Glazier v Australian Men's Health [2000] NSWSC 253

New South Wales Supreme Court

CITATION : Glazier v Australian Men's Health [2000] NSWSC 253 CURRENT JURISDICTION: Equity FILE NUMBER(S) : SC 4905/97; 4237/98 HEARING DATE(S) : 4905/97 8, 9, 10 March 1999 4237/98 22 March, 21, 22 & 23 April 1999 JUDGMENT DATE : 3 April 2000

4905/97 Glazier Holdings Pty Ltd (P) Australian Men's Health Pty Ltd (D1) Graham Meehan (D2) Anthony Murphy (D3) Arthur Kevin Brain (D4) PARTIES : Treykell Pty Ltd (D5) Martin Madden (Applicant)

4237/98 Glazier Holdings Pty Ltd (P) Australian Men's Health Pty Ltd (D1) Anthony Murphy (D2) Graham Meehan (D3) JUDGMENT OF : Austin J

P Dodson (P) S M P Reeves (Mr Madden) 4905/97 COUNSEL : P A Somerset (Sol) (D1 & Mr J Star (Administrator)) S Rares SC with S Emmett (D2, D3 & D5) 4905/97 B A Coles QC (D2 & D3) 4237/98 Henry Davis York (P) SOLICITORS : P A Somerset & Co (D1) Turtons (D2, D3 & D5) CATCHWORDS : COSTS - appropriate order when principal relief has become otiose - PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE - application to remove defendants as parties - whether defendants were appropriate parties - PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE - taking of accounts - application to proceed under order - whether appropriate - TRUSTS - application by trustee for judicial advice - when appropriate - whether new trustee justified in taking no further action when plaintiff has not yet applied to proceed under order for taking of account LEGISLATION CITED : Corporations Law ss 445D, 445G and 447A Supreme Court Rules Pt 52A Adsett v Berlouis (1992) 37 FCR 201 Aiden Shipping Co Ltd v Interbulk Ltd [1986] 1 AC 965 Alcock v Public Trustee (1936) 53 WN (NSW) 192 Alsop Wilkinson v Neary [1995] 1 All ER 431 Australian Securities Commission v Aust-Home Investments Ltd (1993) 44 FCR 194 Barnes v Addy (1874) LR 9 Ch App 244 Bent v Gough (1992) 36 SCR 204 Burns Philp & Co Ltd v Murphy (1992) 29 NSWLR 723 Deputy Commissioner of Taxation v Comcorp Australia (1996) 21 ACSR 590 Emanuele v Hedley, ACT Supreme Court, 19 December 1997, unreported Grime Carter & Co Pty Ltd v Whytes Furniture (Dubbo) Pty Ltd [1983] 1 NSWLR 158 Hagan v Waterhouse [1983] 2 NSWLR 395 Hagenvale Pty Ltd v Depela Pty Ltd (1995) 17 ACSR 129 JT Statford & Ltd v Lindley (No 2) [1969] 3 All ER 1122 Kelly v Murphy, NSW CA, unreported, 25 November 1993 Knight v FP Special Assets Ltd (1992) 174 CLR 178 CASES CITED : Leicester v Walton, Court of Appeal of New South Wales, 22 November 1995, unreported McDonald v Horn [1994] NLJ Law Rep 1515 McLean v Burns Philp Trustee Co Pty Ltd (1985) 2 NSWLR 623 Molit (No 55) Pty Ltd v Lam Soon Australia Pty Ltd (1996) 19 ACSR 160 Partington v Reynolds (1858) 4 Drew 253 Pit v Cholmondeley (1754) 2 Ves 565 Re Bartlett Researched Securities Pty Ltd (1994) 12 ACSR 707 Re Beddoe [1893] 1 Ch 547 Re Brogden (1888) 38 ChD 546 Re Carey Builders Pty Ltd (1997) 23 ACSR 754 Re Dallaway (1982) 1 WLR 756 Re England's Settlement Trusts [1918] 1 Ch 24 Re Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs; ex parte Lai Qin (1997) 186 CLR 622 Re Mitchell (1913) 30 WN (NSW) 137 Re Wilson Lovatt & Sons Ltd [1977] 1 All ER 274 Re Wrightson [1908] 1 Ch 789 Sydney Land Corporation Pty Ltd v Kalon Pty Ltd (1997) 26 ACSR 427 Young v Murphy [1996] 1 VR 279 DECISION : Application by receiver/trustee in 4905/97 for judicial advice partly granted; application by second and third defendants in 4237/98 for removal as parties denied; on plaintiff's application for costs in 4237/98, no order for costs