FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA ACT 1976 - SECT 51 Formal defects not to invalidate
FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA ACT 1976 - SECT 51
Formal defects not to invalidate(1) No proceedings in the Court are invalidated by a formal defect or an irregularity, unless the Court is of opinion that substantial injustice has been caused by the defect or irregularity and that the injustice cannot be remedied by an order of the Court.
(2) The Court or a Judge may, on such conditions (if any) as the
Court or Judge thinks fit, make an order declaring that the proceeding is not
invalid by reason of a defect that it or he or she considers to be formal, or
by reason of an irregularity.