Commonwealth Bank -v- MacDonald [2000] NSWSC 791

New South Wales Supreme Court

CITATION : Commonwealth Bank -v- MacDonald [2000] NSWSC 791 CURRENT JURISDICTION: Equity Division Commercial List FILE NUMBER(S) : SC 50053/00; 50055/00 HEARING DATE(S) : 14.7.00, 20.7.00 JUDGMENT DATE : 10 August 2000

PARTIES : Commonwealth Bank of Australia -v- Ian Harley MacDonald & Helen Elizabeth MacDonald JUDGMENT OF : Hunter J

COUNSEL : Plaintiff: R G Forster SC & R S Hollo First and Second Defendants: M J Watts SOLICITORS : Plaintiff: Abbott Tout Second Defendant: Searle & Associates CATCHWORDS : Practice and procedure - default judgment - variation of judgment - enforcement of covenant for vacant possession - appropriateness of writ for possession of company title unit - s 19 Supreme Court Act 1970 - Pt 42 r 4 Supreme Court Rules - whether right of occupation of company title unit vested in registered holder of shares over trustee in bankruptcy of registered holder's estate - s 58 Bankruptcy Act 1966 (Cth) - whether right of occupation vested in registered holder over chargee of shares. Bankruptcy Act 1966 (Cth) LEGISLATION CITED : Contracts Review Act 1980 (NSW) Conveyancing Act 1919 (NSW) Supreme Court Act 1970 (NSW) Brimaud -v- Honeysett Instant Print Pty Ltd (Unreported 19 September 1998) Danzey and Others -v- Nevada Pty Ltd (Unreported 22 May 1997) CASES CITED : Douglass -v- Gillman (1990) 19 NSWLR 570 Garcia -v- National Australia Bank Ltd (1998) 194 CLR 395 Yerkey -v- Jones (1939) 63 CLR 649 DECISION : Default judgments for possession to be varied by discharge and further orders for delivery of possession of subject premises and otherwise by orders in accordance with prior default judgments. Plaintiff to bring in short minutes of orders to give effect to reasons for judgment.