NSW Caselaw
Reported Decision : (2006) 146 LGERA 1
Land and Environment Court of New South Wales
CITATION : Clayton Jacobson and Lee Anne McMillan v Ballina Shire Council [2006] NSWLEC 111
APPLICANTS Clayton Jacobson and Lee Anne McMillan PARTIES : RESPONDENT Ballina Shire Council
FILE NUMBER(S) : 21462 of 2004
CORAM: Jagot J
KEY ISSUES: Practice and Procedure :- Inspection of documents produced under subpoena by solicitor; waiver of legal professional privilege imputed by law; issue waiver - where instructions to solicitor are a relevant issue in dispute; communications or disclosure waiver - where party claiming privilege makes partial disclosure of communications with solicitor
Evidence Act 1995 s 8, s 122 LEGISLATION CITED: Land and Environment Court Act 1979 s 38 Local Government Act 1993 s 124, s 180
Attorney-General for the Northern Territory v Maurice and Others (1986) 161 CLR 475; Ampolex Ltd v Perpetual Trustee Co (Canberra) Ltd and Others (1995) 37 NSWLR 405; Australian Securities and Investments Commission v Rich [2004] NSWSC 923; Baker v Campbell (1983) 153 CLR 52; Benecke v National Australia Bank (1993) 35 NSWLR 110; Chen & Ors v City Convenience Leasing Pty Ltd & Anor [2005] NSWCA 297; DSE (Holdings) Pty Ltd v Intertan Inc & Another (2003) 127 FCR 499; Fort Dodge Australia Pty Ltd v Nature Vet Pty Limited [2002] FCA 501; Goldberg and Another v Ng and Others (1995) 185 CLR 83; CASES CITED: Great Atlantic Insurance v Home Insurance [1981] 1 WLR 529; Mann v Carnell (1999) 201 CLR 1; Moreay Nominees Pty Ltd v McCarthy (1994) 10 WAR 293; Nea Karteria Maritime Co Ltd v Atlantic & Great Lakes Steamship Corp (No 2) [1981] Com LR 138; Richards v Kadian [2005] NSWCA 328; Seven Network Ltd v News Ltd (No 10) [2005] FCA 1721; Telstra Corporation Ltd & Another v BT Australasia Pty Ltd & Another (1998) 85 FCR 152; Thomason v The Council of the Municipality of Campbelltown (1939) 39 SR (NSW) 347; United States Surgical Corporation v Hospital Products International Pty Ltd (McLelland J, NSWSC, 13 October 1981, unreported); Wayne Lawrence Pty Limited v Hunt & Ors t/a Hunt Musgrave & Peach [1999] NSWSC 1044
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