Queanbeyan Leagues Club Ltd v Poldune Pty Ltd & Ors [2000] NSWSC 216

New South Wales Supreme Court

CITATION : Queanbeyan Leagues Club Ltd v Poldune Pty Ltd & Ors [2000] NSWSC 216 CURRENT JURISDICTION: Equity FILE NUMBER(S) : SC 3418/96 HEARING DATE(S) : 7 March 2000 JUDGMENT DATE : 7 March 2000

Queanbeyan Leagues Club Limited (P) Poldune Pty Limited (D1) Government Insurance Office of NSW (D2) Peter Michael Bowen & partners named in Schedule D practising as Gadens Ridgeway (D3-13) PARTIES : M J Armstrong (D14) GIO Life Limited (D15) Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited (D16) Marshall Marks Kennedy (XD1) John Landerer practising as Landerer & Company (XD to 2nd XC) JUDGMENT OF : Hamilton J

G C Lindsay SC and A Ridley (P) No appearance (D1) G Colman (D2 & 15) COUNSEL : No appearance (D3-13) J Timbs QC and I Bailey (D14) No appearance (D16) M T McCulloch (XD1) No appearance (XD to 2nd XC) Colquhoun Murphy (P) Kemp Strang (D1) Barker Gosling (D2 & 15) SOLICITORS : Mallesons Stephen Jaques (D3-13) Tress Cocks & Maddox (D14) Norton Smith & Co (D16) Phillips Fox (XD1) Minter Ellison (XD to 2nd XC) CATCHWORDS : PROCEDURE [745] - Miscellaneous matters - Declarations - Requirement that all matters in controversy be determined - Whether that requirement should preclude making of declarations where in negligence claim in multi party proceedings issues of duty of care and breach between two particular parties finally determined on hearing of separate questions. LEGISLATION CITED : Supreme Court Act 1970, s 75 CASES CITED : Young on Declaratory Orders (2nd Ed, 1984) Zamir and Woolf, The Declaratory Judgment (2nd Ed, 1993) DECISION : Declarations should be made.