Lu v Minter (No 2) [2021] NSWDC 503

District Court New South Wales

Medium Neutral Citation: Lu v Minter (No 2) [2021] NSWDC 503 Hearing dates: 23 September 2021 Date of orders: 23 September 2021 Decision date: 23 September 2021 Jurisdiction: Civil Before: Gibson DCJ Decision: Order: (1) Plaintiff's application for leave under UCPR r 7.3 to issue two subpoenae to give evidence and five subpoenae to produce documents refused. Catchwords: TORT – defamation – defendants bring application for summary dismissal of the plaintiff's claim on the basis of hopeless pleading errors - self-represented plaintiff issues subpoenae to the defendants and third parties to give evidence and produce documents – leave under UCPR r 7.3 required for litigants in person to issue subpoenae – leave refused. Legislation Cited: Uniform Civil Procedure Rules (UCPR) rule 7.3 Civil Procedure Act 2005 (NSW) s 56 Cases Cited: Buswell v Carles [2012] WASC 509 Lu v Minter (District Court (NSW), 12 August 2021, unrep Mallegowda v Sood [2013] NSWDC 98 NSW Commissioner of Police v Tuxford [2002] NSWCA 139 Rush v Nationwide News Pty Ltd [2018] FCA 357 Walsh v Bennetts (No 2) [2015] WASC122 Category: Procedural rulings Parties: Plaintiff: Min Lu

Defendants: 1st Defendant: Rick Minter 2nd Defendant: Bronwyn Greene 3rd Defendant: Tara Murphy 4th Defendant: Felix Ter Chian Tan 5th Defendant: Lemuria Carter 6th Defendant: Paul Ajnas 7th Defendant: Yenni Tim Representation: Counsel: Defendants: Mr T Senior