Muriniti -v- Lawcover Insurance Pty Limited – Stay Motion [2022] NSWSC 1683

Supreme Court New South Wales

Medium Neutral Citation: Muriniti -v- Lawcover Insurance Pty Limited – Stay Motion [2022] NSWSC 1683 Hearing dates: 7 December 2022 Decision date: 07 December 2022 Jurisdiction: Equity Before: Hammerschlag CJ in Eq Decision: Application for stay refused Catchwords: PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE – COSTS – Application to stay orders for costs after dismissal of proceedings pending resolution of fresh proceedings commenced by the plaintiffs on substantially the same causes of action or for substantially the same relief as the dismissed proceedings – HELD – Stay refused Legislation Cited: Civil Procedure Act 2005 (NSW) Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 2005 (NSW) Cases Cited: Muriniti v Lawcover Insurance Pty Ltd [2022] NSWCA 159 Muriniti v Lawcover Insurance Pty Ltd [2022] NSWSC 90 Muriniti v Lawcover Insurance Pty Limited [2022] NSWSC 1593 Category: Procedural rulings Parties: Plaintiffs: Leonardo Carlo Muriniti – First Plaintiff Robert Duane Newell – Second Plaintiff

Defendants: Lawcover Insurance Pty Limited ACN 095 082 509 – First Defendant Elissa Baxter – Second Defendant Suncorp AAI Limited ACN 005 297 807 – Third Defendant De Costi Seafoods (Holdings) Pty Limited ACN 064 186 410 – Fourth Defendant De Costi Seafoods (Franchises) Pty Limited ACN 103 324 812 – Fifth Defendant George Costi – Sixth Defendant Androulla Costi – Seventh Defendant Andrew Thorpe – Eighth Defendant Stephen Stanton – Ninth Defendant Michael Holmes – Tenth Defendant Juliana Ng – Eleventh Defendant David Shnider – Twelfth Defendant Deborah Searle – Thirteenth Defendant Philippe Doyle Gray – Fourteenth Defendant Louise Thomson – Fifteenth Defendant Bruce Yeldham – Sixteenth Defendant Mary Vitalone – Seventeenth Defendant David Lloyd – Eighteenth Defendant Wendy Blacker – Nineteenth Defendant Rory O'Connor – Twentieth Defendant Geoffrey Watson – Twenty-First Defendant Nicholas Andrew – Twenty-Second Defendant Frank Theodore – Twenty-Third Defendant Representation: Counsel: RD Newell (Solicitor) – Plaintiffs J Anderson – First, Second, Eighth, Eleventh Sixteenth and Seventeenth Defendants D Villa SC with D Tang – Third and Twenty-First Defendants D Robertson – Tenth Defendant G Jackson (Solicitor) – Thirteenth Defendant E Olivier – Fourteenth Defendant M Elliott SC – Eighteenth Defendant O Saxton (Solicitor) – Nineteenth and Twentieth Defendants