McMillan v Coolah Home Base [2020] NSWSC 935

Supreme Court New South Wales

Medium Neutral Citation: McMillan v Coolah Home Base [2020] NSWSC 935 Hearing dates: 3 and 10 July 2020 Date of orders: 23 July 2020 Decision date: 23 July 2020 Jurisdiction: Equity Before: Ward CJ in Eq Decision: 1. Strike out the amended statement of claim as against the fifth and sixth defendants. 2. Direct the plaintiffs to serve on the parties by no later than 13 August 2020 any further amended statement of claim on which they seek to rely as against the fifth and sixth defendants. 3. Note that the liberty to serve the further amended statement of claim referred to in Order 2, as against the fifth and sixth defendants, does not extend to: (a) any claim of a contravention by the fifth and sixth defendants of s 420A of the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth); and (b) any claim of contravention(s) by the fifth and sixth defendants of the company constitution of the first defendant. 4. Order that, failing consent of the fifth and sixth defendants by 20 August 2020 to the filing of the proposed further amended pleading served pursuant to Order 2, direct the plaintiffs to file and serve on or before 3 September 2020 a notice of motion and affidavit in support seeking leave further to amend their pleading, such motion to be returnable before me for directions at 8.30am on 8 September 2020. 5. Reserve costs of the fifth and sixth defendants' notice of motion. 6. List the matter generally for directions at 8.30am on 8 September 2020. 7. Liberty to apply on three days' notice. Catchwords: CIVIL PROCEDURE — Pleadings — Form and content of pleading — Defects — Striking out — Whether no reasonable cause of action or defence CIVIL PROCEDURE — Summary disposal — Dismissal of proceedings — Whether no reasonable cause of action disclosed Legislation Cited: Australian Securities and Investments Commission Act 2001 (Cth), ss 12CB, 12DA, 12FG, 12GM Civil Procedure Act 2005 (NSW), s 56(1) Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth), Sch 2, ss 4, 18, 21, 30, 50, 236, 237 Corporations Act 2001 (Cth), ss 180, 181, 182, 183, 232, 236, 247A, 420A, 438D, 442C(1)(b), 444G, 1041H, 1324, Pts 5.2, 5.3A, 9.5, Sch 2 s 90-15 Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 2005 (NSW), rr 13.4, 14.28 Cases Cited: Agar v Hyde (2000) 201 CLR 552; [2000] HCA 41 Barnes v Addy (1874) LR 9 Ch App 244 Baumgartner v Baumgartner (1987) 164 CLR 137; [1987] HCA 59 Brand v Monks [2009] NSWSC 1454 Brunninghausen v Glavanics (1999) 46 NSWLR 538; [1999] NSWCA 199 Burbank Trading Pty Ltd v Allmere Pty Ltd (2009) 22 VR 633; [2009] VSCA 82 Consolaro v Consolaro [2009] WASC 240 Cox v Journeaux (No 2) (1935) 52 CLR 713; [1935] HCA 48 Crawley v Short [2009] NSWCA 410 Dougall v Melville [2017] NSWCA 309 Energy & Resource Conservation Co Ltd (in liq) v Abigroup Contractors Pty Ltd (1997) 41 NSWLR 169 Expo International Pty Ltd (in liq) v Chant [1979] 2 NSWLR 820 Farah Constructions Pty Ltd v Say-Dee Pty Ltd (2007) 230 CLR 89; [2007] HCA 22 General Steel Industries Inc v Commissioner for Railways (NSW) (1964) 112 CLR 125; [1964] HCA 69 Gissing v Gissing [1971] AC 886; [1970] 2 All ER 780 Giumelli v Giumelli (1999) 196 CLR 101; [1999] HCA 10 Harris v Harris [2020] VSC 256 Hausmann v Smith [2006] NSWSC 682; (2006) 24 ACLC 688 Hospital Products Ltd v United States Surgical Corp (1984) 156 CLR 41; [1984] HCA 64 In re Charnley Davies Ltd (No 2) [1990] BCLC 760; [1990] BCC 605 MYT Engineering Pty Ltd v Mulcon Pty Ltd (1999) 195 CLR 636; [1999] HCA 24 O'Brien v Bank of Western Australia Ltd [2013] NSWCA 71 Re Australasian Barrister Chambers Pty Ltd (In Liq) [2017] NSWSC 597 Re Colorado Products Pty Ltd (in prov liq) [2013] NSWSC 1613 Re Smith in his capacity as administrator of Berowra RSL Bowling and Community Club Ltd [2006] NSWSC 780; (2006) 58 ACSR 410 Re Spargold Enterprises Pty Ltd; Ex parte McDonald [1999] NSWSC 623; (1999) 32 ACSR 363 Shalhoub Holdings Pty Ltd v Commonwealth Bank of Australia [2006] NSWSC 607 Shaw v New South Wales [2012] NSWCA 102; (2012) 219 IR 87 Smith v Australian Executor Trustees Ltd [2017] NSWSC 1406 Spencer v Commonwealth (2010) 241 CLR 118; [2010] HCA 28 THC Holding Pty Ltd v CMA Recycling Pty Ltd [2014] NSWSC 1136; (2014) 101 ACSR 202 The Owners - Strata Plan No 1731 v Bailey [2014] NSWSC 875 Tittman v Traill (1957) 74 WN (NSW) 284 Waltons Stores (Interstate) Ltd v Maher (1988) 164 CLR 387; [1988] HCA 7 Wickstead v Browne (1992) 30 NSWLR 1; [1992] NSWCA 272 Wilson v Meudon Pty Ltd [2005] NSWCA 448 Category: Procedural and other rulings Parties: Cameron Hamish Gray (First Applicant) Ronald Dean-Willcocks (Second Applicant) Geoffrey Ian McMillan (First Respondent) David Arthur Darch (Second Respondent) Helen Dawn Waugh (Third Respondent) Margaret Joy Vale (Fourth Respondent) Jill Cook (Fifth Respondent) Lee Marilyn Tait (Sixth Respondent) Representation: Counsel: D Krochmalik (Applicants/Fifth and Sixth Defendants) P King (Respondents/Plaintiffs)