OZ-US Film Productions Pty Ltd v Heath [2000] NSWSC 967

New South Wales Supreme Court

CITATION : OZ-US Film Productions Pty Ltd v Heath [2000] NSWSC 967 CURRENT JURISDICTION: Equity Division FILE NUMBER(S) : SC 3922/97 HEARING DATE(S) : 06/09/2000 JUDGMENT DATE : 8 September 2000

OZ-US Film Productions Pty Limited (In Liquidation) (P) Simon Heath (D1) PARTIES : Hanline Pty Limited (D2) Mace Neufeld (D3) Mace Neufeld Productions Inc (D4) Sanwa Australia Limited (D5) JUDGMENT OF : Young J

COUNSEL : R Brender (P) I Wales SC and M Ashhurst (D3 & 4) SOLICITORS : Lakos & Company (P) Noyce Lawyers (D3 & 4) CATCHWORDS : EQUITY [1]- Maxims- Equity acts in personam- Foreign defendants- Whether jurisdiction to deal with breach of fiduciary duty in USA- PRIVATE INTERNATIONAL LAW [63]- Choice of law- Breach of fiduciary duty- Law of forum applies. Barclays Bank plc v Homan & Maxwell Communciations Corp plc [1993] BCLC 680 Hadkinson v Hadkinson [1952] P 285 Hamilton v Oades (1988) 166 CLR 486 Hospital for Sick Children v Walt Disney Productions Inc [1968] Ch 52 Mitchell v Carter [1997] 1 BCLC 673 National Australia Bank Ltd v Dessau [1988] VR 521 National Commercial Bank v Wimborne (1979) 11 NSWLR 156 CASES CITED : Oceanic Sun Line Special Shipping Co Inc v Fay (1988) 165 CLR 197 Packer v Meagher [1984] 3 NSWLR 486 Permewan Wright Consolidated Pty Ltd v Attorney-General (1978) 35 NSWLR 365 Ex parte Pollard; Re Courtney (1840) Montagu & Chitty Bankruptcy Reports 239 Rajski v Bainton (1990) 22 NSWLR 125 Tringali v Stewardson Stubbs & Collett Pty Ltd (1966) 66 SR (NSW) 335 United States Surgical Corp v Hospital Products International Pty Ltd [1982] 2 NSWLR 766 Wilson v Metcalfe 47 ER 824 DECISION : Notice of motion dismissed with costs.