIRE SYSTEMS PTY LTD ACN 010 404 770

Ninth Respondent

 

ENTERPRISE FIRE PROTECTION PTY LTD ACN 010 595 212

Tenth Respondent

 

ENTERPRISE FIRE PROTECTION ELECTRICS PTY LTD

ACN 069 159 744

Eleventh Respondent

 

FIREVAC PTY LTD ACN 010 607 379

Twelfth Respondent

 

IMPACT FIRE PROTECTION PTY LTD ACN 006 615 452

Thirteenth Respondent

 

PREMIER FIRE PROTECTION (QLD) PTY LTD

ACN 050 410 636

Fourteenth Respondent

 

TRIDENT FIRE PROTECTION PTY LTD ACN 010 243 811

Fifteenth Respondent

 

SENSOR SYSTEMS (AUST) PTY LTD ACN 065 444 368

Sixteenth Respondent

 

F & H PTY LTD (formerly Matthews Fire Alarm Pty Ltd)

ACN 009 659 410

Seventeenth Respondent

 

BURMESS PTY LTD T/as BEI Services ACN 010 623 677

Eighteenth Respondent

 

RICHARD McCORMACK

Nineteenth Respondent

 

KENNETH EDWIN WALLER

Twentieth Respondent

 

KEVIN FISHER

Twenty-First Respondent

 

MATTHEW SPROULE

Twenty-Second Respondent

 

TERENCE MICHAEL McDONALD

Twenty-Third Respondent

 

RAYMOND EDWARD KING

Twenty-Fourth Respondent

 

MICHAEL JOHN LEWIS

Twenty-Fifth Respondent

 

DAVID JAMES CROSBY

Twenty-Sixth Respondent

 

TREVOR PATRICK

Twenty-Seventh Respondent

 

DEREK COOPER

Twenty-Eighth Respondent

 

ALEXANDER ROBERT THOMSON

Twenty-Ninth Respondent

 

GORDON EDMUND DAY

Thirtieth Respondent

 

ALLAN GEOFFREY MURRELL

Thirty-First Respondent

 

KERRY JOHN MOULDS

Thirty-Second Respondent

 

KEVYN RAYMOND ALLEN

Thirty-Third Respondent

 

JOHN EDMUND BARNEY

Thirty-Fourth Respondent

 

BRIAN GEOFFREY DAVIES

Thirty-Fifth Respondent

 

DAVID WELLMAND DOUYERE

Thirty-Sixth Respondent

 

DAVID WILLIAM KEMP

Thirty-Seventh Respondent

 

LESLIE JOHN BAILEY

Thirty-Eighth Respondent

 

EDWARD PETER GOLEMBA

Thirty-Ninth Respondent

 

MICHAEL WILD

Fortieth Respondent

 

STEVEN WALTER SPURR

Forty-First Respondent

 

CLINT LAWRENCE PRICKETT

Forty-Second Respondent

 

IAN JAMES TAYLOR

Forty-Third Respondent

 

WILLIAM JOHN LYNCH

Forty-Fourth Respondent

 

BRIAN GRAHAM STARKEY

Forty-Fifth Respondent

 

KENNETH BRIAN THOMSON

Forty-Sixth Respondent

 

EON WILLIAM RADLEY

Forty-Seventh Respondent

 

GREGORY JOHN BOURKE

Forty-Eighth Respondent

 

JOHN FRANKLIN PREECE

Forty-Ninth Respondent

 

ROY ERNEST TESCH

Fiftieth Respondent

 

DENNIS BRETT

Fifty-First Respondent

 

NIGEL STEPHEN REHBOCK

Fifty-Second Respondent

 

KENNETH NORMAN ROSE

Fifty-Third Respondent

 

NOEL ANTHONY MEYER

Fifty-Fourth Respondent

 

WILLIAM FRANCIS SHEEHAN

Fifty-Fifth Respondent

 

ALAN JOHN BLUNDELL

Fifty-Sixth Respondent

 

CHUBB AUSTRALIA LIMITED

Fifty-Seventh Respondent

 

CHUBB AUSTRALIA LIMITED

First Cross-Claimant

 

DIETOOL (WA) PTY LIMITED

First Cross-Respondent

 

JAMES HARDIE INDUSTRIES LIMITED

Second Cross-Respondent

 



CORRIGENDA

 

 

Amendment to the Reasons for Judgment of the Honourable Justice Drummond delivered 13 June 2000:

Delete the date of the Reasons for Judgment of “16 June 2000” and insert in lieu thereof “13 June 2000”;

par 2, l 5 - delete “Patricks” and insert in lieu thereof “Patrick Fire Protection Pty Ltd (“Patricks”)”;

par 2, l 7 - delete “s 46” and insert in lieu thereof “s 45”;

par 2, l 8 - delete “Mr Thomson’s” and insert in lieu thereof “Mr Patrick’s”;

par 6, l 7 - delete “FFE” and insert in lieu thereof “FFE Building Services Ltd (“FFE”);

certification - delete “seventeen (17)” and insert in lieu thereof “seven (7)”.


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ASSOCIATE TO JUSTICE DRUMMOND

31 August 2000