Jennings v Credit Corp Australia Pty Ltd [2000] NSWSC 210

Reported Decision : [2000] 48 NSWLR 709

New South Wales Supreme Court

CITATION : Jennings v Credit Corp Australia Pty Ltd [2000] NSWSC 210 CURRENT JURISDICTION: Equity FILE NUMBER(S) : SC 4970/99 HEARING DATE(S) : 03/03/00 JUDGMENT DATE : 22 March 2000

PARTIES : Louise Jennifer Jennings (Plaintiff/Appellant) Credit Corp Australia Pty Ltd (ACN 056 664 183) as assignee from Citicorp Person to Person Financial Services Pty Limited (Defendant/Respondent) JUDGMENT OF : Santow J

COUNSEL : J M Hennessy (Plaintiff/Appellant) L Tyndall (Defendant/Respondent) SOLICITORS : Eddy & Molony (Plaintiff/Appellant) CATCHWORDS : PROPERTY — Equity — Practice and Procedure — Case stated from magistrate — Relevant principles — Sufficiency of evidence that was an effective assignment — Limitation Act 1969 (NSW) does not bar enforcement action against a debtor brought by an equitable assignee without joining the legal assignor though legal estate only got in after limitation period expired — effect of Local Court Rules for civil claims. Conveyancing Act 1919 (NSW), s12 LEGISLATION CITED : Justices Act, 1902 (NSW), s101 Limitation Act 1969 (NSW), s63 Australia & New Zealand Banking Group Ltd v Larcos (1987) 13 NSWLR 286 Australian Gaslight Co v The Valuer General (1940) 40 SR(NSW) 126 Compania Colombiana de Seguros v Pacific Steam Navigation Co [1965] 1 QB 101; [1964] 1 All ER 216 Comptroller of Stamps (Vict) v Howard Smith (1936) 54 CLR 614 Dillon v Baltic Shipping Co ("The Mikhail Lermontov No. 2") (SC(NSW), Carruthers J, 28 May 1993, unreported) Fernance v Nominal Defendant (1989) 17 NSWLR 710 Forbes v Trotting Club (NSW) (1979) 143 CLR 242 Holt v Heatherfield Trust Ltd [1942] 2 KB 1 Lombardo v Federal Commissioner of Taxation (1979) 28 ALR 574 Long Leys Co Pty Ltd v Silkdale Pty Ltd (1991) 5 BPR 11,512 McKain v R W Miller & Co (SA) Pty Ltd (1991) 174 CLR 1 CASES CITED : Marchant v Morton Down & Co [1901] 2 KB 829 Mountain Road No. (9) v Michael Edgley Corporation Pty Ltd [1999] 1 NZLR 335 National Mutual Life Nominees Ltd v National Capital Development Commission (1975) 6 ACTR 1 Norman v Federal Commissioner of Taxation (1963) 109 CLR 9 Omega Estates Pty Ltd v Ganke (1962) 80 WN(NSW) 1218 Performing Right Society Ltd v London Theatre of Varieties Ltd [1924] AC 1 (HL) Pincus v Ord Minnett Ltd (SC (Vic), Hedigan J, 5 May 1994, unreported) Showa Shoji Australia Pty Limited v Oceanic Life Ltd (1994) 34 NSWLR 548 Thomas v National Australia Bank Ltd (SC No. 237 of 1996, 21 December 1999, unreported) Warner Bros v Rollgreen Ltd [1976] QB 430 Weddell & Anor v J A Pearce & Major & Anor [1988] 1 Ch 26 William Brandt's Sons & Co v Dunlop Rubber Co Ltd [1905] AC 454 DECISION : Magistrate's decision upheld via stated case.