Wayne Sales-Cini v Wyong City Council & Anor [2009] NSWLEC 1388

Land and Environment Court of New South Wales

CITATION : Wayne Sales-Cini v Wyong City Council & Anor [2009] NSWLEC 1388 This decision has been amended. Please see the end of the judgment for a list of the amendments.

APPLICANT Wayne Sales-Cini

PARTIES : FIRST RESPONDENT Wyong City Council

SECOND RESPONDENT Threshold Developments Pty Ltd

FILE NUMBER(S) : 40337 of 2009

CORAM: Acting Registrar Gray

KEY ISSUES: COSTS :- Security for Costs - judicial review of approval for residential subdivision - inability of applicant to meet an adverse costs order - whether proceedings are an abuse of process - whether order for security for costs should be made.

Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 s 79C, 123 LEGISLATION CITED: Land and Environment Court Rules 2007 r 4.2. National Parks and Wildlife Act 1974 s 86, 90, 176A Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 2005 Pt 42

Carriage v Stockland (Constructors) Pty Ltd (No 2) (2002) 123 LGERA 214; [2002] NSWLEC 217 Diamond & Anor v Birdon Contracting Pty Limited & Anor [2007] NSWLEC 92 KP Cable Investments Pty Limited v Meltglow Pty Ltd (1995) 56 FCR 189 CASES CITED: Rajski v Computer Manufacture and Design Pty Ltd [1983] 2 NSWLR 122 Melville v Craig Nowlan & Associates Pty Ltd (2002) 54 NSWLR 82 Sharples v Minister for Local Government & Ors [2008] NSWLEC 67; (2008) 159 LGERA 391 Williams v Pardoe (2003) 123 LGERA 214; [2003] NSWLEC 363