Marino (a pseudonym) v Bello (a pseudonym) [2022] NSWCA 73

Court of Appeal Supreme Court New South Wales Medium Neutral Citation: Marino (a pseudonym) v Bello (a pseudonym) [2022] NSWCA 73 Hearing dates: 27 April 2022 Date of orders: 16 May 2022 Decision date: 16 May 2022 Before: Brereton JA at [1] Kirk JA at [10] Decision: (1) Extend time for filing and service of the applicant's notice of intention to appeal and summons seeking leave to appeal so as to permit the applicant to rely on those documents; (2) Grant leave to appeal as regards claims against the first and second respondents on the following proposed grounds in the draft notice of appeal: (a) ground 1; and (b) ground 5, limited as follows: "Breach of procedural fairness – the Court in refusing to grant leave to replead as against the first and second respondents under the circumstances denoted above or otherwise acted contrary to ss 56-59 of the Civil Procedure Act 2005 (NSW)"; (3) The application for leave to appeal is otherwise dismissed; (4) Applicant to pay the costs of the third to fifth and the sixth respondents to the application. Catchwords: APPEALS — Leave to appeal — question of principle — whether person who has instigated, if not formally commenced, legal proceedings liable for tort of abuse of process Legislation Cited: Civil Procedure Act 2005 (NSW), ss 64(3), 164(1) Crimes (Domestic and Personal Violence) Act 2007 (NSW), ss 25-28A Uniform Civil Procedure Rules rr 13.4, 14.28, 51.8, 51.9 Cases Cited: A v State of New South Wales (2007) 230 CLR 500; [2007] HCA 10 Beckett v New South Wales (2013) 248 CLR 432; [2013] HCA 17 Burton v Office of Director of Public Prosecutions (2019) 100 NSWLR 734; [2019] NSWCA 245 Commonwealth Life Assurance Society Ltd v Brain (1935) 53 CLR 343; [1935] HCA 30 Coshott v Commonwealth Bank of Australia [2020] NSWCA 279 Dickens v State of New South Wales (No 3) [2018] NSWSC 485 Ebner v Official Trustee in Bankruptcy (2000) 205 CLR 337; [2000] HCA 63 Emanuele v Hedley (1998) 179 FCR 290 Flower & Hart v White Industries (Qld) Pty Ltd (1999) 87 FCR 134; [1999] FCA 773 Fuller-Wilson v State of New South Wales [2018] NSWCA 218 General Steel Industries Inc v Commissioner for Railways (NSW) (1964) 112 CLR 125; [1964] HCA 69 Kable v New South Wales (2012) 293 ALR 719; [2012] NSWCA 243; Leerdam v Noori (2009) 255 ALR 553; [2009] NSWCA 90 Maxwell-Smith v S & E Hall Pty Ltd (2014) 86 NSWLR 481; [2014] NSWCA 146 Preston v Commissioner for Fair Trading (2011) 80 NSWLR 359; [2011] NSWCA 40 Spencer v Commonwealth of Australia (2010) 241 CLR 118; [2010] HCA 28 State of New South Wales v Kable (2013) 252 CLR 118; [2013] HCA 26 Trkulja v Google LLC (2018) 263 CLR 149; [2018] HCA 25 Varawa v Howard Smith Co Ltd (1911) 13 CLR 35; [1911] HCA 46 Wickstead v Browne (1992) 30 NSWLR 1 Zappia v Grant Baines Transport Pty Ltd (2010) 77 ACSR 273; [2010] NSWSC 98 Category: Principal judgment Parties: A Marino (a pseudonym) (applicant) B Bello (a pseudonym) (first respondent) C Bello (a pseudonym) (second respondent) Mark Rowlandson (third respondent) Victoria Rowlandson (fourth respondent) Colin Rowlandson (fifth respondent) State of New South Wales (sixth respondent) Representation: Counsel: B McManus (third to fifth respondents) R Coffey (sixth respondent)