Pascoe, M & Anor v National Futrax Pty Ltd & Ors [1995] FCA 952

CATCHWORDS COSTS - Interlocutory proceeding - no final determination - contrasting party and party basis and indemnity basis where no allegation or evidence against party Federal Court of Australia Act 1976 s 43 Federal Court Rules 1979 O 62 r 3 Trade Practices Act 1974 ss 52, 53, 75B Fair Trading Act (NSW) 1987 ss 42, 44, 61 Yorke v Lucas [1985] 158 CLR 661 ASC v Aust-Home Investments Limited [1993] 44 FCR 194 Colgate-Palmolive Company & Anor v Cussons Pty Ltd [1993] 46 FCR 225 J-Corp Pty Ltd v Australian Builders Labourers Federation Union of Workers Western Australian Branch & Anor (French J, unreported, 19 February 1993) Fountain Selected Meats (Sales) Pty Ltd v International Produce Merchants Pty Ltd [1988] 81 ALR 397 Sanchez v Smits and Leslie trading as Smits Leslie Barwick (Einfeld J, unreported, 13 April 1994) MICHAEL PASCOE & ANOR v NATIONAL FUTRAX PTY LTD & ORS No. G 93 OF 1995 EINFELD J SYDNEY 21 NOVEMBER 1995

IN THE FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA) NEW SOUTH WALES DISTRICT REGISTRY) No. G 93 of 1995 GENERAL DIVISION ) Between: MICHAEL PASCOE First Applicant NINE TELEVISION P/L ACN 008-685-407 Second Applicant And: NATIONAL FUTRAX P/L First Respondent EILEEN ROBINSON Second Respondent CARMEL MARGARET BROWN Third Respondent JAMIE PICKERING Fourth Respondent LARRY PICKERING Fifth Respondent KEVIN ROBINSON Sixth Respondent REASONS FOR JUDGMENT EINFELD J SYDNEY 21 NOVEMBER 1995 On 17 February 1995 the applicants presented an application and statement of claim alleging that the corporate respondent had breached sections 52, 53(c) and 53(d) of the Trade Practices Act (1974) (TPA) and the parallel sections in the Fair Trading Act (NSW) 1987 (FTA) in relation to an advertisement that had been placed in the Sydney Morning Herald on 15 February 1995. The applicants asserted that the individual respondents had aided and abetted the corporate respondent in placing the advertisement and