Supreme Court of Victoria
LYONS J
13 October 2021
[2021] VSC 660
Practice and procedure — Originating process — Service out of jurisdiction — Service outside of Australia — Hague Convention on Service Abroad — Defendant in Convention country — Service not effected by transmission of judicial document through a Convention ‘Central Authority’ — Where service effected in accordance with the law of defendant’s seat — Whether service in a Convention country must be through a ‘Central Authority’ — Hague Convention on Service Abroad of Judicial and Extrajudicial Documents in Civil or Commercial Matters — Supreme Court (General Civil procedure) Rules 2015 (Vic), r 7.09, ord 80.
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