CFMEU v Master Builders Queensland and Building Unions Superannuation Scheme (Queensland) Pty Ltd [2022] FCA 283 and related actions by APRA

Appeared for trustee of BUSSQ superannuation scheme, instructed by Thomson Geer.

CORPORATIONS – consideration of the question of costs in relation to a proceeding concerning the Trustee of a superannuation scheme and provisions in relation to the filling of vacancies on the Board of the Trustee of the Scheme

COSTS – consideration of the principles to be applied in exercising the discretion as to costs in circumstances where a proceeding has been resolved and a notice of discontinuance filed (subject to costs) a relatively short time prior to the date for the hearing of the proceeding

Judgment:

• Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Industrial Union of Employees, Queensland v Queensland Master Builders Association, Industrial Organisation of Employees, in the matter of BUSS (Queensland) Pty Ltd [2022] FCA 283 (Greenwood J)

Media coverage:

• BUSSQ’s stunning governance deadlock (Australian Financial Review, 16 February 2022)