Drip World Pty Ltd v Dardy Touring Corp [2020] NSWSC 1772

Supreme Court New South Wales

Medium Neutral Citation: Drip World Pty Ltd v Dardy Touring Corp [2020] NSWSC 1772 Hearing dates: 03 December 2020 Date of orders: 09 December 2020 Decision date: 09 December 2020 Jurisdiction: Equity - Commercial List Before: Stevenson J Decision: Leave to amend refused; proceedings to be dismissed Catchwords: CIVIL PROCEDURE – service outside Australia – service in United States of America – application to set aside service CIVIL PROCEDURE – intervening application to amend process to substitute different plaintiff – whether proposed amendment futile because service of amended process would not be authorised by UCPR Legislation Cited: Civil Procedure Act 2005 (NSW) Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 2005 (NSW) Cases Cited: Agar v Hyde (2000) 201 CLR 552; [2000] HCA 41 Australian Competition and Consumer Commission v Yellow Page Marketing BV [2010] FCA 1218 McInnes v Wingecarribee Shire Council (1987) 10 NSWLR 660 News Corporation Ltd v Lenfest Communications Inc (1996) 21 ACSR 553 Texts Cited: M Davies, A Bell, P Brereton, M Douglas, Nygh's Conflicts of Laws in Australia (10th ed, 2020), LexisNexis Butterworths Category: Procedural and other rulings Parties: Drip World Pty Ltd (Plaintiff) Dardy Touring Corp (First Defendant) William Morris Endeavour Entertainment, LLC (Second Defendant) Representation: Counsel: D F Elliott (Plaintiff) D Sulan (Second Defendant)