Queensboro Pty Limited v Butler Pollnow Pty Limited [1999] NSWSC 700

New South Wales Supreme Court CITATION : Queensboro Pty Limited v Butler Pollnow Pty Limited [1999] NSWSC 700 CURRENT JURISDICTION : Equity Division FILE NUMBER(S) : 3237/87 HEARING DATE(S) : 3, 7 May 1999 JUDGMENT DATE : 13 July 1999

Queensboro Pty Limited (P) Butler Pollnow Pty Limited (D1) Butler Pollnow Financial Services Pty Limited (D2) Errol Pollnow (D3) Richard Butler (D4) Butler Pollnow Pty Limited (Cr-Cl 1) Errol Pollnow (Cr-Cl 2) Queensboro Pty Limited (Cr-D 1) Garden Mews St Leonards Pty Limited (Cr-D 2) PARTIES : Bay Road Properties (Cr-D 3) Lake Village Apartments Pty Limited (Cr-D 4) Rosalind Gardens Pty Limited (Cr-D 5) Bydown Gardens (Cr-D 6) Ash Street Properties (Cr-D 7) Alexander Barclay Shand (Cr-D 8) Allan Gordon Coogan (Cr-D 9) Alan Ivor Terrell (Cr-D 10) Warren Walter Madgwick (Cr-D 11) Anthony Gardiner Sherlock (Cr-D 12) Paul Dean Ramsbottom Isherwood (Cr-D 13) JUDGMENT OF : Master McLaughlin

COUNSEL : Mr. M. L. D. Einfeld, QC, and Mr. A. C. Henderson (P) Mr. D. Heydon, QC, and Mr. M. Leeming (D) SOLICITORS : Solomon Garland Partners (P) Smits Leslie (D) CATCHWORDS : Summary judgment; Res Judicata; Estoppel by convention; Waiver; Proceedings in Local Court; Abandonment of excess; Cross-claim in Local Court; Proceedings in Local Court compromised by deed and consent orders; Effect of deed; Dismissal of cross-claim in Local Court; Whether such dismissal constitutes a judgment of the Local Court; Plea in bar. Local Court (Civil Claims) Act 1970 ACTS CITED : Local Court (Civil Claims) Rules 1988 District Court Act 1973 General Steel Industries Inc. v Commissioner for Railways (1964) 112 CLR 125 Gray v Furber (23 May 1995, Dunford J, unreported) Chamberlain v Deputy Commissioner for Taxation (1988) 164 CLR 502 Port of Melbourne Authority v Anshun Pty Limited (1981) 147 CLR 589 Segur v Franklin (1934) 51 WN (NSW) 31 Amalgamated Investment & Property Co v Texas Commerce International Bank Limited [1982] 1 QB 84 CASES CITED : Legione v Hately (1983) 152 CLR 406 Lee v Furno Holdings Pty Limited (1993) 33 NSWLR 404 Commonwealth of Australia v Newcrest Mining (WA) Limited (1995) 130 ALR 193 Commonwealth of Australia v Verwayen (1990) 170 CLR 394 Craine v Colonial Mutual Fire Insurance Company Limited (1920) 28 CLR 305 Presmist Pty Limited v Turner Corporation Pty Limited (1992) 30 NSWLR 478 Republic of India v India Steamship Co Ltd [1993] AC 410 DECISION : 1. I order that the proceedings be dismissed as against the first and third defendants.; 2. I order that the plaintiff pay the costs of the first and third defendants of the notice of motion filed by the first and third defendants on 25 November 1998 and of the proceedings after 3 December 1993 (the costs of the notice of motion to include only one day of hearing), and that otherwise there be no order as to costs in the proceedings by the plaintiff against those defendants.