REDKEN LABORATORIES (AUST) PTY LIMITED v DOCKER & ANOR [2000] NSWCA 100

Reported Decision : (2000) Aust Contract Reports 90-113

New South Wales Court of Appeal

CITATION : REDKEN LABORATORIES (AUST) PTY LIMITED v DOCKER & ANOR [2000] NSWCA 100 revised - 27/04/2007 FILE NUMBER(S) : CA 40752/98 HEARING DATE(S) : 13 April 2000 JUDGMENT DATE : 9 June 2000

Redken Laboratories (Aust) Pty Limited - Appellant PARTIES : Natasha Docker - Firest Respondent Achievement Concepts Pty Limited - Second Respondent JUDGMENT OF : Sheller JA at 1; Fitzgerald JA at 52; Davies AJA at 84

LOWER COURT JURISDICTION : Supreme Court - Common Law Division LOWER COURT 20797/96 FILE NUMBER(S) : LOWER COURT Hidden J JUDICIAL OFFICER :

PJ Deakin QC/A Ventura - Appellant COUNSEL : P Webb QC/D R Conti/DF Kell - First Respondent DJ Fagan SC/CM Simpson - Second Respondent Hickson Wisewoulds - Appellant SOLICITORS : McClellands - First Respondent Blake Dawson Waldron - Second Respondent CATCHWORDS : CONTRACTS - Construction and interpretation of contracts - Implied term of reasonable care in a contract of professional services - Damages for breach of implied term where breach causes injury to third party and third party claims damages in negligence from both parties to the contract - Indemnity - TORTS - Negligence - Co-tortfeasors - Where liability apportioned between co-tortfeasors and one tortfeasor claims indemnity from the other tortfeasor arising out of an implied contractual term - APPEAL - Points not taken at trial - Attempt to raise new issue on appeal - ND Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1946 LEGISLATION CITED : Supreme Court Act 1970 Workers Compensation Act 1987 Astley v Austrust Limited (1999) 73 ALJR 403 Buckley v Pre-Stressed Concrete (Australia) Pty Ltd (unreported) 20 September 1977, NSWCA Florida Hotels Pty Ltd v Mayo (1965) 113 CLR 588 Hawkins v Clayton (1988) 164 CLR 539 CASES CITED: Henderson v Merrett Syndicates Ltd [1995] 2 AC 145 Lexmead (Basingstoke) Ltd v Lewis [1982] AC 225 Medlin v State Government Insurance Commission (1995) 182 CLR 1 Mowbray v Merryweather [1895] 2 QB 640 Oxley County Council v Macdonald (unreported) 2 July 1999, NSWCA Sims v Foster Wheeler Ltd [1966] 1 WLR 769 DECISION : Appeals be stood over for mention before the Registrar on 19 June 2000 to be re-listed before the Court for argument in the form of the orders, the amount of damages and costs, unless order on the appeals are made by consent.