Grimaldi v Chameleon Mining NL (No 2)

JurisdictionAustralia Federal only
Judgment Date2012
Neutral Citation[2012] FCAFC 6,2012-0221 FCA B
Date2012
CourtFull Federal Court (Australia)
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4 firm's commentaries
  • Jumping at shadows - shadow and de facto directors
    • Australia
    • Mondaq Australia
    • 27 July 2015
    ...creditors or other third parties. Footnotes 1Grimaldi v Chameleon Mining NL (No 2); Chameleon Mining NL v Murchison Metals Ltd (2012) 200 FCR 296; 287 ALR 22; [2012] FCAFC 6; BC201200621. 2Above, n 1, at [61]-[62]. 3Above, n 1, at [45]. 4Above, n 1, at [47]. 5Above, n 1, at [62]. 6Shafron v......
  • Who is a Director? Federal Court Clarifies Position
    • Australia
    • Mondaq Australia
    • 23 April 2012
    ...9 of that Act. Further guidance on when such persons may be directors has now been provided in Grimaldi v Chameleon Mining NL (No 2) [2012] FCAFC 6, with the Full Federal Court finding an external company consultant to be a director and liable for Corporations Act 2001(Cth) Chameleon was a ......
  • Insolvency - Legal Update
    • Australia
    • Mondaq Australia
    • 5 May 2012
    ...the key strategic planning and management of a mining company was in fact a section 9 director in Grimaldi v. Chameleon Mining NL (No 2) [2012] FCAFC 6. Litigation Funding and Liquidator Proceedings Litigation funding continues to rise as do the size and complexity of funded actions, includ......
  • Construction & Infrastructure - What's News? - 28 February 2012
    • Australia
    • Mondaq Australia
    • 4 March 2012
    ...of primary judge open on the evidence and not shown to be wrong – appeal dismissed. More... Grimaldi v Chameleon Mining NL (No 2) [2012] FCAFC 6 CORPORATIONS – Corporations Act 2001 (Cth), s 9 – "director" – "officer" – de facto director – no single test for determining whether a person is ......
12 books & journal articles
  • UNAUTHORISED FIDUCIARY GAINS AND THE CONSTRUCTIVE TRUST
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 2016, December 2016
    • 1 December 2016
    ...Products Ltd v United States Surgical Corp(1984) 156 CLR 41 at 107–108, per Mason J. 25 See, eg, Grimaldi v Chameleon Mining NL (No 2)(2012) 200 FCR 296, noted in Lusina Ho, “Bribes and the Constructive Trust as a Chameleon”(2012) 128 LQR 486. 26[1992] 3 SLR(R) 638, noted in Hans Tjio, “Ret......
  • Credit Advisers, Consumer Credit and Equitable Fiduciary Obligations
    • United Kingdom
    • Federal Law Review No. 47-1, March 2019
    • 1 March 2019
    ...Consumer Credit Protection Act 2009 (Cth) s 47(1)(b) (‘Credit Regime’).6. Ibid s 47(1)(a).7. Grimaldi v Chameleon Mining NL [No 2] (2012) 200 FCR 296, 345 [178] (Finn, Stone and Perram JJ).8. Ibid.9. See Simone Degeling and Jessica Hudson, ‘On Bein g Fiduciary Focused: Statutory and Equitab......
  • UNJUST ENRICHMENT, PROPRIETARY SUBROGATION AND UNSATISFACTORY EXPLANATIONS
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 2016, December 2016
    • 1 December 2016
    ...El Ajou v Dollar Land Holdings plc[1993] 3 All ER 717. 77Muschinski v Dodds(1985) 160 CLR 583; Grimaldi v Chameleon Mining NL (No 2)[2012] FCAFC 6; [2012] FCR 296. There are signs of its acceptance in New Zealand: Commonwealth Reserves I, LC v Chodar[2001] 2 NZLR 374; Regal Castings Ltd v L......
  • CONSTRUCTIVE TRUSTS AND DISCRETION IN AUSTRALIA: TAKING STOCK.
    • Australia
    • Melbourne University Law Review Vol. 44 No. 3, April 2021
    • 1 April 2021
    ...Virgo, 'The Genetically Modified Constructive Trust' (2016) 2(2) Canadian Journal of Comparative and Contemporary Law 579, 583-4. (44) (2012) 200 FCR 296, 405 [511] (Finn, Stone and Perram JJ) ('Grimaldi'), quoting RP Austin, 'Constructive Trusts' in PD Finn (ed), Essays in Equity (Law Book......
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