Batterham v Goldberg [2023] NSWSC 721

Supreme Court New South Wales

Medium Neutral Citation: Batterham v Goldberg [2023] NSWSC 721 Hearing dates: 22 June 2023 Date of orders: 22 June 2023 Decision date: 27 June 2023 Jurisdiction: Common Law Before: Lonergan J Decision: Proceedings dismissed. For ancillary orders refer to par [36] of this judgment Catchwords: CIVIL PROCEDURE – summary disposal – application for claim to be summarily dismissed – frivolous and vexatious proceedings – no reasonable cause of action disclosed – abuse of process – attempt to re-agitate issues comprehensively and conclusively determined in the Federal Court – where those proceedings in the Federal Court were time-barred, barred as a result of res judicata and issue estoppel, disclosed no cause of action and where alleged loss and damage not caused by respondents – proceedings dismissed Legislation Cited: Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 2005 (NSW) Cases Cited: Batistatos v Roads and Traffic Authority of New South Wales (2006) 226 CLR 256; [2006] HCA 27 Batterham v Clayton Utz Partnership [2022] FCA 360 Batterham v Clayton Utz Partnership [2022] FCA 1435 Blair v Curran (1939) 62 CLR 464; [1939] HCA 23 Castillon v P & O Ports Ltd [2008] 2 Qd R 219; [2007] QCA 364; Chandrasekaran v Commonwealth of Australia [2021] NSWSC 1149 Coffey v Secretary, Department of Social Security (1999) 86 FCR 434; [1999] FCA 375 Crocker v Toys 'R' Us (Australia) Pty Ltd (No 3) [2015] FCA 728 Kanakaridis v Westpac Banking Corporation [2015] FCA 1146 O'Brien v Bank of Western Australia Ltd [2013] NSWCA 71 Pi v Zhou [2016] NSWCA 24 Pickering v Centrelink [2008] FCA 561 Rana v Commonwealth [2013] FCA 189 Spalla v St George Motor Finance Ltd (No 6) [2004] FCA 1699 State Bank of New South Wales Ltd v Stenhouse Ltd (1997) Aust Torts Reports 81-423 Category: Procedural rulings Parties: James Batterham (Plaintiff) (Self represented) Terrance Goldberg (First Defendant) Armando Gardiman (Second Defendant) Thady Blundell (Third Defendant) Representation: Counsel: A Smorchevsky (Defendants)