Nyi Nyi Aung & Anor v Advantage Taxation & Accounting Solutions: Your Business Growth & Tax Experts Pty Ltd; Nyi Nyi Medical Pty Ltd v Advantage Taxation & Accounting Solutions: Your Business Growth & Tax Experts Pty Ltd [2024] NSWDC 127

District Court New South Wales

Medium Neutral Citation: Nyi Nyi Aung & Anor v Advantage Taxation & Accounting Solutions: Your Business Growth & Tax Experts Pty Ltd; Nyi Nyi Medical Pty Ltd v Advantage Taxation & Accounting Solutions: Your Business Growth & Tax Experts Pty Ltd [2024] NSWDC 127 Hearing dates: 17 April 2024 Date of orders: 19 April 2024 Decision date: 19 April 2024 Jurisdiction: Civil Before: Abadee DCJ Decision: See paragraphs [129]-[130] Catchwords: APPEALS – claim for unpaid invoices by accountancy practice against former corporate and personal clients – appeal from decision of Small Claims Division of the Local Court of New South Wales – attempt to rely upon fresh evidence – whether the Court's jurisdiction to hear appeal enlivened – whether clients' complaints, individually or in combination, constitute complaints about a denial of procedural fairness Legislation Cited: Civil Procedure Act 2005 (NSW), s 98 Local Court Act 2007 (NSW), ss 29, 29A, 30, 35, 38, 39 Local Court Rules 2009 (NSW) Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 2005 (NSW) Cases Cited: Craig v South Australia (1994) 184 CLR 163 Ejueyitsi v Thomas & Anor [2022] NSWDC 490 Hungerford v Cantor [2020] NSWDC 326 McClymont v The Owners-Strata Plan No. 12139 (2009) 74 NSWLR 404 Mohareb v State of New South Wales (No.2) [2024] NSWCA 69 Nominal Defendant v Saleh (2011) 57 MVR 412 Preston v Commissioner for Fair Trading (2011) 80 NSWLR 359 Saqa v Bainvalu [2005] NSWSC 1091 Stojanovski v Parevski [2004] NSWSC 1144 Texts Cited: Peter Taylor SC et al, Ritchie's Uniform Civil Procedure (NSW) (2005, LexisNexis Butterworths) Category: Principal judgment Parties: Dr Nyi Nyi Aung (First Plaintiff of 2023/429238) Dr Julie Aung (Second Plaintiff of 2023/429238) Nyi Nyi Medical Pty Ltd (Plaintiff of 2023/429214) Advantage Taxation & Accounting Solutions: Your Business Growth & Tax Experts Pty Ltd (Defendant of 2023/429238 and 2023/429214) Representation: All parties self-represented File Number(s): 2023/429238; 2023/429214 Publication restriction: Nil Decision under appeal Court or tribunal: Local Court of New South Wales Jurisdiction: Small Claims Division Citation: Unpublished Date of Decision: 07 November 2023 Before: Assessor Connelly File Number(s): 2023/102136; 2023/105000