Chandrasekaran v Commonwealth of Australia [2021] NSWSC 1149

Supreme Court New South Wales

Medium Neutral Citation: Chandrasekaran v Commonwealth of Australia [2021] NSWSC 1149 Hearing dates: 26 August 2021 Date of orders: 9 September 2021 Decision date: 09 September 2021 Jurisdiction: Common Law Before: Lonergan J Decision: (1) The proceedings brought by the plaintiff against the first and second defendants are dismissed. (2) The plaintiff is to pay the defendants' costs of the proceedings. Catchwords: CIVIL PROCEDURE – summary disposal – application for claim to be summarily dismissed – frivolous and vexatious proceedings – no reasonable cause of action – abuse of process – where plaintiff had commenced similar proceedings in the Federal Court – where the effect of these proceedings is an attempt to re-agitate issues that failed in the Federal Court – where plaintiff seeks orders that cannot be made in this Court, including setting aside or "quashing" orders made in the Federal Court – where the Further Amended Summons does not disclose a cause of action against any defendant – where proceedings are otherwise an abuse of process Legislation Cited: Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 2005 (NSW), r 13.4 Court Suppression and Non-publication Orders Act 2010 (NSW), s 8 Cases Cited: Chandrasekaran v Commonwealth of Australia [2019] FCA 1169 Chandrasekaran v Commonwealth of Australia (No 3) [2020] FCA 1629 Chandrasekaran v Commonwealth [2021] FCA 481 Chandrasekaran, In the matter of an application for leave to issue or file [2021] HCA Trans 119 (4 August 2021) Chandrasekaran v Western Sydney Local Health District [2021] NSWSC 920 Haines v Australian Broadcasting Corporation (1995) 43 NSWLR 404; [1995] NSWSC 136 Maynes v Casey [2011] NSWCA 156 O'Brien v Bank of Western Australia Ltd [2013] NSWCA 71 PQ v Law Society of New South Wales (No 5) [2021] NSWSC 463 Regie Nationale des Usines Renault SA v Zhang (2002) 210 CLR 491; [2002] HCA 10 Spencer v Commonwealth of Australia (2010) 241 CLR 118; [2010] HCA 28 Tomlinson v Ramsey Food Processing Pty Ltd (2015) 256 CLR 507; [2015] HCA 28 UBS AG v Tyne (2018) 265 CLR 77; [2018] HCA 45 Walton v Gardiner (1993) 177 CLR 378; [1993] HCA 77 Wilkinson v Downton [1897] EWHC 1 (QB); [1897] 2 QB 57 Category: Procedural rulings Parties: Sujatha Chandrasekaran (Plaintiff) Commonwealth of Australia (First Defendant) Bruce Boman (Second Defendant) Representation: Counsel: S Chandrasekaran (Self-Represented) K Hooper (First Defendant) R Pietriche (Second Defendant)