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  • Home
  • About the Authors
  • Ch 1: Overview
  • Ch 2: Constitution
  • Ch 3: Substantive Law
    • 1. Aged Care
    • 2. Commercial >
      • A. Bankruptcy & Insolvency
      • b. Contract
      • c. Competition & Consumer
      • d. Corporations & Associations
      • e. Transactions
    • 3. Criminal >
      • a. Bail
      • b. Corrections Management
      • c. New Crimes / Infringements
      • d. Sentencing
      • e. Serious & Sex Offenders
      • f. Visitation
      • g. Enforcement
    • 4. Customs & Trade >
      • a. Customs
      • b. Retail Trade
      • c. Gambling & Casinos
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      • b. Parenting Orders
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      • b. Audits
      • c. Economic Support / Stimulus
      • d. Social Security
      • e. Superannuation
      • f. Taxation
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      • c. Stand-downs, redundancies & terminations
      • d. Jobkeeper
      • e. Remuneration & wages
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      • g. Protected action
      • h. Workers Comp & Employee safety
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    • 15. Migration
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    • 17. Planning & Environment
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      • b. Caveats
      • c. Mortgages
      • d. Housing Assistance
      • e. Ownership
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      • a. Biosecurity / Public Health
      • b. Health & Insurance
      • c. Medicine & Midwifery
      • d. Medicines, Vaccines & Therapeutic Goods
    • 20. Quarantine
    • 21. Regulatory / Professional Discipline
    • 22. Tort
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  • Ch 4: Court Practice & Procedure
    • 1. Open Justice
    • 2. Legislation, Rules and Practice Notes
    • 3. Evidence
    • 4. Criminal Procedure >
      • A. Adjournments
      • B. Hearings by alternative means
      • C. Crimes Mental Impairment
      • D. Juries and trials by judge alone
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      • A. Abridgements
      • B. Adjournments
      • C. Amendments
      • D. Determinations otherwise than by oral hearing
      • E. Discovery
      • F. Hearings by alternative means
      • G. Security for costs
      • H. Service of documents
      • I. Stay of proceedings, judgments, orders and other decisions
      • J. Timetabling
      • K. Trials by judge alone
  • Ch 5: Further Resources
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  • Last updated: 15 May 2020 (cases); 21 June 2020 (legislation)
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5. Civil Procedure

G.  Security for costs

 i.  Legislation

​As of the last update, we are not aware of any COVID-19 related legislation in this area.

ii.  Case law

Issues relating to COVID-19 have been considered in the context of applications for security for costs.

In Vincentia MC Pharmacy Pty Ltd v Australian Community Pharmacy Authority [2020] FCA 438, the possibility of an appellant being required to lose staff if ordered to give security for costs, and the environment of job insecurity caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, were considered to weigh (together with other considerations) against the making of an order for security pending appeal ([19]).

​The ACT Supreme Court took into account the economic impact of COVID-19 on certain plaintiffs in determining the amount to be ordered on a successful application for security for costs: Today’s Homes and Lifestyle Pty Ltd (in liquidation) v McCoullough [2020] ACTSC 72, [19].

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