J & A Vaughan Super Pty Ltd (Trustee) v Becton Property Group Limited (No 2) [2014] FCA 705

FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA

J & A Vaughan Super Pty Ltd (Trustee) v Becton Property Group Limited (No 2) [2014] FCA 705 Citation: J & A Vaughan Super Pty Ltd (Trustee) v Becton Property Group Limited (No 2) [2014] FCA 705

Parties: J & A VAUGHAN SUPER PTY LTD (ACN 157 636 505) (IN ITS CAPACITY AS TRUSTEE OF THE J & A VAUGHAN SUPERANNUATION FUND) v BECTON PROPERTY GROUP LIMITED (ACN 095 067 771), HAMISH EOIN MACDONALD, MAXWELL JOHN BECK and MARK WOODCRAFT TAYLOR

File number: VID 1226 of 2013

Judge: PAGONE J

Date of judgment: 3 July 2014

Catchwords: COSTS – application for indemnity costs – where interlocutory application to strike out defective pleadings substantially successful – whether appropriate to order payment of entirety of costs to date – whether rejection of Calderbank offer unreasonable – whether appropriate to order payment of costs forthwith.

Legislation: Federal Court of Australia Act 1976 (Cth), s 43(2) Federal Court of Australia Rules 2011 (Cth), r 1.35

Cases cited: Allstate Life Insurance Co v ANZ Banking Group Ltd (No 14) [1995] FCA 1463 Black v Lipovac (1998) 217 ALR 386 Calderbank v Calderbank [1975] 3 All ER 333 Colgate-Palmolive Co v Cussons Pty Ltd (1993) 46 FCR 225 Hazeldene's Chicken Farm Pty Ltd v Victorian Workcover Authority (No 2) (2005) 13 VR 435 McKellar v Container Terminal Management Services Ltd [1999] FCA 1639 Orrcon Operations Pty Ltd v Capital Steel & Pipe Pty Ltd (No 2) [2008] FCA 24 Rafferty v Time 2000 West Pty Ltd (No 3) (2009) 257 ALR 503 Re Wilcox; Ex parte Venture Industries Pty Ltd (No 2) (1996) 72 FCR 151 Seven Network Ltd v News Ltd (2007) 244 ALR 374