National Australia Bank Limited v Mary Rose Salubre [2024] NSWSC 665

Supreme Court New South Wales

Medium Neutral Citation: National Australia Bank Limited v Mary Rose Salubre [2024] NSWSC 665 Hearing dates: 27 May 2024 Date of orders: 27 May 2024 Decision date: 27 May 2024 Jurisdiction: Common Law Before: Campbell J Decision: Dismiss prayer 1 of the defendant's amended notice of motion filed 18 March 2024 Catchwords: CIVIL PROCEDURE – default judgment – setting aside – re-ventilating interlocutory application regarding same relief – where defendant previously sought to set aside default judgment without success – where defendant now alleges ineffective personal service – where defendant has in any event been aware of default judgment since late 2022 – purpose of personal service – no arguable defence to claim for possession CIVIL PROCEDURE – cross-claims – right of set-off – defendant's proposed cross-claim insufficient to impeach the plaintiff's title to possession as mortgagee – intuitive unfairness insufficient to establish interconnectedness between respective claims to allow equitable set-off Legislation Cited: Civil Procedure Act 2005 (NSW), s 56 Cases Cited: Cameron Bankrupt v Cole Petitioning Creditor (1944) 68 CLR 571; [1944] HCA 5 Clack v Murray [2017] WASCA 88 Commonwealth Bank of Australia v MLD Financial Services & Management Pty Ltd [2015] NSWSC 1476 Dai v Zhu [2013] NSWCA 412 Inglis v Commonwealth Trading Bank of Australia (1972) 126 CLR 161 Liu v The Age Company Limited (2016) 92 NSWLR 679; [2016] NSWCA 115 Mao v Bao [2023] NSWCA 278 National Australia Bank Limited v Mary Rose Salubre [2023] NSWSC 319 Nominal Defendant v Manning (2000) 50 NSWLR 139; 2000 NSWCA 80 Smith v Shilkin (No 2) [2019] NSWSC 969 Westpac Banking Corporation v Corry [2011] NSWSC 1014 Young v Roads and Maritime Services (No 3) [2018] NSWCA 106 Category: Procedural rulings Parties: National Australia Bank Limited (Plaintiff) Mary Rose Salubre (Defendant) Representation: Counsel: M L Rose (Plaintiff) I G A Archibald (Defendant)