Waterwood Hotel Management Pty Ltd v KOP International Pty Ltd [2020] NSWSC 709

Supreme Court New South Wales

Medium Neutral Citation: Waterwood Hotel Management Pty Ltd v KOP International Pty Ltd [2020] NSWSC 709 Hearing dates: On the papers Date of orders: 10 June 2020 Decision date: 10 June 2020 Jurisdiction: Equity Before: Ward CJ in Eq Decision: 1. Order pursuant to r 20.24(1) that the report of Mr Richard Hugh Macready be adopted in whole. 2. Order the second defendant to pay the plaintiff the sum of $4,197.12 plus interest pursuant to s 100 of the Civil Procedure Act 2005 (NSW) calculated in accordance with the Court rules from the date of the payments comprising that amount to the date of judgment. 3. Order the plaintiff to pay the defendants' costs of the proceedings, including the costs of the reference hearing but excluding the cross-claim as to which order that there be no order as to costs. 4. Order that these proceedings be otherwise dismissed. Catchwords: CIVIL PROCEDURE — Alternative dispute resolution — Court referral to referee — Court's use of report —adoption and variation of referee's report Legislation Cited: Civil Procedure Act 2005 (NSW), s 100 Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth), Sch 2, ss 236, 237 or 243 Supreme Court Rules 1970 (NSW), Pt 72 r 13 Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 2005 (NSW), rr 20, 42.34, Pt 20, r 14 Cases Cited: A&M Green Investments Pty Ltd v Progressive Pod Properties Pty Ltd [2011] NSWSC 502 ABB Engineering Construction Pty Ltd v Abigroup Contractors Pty Ltd [2003] NSWSC 665 Actrol Parts Pty Ltd v Coppi (No 3) [2015] VSC 758 Anglo Cyprian Trade Agencies Ltd v Paphos Wine Industries Ltd [1951] 1 All ER 873 Arian v Nguyen [2001] NSWCA 5 BestCare Foods v Origin Energy [2012] NSWSC 574 Blair v Curran (1939) 62 CLR 464 Brenner v First Artists' Management Pty Ltd [1993] 2 VR 221 Cassegrain v Gerard Cassegrain & Co Pty Limited (2015) 254 CLR 425; [2015] HCA 2 Chocolate Factory Apartments Ltd v Westpoint Finance Pty Ltd [2005] NSWSC 784 Eko Investments Pty Ltd v Austruc Constructions Ltd [2009] NSWSC 208 Fountain Selected Meats (Sales) Pty Ltd v International Produce Merchants Ltd [1988] FCA 202; (1988) 81 ALR 397 Hansen t/as Derrawee Pastoral Company v Monterey (Coolah) Pty Limited [2012] NSWSC 1383 Harrington v Harrington Services Pty Ltd (in liq) (2002) 55 NSWLR 618; [2002] NSWSC 859 Harris v Morabito Holdings [2018] NSWSC 912 Hexiva Pty Ltd v Lederer (No 2) [2007] NSWSC 49 Hooker v Gilling (No 2) [2007] NSWSCA 214 Hungerfords v Walker (1989) 171 CLR 125; [1989] HCA 8 Illawarra Hotel Company Pty Ltd v Walton Construction Pty Ltd (2013) 84 NSWLR 410; [2013] NSWCA 6 Independent Grocers Co-operative Ltd v Noble Lowndes Superannuation Consultants Ltd (1993) 60 SASR 525 Kennedy v De Trafford [1897] AC 180 Lumbers v W Cook Builders Pty Ltd (in liq) (2008) 232 CLR 635; [2008] HCA 27 Mann v Paterson Constructions Pty Ltd [2019] HCA 32 Origin Energy LPG Ltd (formerly Boral Gas (NSW) Pty Ltd) v BestCare Foods Ltd [2013] NSWCA 90 Oshlack v Richmond River Council (1998) 193 CLR 72; [1998] HCA 11 Pavey & Matthews Pty Ltd v Paul (1987) 162 CLR 221; [1987] HCA 5 Progressive Pod Properties Pty Ltd v A & M Green Investments Pty Ltd [2012] NSWCA 225 Re Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs; Ex parte Lai Qin (1997) 186 CLR 622; [1997] HCA 6 Rozenblit v Vainer (No 2) [2019] VSC 366 South West Helicopters Pty Ltd v Stephenson (No 2) (2018) 98 NSWLR 96; [2018] NSWCA 99 South Yarra Project Pty Ltd v Gentsis [1985] VR 29 State of New South Wales v Quirk [2012] NSWCA 216 Super Pty Ltd v SJP Formwork (Australia) Pty Limited (1992) 29 NSWLR 549 Taxa Australia Pty Ltd v Wang [2018] NSWSC 1668 Valra Pty Ltd v Mag Men Holdings Pty Ltd (No 2) [2020] FCA 314 Waterwood Hotel Management Pty Ltd v KOP International Pty Ltd [2015] NSWSC 852 Waterwood Hotel Management Pty Ltd v KOP International Pty Ltd [2018] NSWSC 102 Texts Cited: Birks, Peter, "Equity in the Modern Law: An Exercise in Taxonomy" (1996) 26(July) University of Western Australia Law Review 1 Dietrich, Joachim, "What is 'Lawyering'? The Challenge of Taxonomy" (2006) 65(3) Cambridge Law Journal 549 Gray, John Chipman, "Some Definitions and Questions in Jurisprudence" (1892) 6 Harvard Law Review 21 Category: Procedural and other rulings Parties: Waterwood Hotel Management Pty Ltd (Plaintiff) KOP International Pty Limited (First Defendant) MOOT Hotel Management Pty Ltd (Second Defendant) Xiufeng Xu (Third Defendant) Representation: Counsel: S Burchett (Plaintiff) GA Sirtes SC (Defendants)