Van Der Velde v Ng [2011] FCA 594

FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA

Van Der Velde v Ng [2011] FCA 594 Citation: Van Der Velde v Ng [2011] FCA 594

Parties: TERRY VAN DER VELDE AND DAVID STIMPSON and RIBY PTY LTD (ACN 081 153 219) IN LIQUIDATION AS TRUSTEE FOR THE JADE TRUST v KYM HON YOKE NG, THE OFFICIAL TRUSTEE AS TRUSTEE OF THE PROPERTY OF ROSS HASTINGS (A BANKRUPT) and RAMS MORTGAGE CORPORATION LIMITED ABN 48 065 912 932

File number(s): QUD 405 of 2007

Judge: GREENWOOD J

Date of judgment: 1 June 2011, as to the second separate question awaiting the decision of the Full Court in Ng v Van Der Velde [2011] FCAFC 35 published on 15 March 2011 arising out of judgment on the first separate question delivered on 22 December 2009

Catchwords: PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE – consideration of a separate question of the basis upon which an order for costs might be made on the application of the third respondent – consideration of whether the costs of the proceedings incurred by the third respondent fall within the notion of "enforcement expenses" for the purposes of clause 20 of the mortgage entered into between the first respondent and the third respondent – consideration of the principles to be applied in determining the basis upon which a mortgagee ought to have its costs as against the mortgagor of the proceedings having regard to the terms of the mortgage itself

Cases cited: Van Der Velde v Ng (No. 3) [2009] FCA 1563 Ng v Van Der Velde [2011] FCAFC 35 Queensland Premier Mines Pty Ltd v French (2007) 235 CLR 81 Australian Deposit and Mortgage Bank v Lord (1876) 2 VLR (L) 31 In Re Burton; Ex parte The Union Bank of Australia Ltd (1901) 27 VLR 437 Hall v Hubbard [1931] VLR 197 McDonald v Gardiner [1933] VLR 129 Consolidated Trust Co Ltd v Naylor (1936) 55 CLR 423 English, Scottish and Australia Bank Ltd v Phillips (1937) 57 CLR 302 Elders Trustee & Executor Company Ltd v EG Reeves Pty Ltd (1988) 20 FCR 164 Barker v Perpetual Trustees Australia Ltd & Anor (No. 2) [2003] SASC 275 Perpetual Trustees Australia Ltd & Ors v Barker [2004] SASC 58 Andar Transport Pty Ltd v Brambles Ltd (2004) 217 CLR 424 Liberty Funding Pty Ltd v SteeleSmith [2004] NSWSC 1100 ANZ Banking Group (NZ) Ltd v Gibson [1981] 2 NZLR 513 ANZ Banking Group (NZ) v Gibson (Court of Appeal) [1986] 1 NZLR 556 Abigroup Limited v Sandtara Pty Limited [2002] NSWCA 45 Citibank Savings Ltd v Nicholson & Ors; Citibank Savings Ltd v Pirrotta & Ors [1998] ANZ ConvR 442 Commonwealth Bank of Australia v Aspenview Productions [2001] VSC 499 Gomba Holdings (UK) Ltd v Monories Finance Ltd (No. 2) [1993] Ch 171 In re Shanahan (1941) 58 WN (NSW) 132 In re Adelphi Hotel (Brighton) Ltd [1953] 1 WLR 955 Reading Entertainment Australia Pty Ltd v Burstone Victoria Pty Ltd [2005] VSC 137