Run Corp Limited v McGrath Limited [2007] FCA 1669

FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA

Run Corp Limited v McGrath Limited [2007] FCA 1669 TRADE AND COMMERCE – restraint of trade by agreement – sale of business –not to be party to agreement 'which concerns or relates' to the business – construction – validity Restraints of Trade Act 1976 (NSW) s 4(1) Amoco Australia Pty Ltd v Rocca Bros Motor Engineering Co Pty Ltd (1973) 133 CLR 288 Austra Tanks Pty Ltd v Running [1982] 2 NSWLR 840 Australian Broadcasting Corporations v O'Neill (2006) 227 CLR 57 Australian Securities Commission v Lord (1991) 33 FCR 144 Buckley v Tutty (1971) 125 CLR 353 Commissioners of Inland Revenue v Maple & Co (Paris) Ltd [1908] 1 AC 22 Davies v Davies (1887) 36 Ch D 359 Fountain v Alexander (1982) 150 CLR 615 JQAT Pty Ltd v Storm [1987] 2 Qd R 162 Lindner v Murdock's Garage (1950) 83 CLR 628 Lloyd's Ships Holdings Pty Ltd v Davros Pty Ltd (1987) 17 FCR 505 Nordenfelt v Maxim Nordenfelt Guns and Ammunition Co Ltd [1894] AC 535 O'Grady v Northern Queensland Company Ltd (1990) 169 CLR 356 Orton v Melman [1981] 1 NSWLR 583 Peters Ice Cream Vic Ltd v Todd [1961] VR 485 PMT Partners Pty Ltd (in liq) v Australian National Parks and Wildlife Service (1995) 184 CLR 301 Project Blue Sky Inc v Australian Broadcasting Authority (1998) 194 CLR 355 State Transport Authority v Apex Quarries Ltd [1988] VR 187 RUN CORP LIMITED, RUN PROPERTY PTY LTD and RUN PROPERTY (MPM) PTY LTD v MCGRATH LIMITED, JOHN DAMIAN MCGRATH, MCGRATH SALES PTY LTD and MCGRATH AUSTRALASIA PTY LTD VID 872 of 2007

FINKELSTEIN J

2 NOVEMBER 2007

MELBOURNE IN THE FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA

VICTORIA DISTRICT REGISTRY VID 872 of 2007

BETWEEN: RUN CORP LIMITED,

RUN PROPERTY PTY LTD and

RUN PROPERTY (MPM) PTY LTD

Applicants

AND: MCGRATH LIMITED,

JOHN DAMIAN MCGRATH,