Robinson v Deep Investments Pty Ltd

• 1. Practice and Procedure
  2. › Abuse of process
  3. › Successive proceedings
  4. › Claims arising from same subject matter as prior consent judgment
  5. › Whether new claims necessarily required establishing facts inconsistent with consent judgment
  6. › Whether abuse of process applies to parties not joined in earlier proceedings
• 1. Practice and Procedure
  2. › Abuse of process
  3. › Successive proceedings
  4. › Forensic decisions to confine claims in earlier proceedings
  5. › Public interest in finality of litigation
  6. › Duty to raise connected claims in earlier proceedings
• 1. Practice and Procedure
  2. › Estoppel
  3. › Anshun estoppel
  4. › Consent judgment
  5. › Whether claims so connected to subject matter of first proceeding as to make it unreasonable not to have raised them
  6. › Whether Anshun estoppel applies to non-parties to original proceedings
  7. › Port of Melbourne Authority v Anshun Pty Ltd (1981) 147 CLR 589
• 1. Practice and Procedure
  2. › Summary dismissal
  3. › Interlocutory appeals
  4. › Whether leave to appeal should be granted
  5. › Whether proceedings should be summarily dismissed as abuse of process

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