Nature’s Care Holdings Pty Ltd v Chen (No 6) [2024] NSWSC 604

Supreme Court New South Wales

Medium Neutral Citation: Nature's Care Holdings Pty Ltd v Chen (No 6) [2024] NSWSC 604 Hearing dates: On the papers Date of orders: 20 May 2024 Decision date: 20 May 2024 Jurisdiction: Equity - Commercial List Before: Stevenson J Decision: Costs of the first, second and third defendants of and incidental to the plaintiffs' application for interlocutory orders, and costs of the third defendant of and incidental to the plaintiffs' application to set aside the third defendant's notice to produce to court, be paid by the plaintiff and third parties jointly and severally; third parties pay the costs of the defendants of the defendants' notices of motion Catchwords: COSTS – third party costs order – where third party costs order made – where dispute as to scope of that third party costs order Cases Cited: Chen v Nature's Care Holdings Pty Ltd [2024] NSWSC 36 Nature's Care Holdings Pty Ltd v Chen (No 2) [2024] NSWSC 107 Nature's Care Holdings Pty Ltd v Chen (No 3) [2024] NSWSC 245 Nature's Care Holdings Pty Ltd v Chen (No 4) [2024] NSWSC 379 Nature's Care Holdings Pty Ltd v Chen (No 5) [2024] NSWSC 533 Category: Costs Parties: Nature's Care Holdings Pty Limited (First Plaintiff) Nature's Care Group Pty Limited (receivers appointed) (Second Plaintiff) AJ & Son Investment Pty Limited (receivers appointed) (Third Plaintiff) Nature's Care Manufacture Pty Limited (Fourth Plaintiff) Nature's Care Global Franchising Pty Limited (Fifth Plaintiff) Australia Nature's Care Biotech Co. Ltd (Sixth Plaintiff) Jina Chen (First Defendant) Michael Wu (Second Defendant) AS Investment Vehicle Pty Limited (Third Defendant) JIC Nature Capital Pte Ltd (First Respondent) Tamar Alliance Health Ltd (Second Respondent) Representation: Counsel: A Horvath SC / P Afshar / R Jameson (First and Second Defendants)