National Australia Bank Limited & 2 Ors v Idoport Pty Limited & 4 Ors [1999] NSWSC 964

New South Wales Supreme Court CITATION : National Australia Bank Limited & 2 Ors v Idoport Pty Limited & 4 Ors [1999] NSWSC 964 CURRENT JURISDICTION : Equity FILE NUMBER(S) : 3451/99 HEARING DATE(S) : 17/09/1999 JUDGMENT DATE : 17 September 1999

NATIONAL AUSTRALIA BANK LIMITED (ACN 004 044 937) (First Plaintiff) NATIONAL MARKETS GROUP LIMITED (ACN 071 105 149) (Second Plaintiff) AUSTRALIAN MARKET AUTOMATED QUOTATION (AUSMAQ) SYSTEM LIMITED (ACN 062 527 575) (Third Plaintiff)

PARTIES : IDOPORT PTY LIMITED (ACN 075 318 106) (First Defendant) MARKET HOLDINGS PTY LTD (ACN 003 665 441) (Second Defendant) JOHN MALCOLM MACONOCHIE (Third Defendant) JOHN FRANCIS WALKER (Fourth Defendant) JOHN JOSEPH JAMES GARNSEY (Fifth Defendant) JUDGMENT OF : Santow J

COUNSEL : P M Wood (Plaintiffs) B W Walker, M C L Dicker, R C Titterton (Defendants) SOLICITORS : Freehill Hollingdale & Page (Plaintiffs) Withnell Hetherington (Defendants) CATCHWORDS : INJUNCTIONS — Interim injunction to protect either legal professional privilege or confidential information — Requirements — Duty of candour — Meaning of materiality in requiring full disclosure on ex parte applications for interim relief — Illegitimate use by defendant of protected information in communicating with officers of plaintiffs. ACTS CITED : Evidence Act 1995 (NSW) s122(2) Coco v A N Clark (Engineers) Ltd [1969] RPC 41 Commonwealth v John Fairfax & Sons Ltd (1980) 147 CLR 30 Director of Public Prosecutions (Commonwealth) v Kane and Others (1997) 140 FLR 468 CASES CITED : Kavia Holdings Pty Limited v Werncog Pty Limited [1999] NSWSC 839 (Santow J, 18 August 1999, unreported) LAC Minerals Ltd v International Corona Resources Ltd (1989) 16 IPR 27 Marc Rich & Co Holdings GmbH v Krasner (UK Court of Appeal, 15 January 1999, unreported) Worldcom International v Home Communications (Timothy Walker J, 16 September 1998, unreported) DECISION : Interim injunction imposed