Multiplex Constructions Pty Limited v Suscindy Management Pty Limited [2000] NSWSC 484

New South Wales Supreme Court

CITATION : Multiplex Constructions Pty Limited v Suscindy Management Pty Limited [2000] NSWSC 484 FILE NUMBER(S) : SC 50029/00 HEARING DATE(S) : 17 May 2000 JUDGMENT DATE : 26 June 2000

PARTIES : Multiplex Constructions Pty Limited (Plaintiff) Suscindy Management Pty Liimited (Defendant) JUDGMENT OF : Einstein J

COUNSEL : N. Cotman SC, M Galvin (Plaintiff) M. Rudge SC, D Hoskins (Defendant) SOLICITORS : Minter Ellison (Plaintiff) Beston Macken McManis (Defendant) CATCHWORDS : Contract - Arbitration - Abandonment of arbitration - Contract of abandonment - When conduct may be taken to amount to a contract to abandon arbitration - Difficulty of contract of abandonment when arbitration is considerably advanced over substantial period of time. - Equity - Interlocutory injunction - Balance of convenience - Records of one party lost - Delay on the part of applicant - Strength of the applicant's case Air Great Lakes Pty Limited v KS Easter Pty Limited (1985) 2 NSWLR 324 Andre et Compagnie v Marine Trans Ocean ("the Splendid Son") (1981) 1 QB 694 Bremer Vulkan v South India Shipping Corporation Limited (1981) AC 909 Commercial Arbitration Act (1984) DTR Nominees Pty Limited v Mona Homes Pty Limited (1978) 138 CLR 423 Excom v Guan (the "Golden Bear") (1987) 1 Lloyd's Reports 330 CASES CITED : Fitzgerald v Masters (1956) 95 CLR 420 Hungry Jacks Pty Ltd v Burger King Australia Pty Ltd (1999) 30 ACSR 551 Oxford Clothing Co. v Tasmanian Government (1994) 4 Tasmanian Reports 1 Paal Wilson v Blumenthal (the Hannah Blumerthal) (1982) 3 WLR 1149 Pearl Mill & Co. v Ivy Tannery Co. (1919) 1 KB 78 Summer v The Commonwealth (1918) 25 CLR 144 Tankrederei Ahrenkeil (the "Multibank Holsatia") (1988) 2 Lloyd's Reports 486 United Kingdom Court of Appeal in Allied Marine Transport Vale (1985) 1 WLR 925 DECISION : Application for interlocutory injunction dismissed.