Brown, D.A. & Ors v Forest Hill Shopping Centre Pty Ltd & Ors [1995] FCA 614

CATCHWORDS PRACTICE - Pleadings - Striking out - No triable issue - No arguable claim - Claim untenable - Whether different tests Dey v. Victorian Railways Commissioners (1949) 78 CLR 62 General Steel Industries Inc v. Commissioner for Railways (NSW) (1964) 112 CLR 125 DAVID ARTHUR BROWN, ELIZABETH JOAN BROWN, STEVEN BRIAN MURPHY and ANNE FRASER MURPHY v FOREST HILL SHOPPING CENTRE PTY LTD, L C STEVENSON ESTATES PTY LTD, HUGH McMASTER and DIANE McMASTER; FOREST HILL SHOPPING CENTRE PTY LTD v DAVID ARTHUR BROWN, ELIZABETH JOAN BROWN, STEVEN BRIAN MURPHY and ANNE FRASER MURPHY VG 99 of 1994 COURT: Sundberg J PLACE: Melbourne DATE: 11 August 1995

IN THE FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA ) VICTORIA DISTRICT REGISTRY ) No VG 99 of 1994 GENERAL DIVISION ) BETWEEN: DAVID ARTHUR BROWN, ELIZABETH JOAN BROWN, STEVEN BRIAN MURPHY and ANNE FRASER MURPHY Applicants AND: FOREST HILL SHOPPING CENTRE PTY LTD, L C STEVENSON ESTATES PTY LTD, HUGH McMASTER and DIANE McMASTER Respondents AND BETWEEN: FOREST HILL SHOPPING CENTRE PTY LTD Cross-Claimant AND: DAVID ARTHUR BROWN, ELIZABETH JOAN BROWN, STEVEN BRIAN MURPHY and ANNE FRASER MURPHY Cross-Respondents COURT: Sundberg J DATE: 11 August 1995 PLACE: Melbourne MINUTES OF ORDER The Court orders that: 1. Paragraphs 5A, 5B, 5C and 5E of the Applicants' Fourth Amended Statement of Claim filed 18 August 1994 be struck out.