Matter
Coady v Yachting Victoria Inc
Coady’s sailing dispute with Yachting Victoria, with Victorian tribunal proceedings concerning consumer claims, foreign arbitral rulings and jurisdiction.
Procedural record
- 10 December 2014Arbitration
10 December 2014Arbitration
Report of the International Jury
- Decision summary
- The International Jury's protest decision scored boat AUS109 disqualified in races 4, 5 and 6; the subsequent misconduct process excluded the boat and disregarded its scores for the regatta.
Participants
Paul Coady
Institution
- Institutional administrator
- World Sailing International Jury
2 years and 16 days later · 747 days
- 26 December 2016Arbitration
26 December 2016Arbitration
World Sailing Review Board decision
- Decision summary
- The World Sailing Review Board decided the appeal from the sailing disciplinary process; the subsequent Court of Arbitration for Sport appeal was dismissed.
Participants
Paul Coady
Institution
- Institutional administrator
- World Sailing Review Board
1 year, 7 months and 21 days later · 598 days
- 16 August 2018Arbitration
16 August 2018Arbitration
Paul Coady v World Sailing and Yachting Victoria
- Decision summary
- The Court of Arbitration for Sport dismissed Paul Coady's appeal from the World Sailing Review Board decision.
Participants
Paul Coady
World Sailing
Yachting Victoria Inc
Institution
- Institutional administrator
- Court of Arbitration for Sport
6 years, 8 months and 28 days later · 2463 days
- 14 May 2025Arbitration
14 May 2025Arbitration
Order of the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal in C6767/2020 dated 14 May 2025
- Decision summary
- The Tribunal struck out the proceeding under section 77(1) of the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal Act 1998 (Vic) for want of jurisdiction arising from federal jurisdiction. Paul Coady was given 45 days to seek referral to a Victorian court with federal jurisdiction; absent such an application, the case file was to be closed.
Participants
Paul Coady
Yachting Victoria Inc
- Representative
- C O’Neill (For: Yachting Victoria Inc)
- Representative
- Macpherson Kelley (For: Yachting Victoria Inc)
- Representative
- N Verbeek (For: Yachting Victoria Inc)
Other
- Judge
- R Wilson
- 14 May 2025Australia
14 May 2025Australia
Jurisdictional ruling of the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal in C6767/2020 dated 14 May 2025
Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal
- Citation
- Coady v Yachting Victoria Inc (Civil Claims) [2025] VCAT 427
- Decision summary
- The Tribunal held that the civil proceeding, which challenged the 2014 Sail Melbourne regatta arrangements and related arbitral processes, raised a matter under Commonwealth law and therefore fell within federal jurisdiction. VCAT lacked jurisdiction to hear it and struck out the proceeding under section 77(1) of the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal Act 1998 (Vic), granting liberty to seek referral to a Victorian court under section 77(3).
Participants
Paul Coady
Yachting Victoria Inc
- Representative
- C O’Neill (For: Yachting Victoria Inc)
- Representative
- Macpherson Kelley (For: Yachting Victoria Inc)
- Representative
- N Verbeek (For: Yachting Victoria Inc)
- Representative
- Anthony Gooch (For: Yachting Victoria Inc)
Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal
- Judge
- R Wilson
Other
- Witness
- Iliria Coady
- Witness
- Turnbull
- Witness
- Papantonio
- Witness
- Bell
- Date not availableArbitration
Date not availableArbitration
ISAF Disciplinary Commission panel decision
- Decision summary
- The ISAF disciplinary process addressed an alleged gross breach of good manners and sportsmanship arising from Mr Coady's conduct during and after the 9 December 2014 protest hearing and produced a disciplinary ruling.
Participants
Paul Coady
Institution
- Institutional administrator
- ISAF Disciplinary Commission panel