IMB Society Limited v White & Ors [2000] NSWSC 1085

New South Wales Supreme Court

CITATION : IMB Society Limited v White & Ors [2000] NSWSC 1085 FILE NUMBER(S) : SC 10736/1995 HEARING DATE(S) : 17/04/00, 18/04/00, 19/04/00, 20/04/00, 19/06/00 JUDGMENT DATE : 24 November 2000

Illawarra Mutual Building Society Limited - Plaintiff Margaret Lorraine White - Defendant Margaret Lorraine White - First Cross Claimant PARTIES : Illawarra Mutual Building Society Limited - First Cross Defendant Margaret Lorraine White - Second Cross Claimant Dennis Grogan, Lewis Webb - Second Cross Defendant Illawarra Mutual Building Society Limited - Third Cross Claimant Dennis Grogan, Lewis Webb - Third Cross Defendant JUDGMENT OF : Bell J at 1

DM Loewenstein - Plaintiff, First Cross Defendant and 3rd Cross Claimant COUNSEL : R D Wilson - Defendant, 1st and 2nd Cross Claimants G Inatey SC - 2nd and 3rd Cross Defendants Russell McLelland Brown - Plaintiff, First Cross Defendant and 3rd Cross Claimant SOLICITORS : AM Dickinson & Son - Defendant, 1st and 2nd Cross Claimants Colin Biggers & Paisley - 2nd and 3rd Cross Defendants CATCHWORDS : Claim for possession - cross claim against lender seeking relief pursuant to Contracts Review Act - cross claim against solicitors - breach of retainer, negligence and breach of fiduciary duty (no informed consent to double employment and non-disclosure of material facts). LEGISLATION CITED : Contracts Review Act, 1980 Real Property Act, 1900 Goldsborough v Ford Credits (unreported) NSWSC, Young J, 10.11.89; Teachers Health Investments Pty Ltd v Wynne (1996) ASC 56-356; National Home Loans Corporation Plc v Giffen Couch & Archer [1998] 1 WLR 207; West v AGC (Advances) Ltd (1986) 5 NSWLR 601 per McHugh JA at 621; Citicorp Australia Ltd v O'Brien (1996) 40 NSWLR 398; Gellert v Bellamy [1999] NSWCA 123; Clark Boyce v Mouat [1994] 1 AC 428; CASES CITED : Farrington v Rowe McBride & Partners (1985) 1 NZLR 83; Bristol & West Building Society v Mothew [1997] 2 WLR 436 at 450E; Boardman v Phipps [1967] 2AC 46 at 124; Beach Petroleum NL v Kennedy & Ors [1999] NSWCA 408, 48 NSWLR 1 at para 425; Lowy v Alexander [2000] NSWSC 661; Stewart v Layton (t'as B M Salmon Layton & Co) (1992) 111 ALR 687; Thompson v Mikkelson (unreported) NSWSC 3.10.74; Wan v McDonald (1992) 33 FCR 491 at 511; Brickenden v London Loan & Savings Co [1934] 3 DLR 465 at 469; O'Halloran v R T Thomas & Family Pty Ltd (1998) 45 NSWLR 262; Maguire v Makaronis (1997) 188 CLR 449; Target Holdings Ltd v Redferns [1996] 1 AC 421 at 432E-H; DECISION : Judgment for the plaintiff for possession. First, second and third Cross-claims dismissed. Defendant and first cross-claimant to pay plaintiff/first cross-defendant's costs. Second cross-claimant to pay the second cross-defendant's costs.