Mark J. Cohen
Admission:
Professional membership:
Experience:
Work experience in the field of banking and finance focusing on capital markets activity and corporate reconstructions
Areas of Expertise
Of note:
The Associated Alloys case (2000) 202 CLR 588 – first determination by the High Court of Australia of the nature and effect of retention of title clauses and effect on rights of creditors in liquidation
Ex parte Cook; Re Jarman (No. 1) (1997) 188 CLR 595 – determination by the High Court of Australia of the constitutional question of the extent of that courts exclusive jurisdiction and its power to remit writs of certiorari and mandamus to statutory federal courts
Ex parte Cook; Re Jarman (No. 2) (1996) 136 ALR 233; 70 ALJR 550 – determination by High Court of powers of federal industrial court to order an enquiry into the conduct of industrial organisation elections
Hoskins v Van den Braak (1998) 43 NSWLR 290 – determination by NSW Court of Appeal of effectiveness of purported joinder of a person to proceedings before a court and liability flowing therefrom
Workcover Authority of NSW v. Picton Truck and Trailer Repairs Pty Ltd (Deregistered) (2004) 51 ACSR 102; 22 ACLC 1517 – determination of the questions relevant to a claim to be a person aggrieved by deregistration of a company
Universal Music Australia Pty Ltd v. Cooper (2005) 150 FCR 1 – first determination by an Australian court of questions of copyright relating to communications by the Internet and liabilities of Internet Service Providers (ISP’s)
SMEC International Pty Ltd v. CEMS Engineering Inc (2001) 38 ACSR 595; 162 FLR 383; 19 ACLC 1309 – consideration of all of the questions relevant to the validity of a creditors statutory demand
Bassoak Pty Ltd (recs and mgrs apptd) v Rellgrove Pty Ltd — (2006) 57 ACSR 86; (2006) 24 ACLC 534 – consideration of grounds under which court will issue a search and seizure warrant to a liquidator
Vrkic v Otta International Pty Ltd — (2003) 12 BPR 22,535 – determination of necessary content and construction of documents sufficient to constitute an immediate equitable interest in land
Outside the Law:
Activities include theatre going and the arts; bushwalking; snow skiing |
