Woodruff v Manda Capital Holdings Pty Ltd

[2025] VSCA 164

Victorian Court of Appeal

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Catchwords

1. Practice and Procedure
2. › Freezing orders
3. › Good arguable case
4. › Evidentiary standard
5. › Whether judge erred in applying s 1274B(2) of the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth)
6. › Whether ASIC documents given impermissible elevated evidentiary status
7. › Whether burden of proof shifted
8. › Supreme Court (General Civil Procedure) Rules 2015 (Vic), ord 37A
9. › Corporations Act 2001 (Cth), s 1274B(2)
1. Evidence
2. › Documentary evidence
3. › ASIC records
4. › Evidentiary status under s 1274B(2) of the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth)
5. › Whether prima facie evidence provision or proof in absence of evidence to the contrary
6. › Whether evidence to the contrary displaces statutory proof mechanism
7. › Corporations Act 2001 (Cth), s 1274B(2)
1. Appeal
2. › Standard of appellate review
3. › Freezing orders
4. › Whether correctness standard or House v The King applies
5. › Distinction between construction of statutory provision and application to facts

Quick Take

ASIC Form 484s constitute admissible evidence of the underlying transactions they record, irrespective of the operation of s 1274B(2) of the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth), and a judge considering a freezing order application is entitled to weigh them against other evidence without according them special or elevated evidentiary status.