Falk v Finlay [1999] NSWSC 1284

New South Wales Supreme Court CITATION : Falk v Finlay [1999] NSWSC 1284 CURRENT JURISDICTION : Equity FILE NUMBER(S) : 4482/96 HEARING DATE(S) : 12, 13, 14, & 16 October, 4, 8, 9, 11 & 15 December 1998 JUDGMENT DATE : 24 December 1999

PARTIES : Michael Falk (P) Ronald Arthur Finlay, Edward Bertram Cowpe, Francis Reginald Lawson, John Gregory McCombe, Roderick Hamilton McGeoch, Allan John Macdonald, Frederick John Kehoe, Richard Kay Liebmann, Paul Richard McCann, Alexander John Munton, Geoffrey Hungerford Pike, Andrew Lee Price, Anthony John Sheehan, Peter William Damian Smith, Andrew Wentworth Stevenson, Stuart David Westgarth, Patrick Bill Williams, Jennifer Margaret Boland, Carmen Champion, Charles Macquarie Cowper, Graeme John Dennis, Michael John Ellis, Julian Maxwell Gregory, John Henry Herron, William John Koeck, Paul Harry Huges, Andrew John Lumsden, Peter Thomas Pether, Erica Jane Robinson, Stephen Price (Ds) JUDGMENT OF : Austin J

COUNSEL : D L Williams (P) B C Oslington QC and D Pritchard (D) SOLICITORS : Abbott Tout (P) Holman Webb (D) CATCHWORDS : PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE - discovery - whether relevance limits scope of Court's orders for specific discovery - whether affidavit of discovery is conclusive - inadequacy of discovery British Association of Glass Bottle Manufacturers Ltd v Nettlefold [1912] 1 KB 369 Commonwealth of Australia v Northern Land Council (1991) 103 ALR 267 Compagnie Financiere et Commerciale du Pacifique v Peruvian Guano Company (1882) 11 QBD 55 Donaldson v Harris (1993) 4 SASR 299 CASES CITED : Ferguson v Mackaness Produce Pty Ltd [1970] 2 NSWR 66 Fruehauf Finance Corporation Pty Ltd v Zurich Australian Insurance Ltd (1990) 20 NSWLR 359 Jones v Monte Video Gas Co (1880) 5 QBD 556 Lyell v Kennedy (No.3) (1884) 27 ChD 1 Mulley v Manifold (1959) 103 CLR 341 Telstra Corp v Australis Media Holdings Pty Ltd (Supreme Court of New South Wales, 10 February 1997, unreported) DECISION : Application for further discovery and other orders succeeds