NSW Caselaw
Reported Decision : [2000] Aust Contract R 90-180 [2000] Aust Torts Reports 81-550
New South Wales Supreme Court
CITATION : Hitchcock v TCN Channel 9 [2000] NSWSC 198 CURRENT JURISDICTION: Equity FILE NUMBER(S) : SC 1773/00 HEARING DATE(S) : 17 & 20 March 2000 JUDGMENT DATE : 21 March 2000
PARTIES : Shari-Lea Hitchcock (P) TCN Channel Nine Pty Ltd (D) JUDGMENT OF : Austin J
T E F Hughes QC with B A Connell (P) COUNSEL : B McClintock SC with J Sleight (D) G O'L Reynolds SC with N E Abadee (for Nationwide News Ltd, intervening) SOLICITORS : Clayton Utz (P) Gilbert & Tobin (D) CATCHWORDS : EQUITY - injunction - inducing breach of contract - contractual stipulation prohibiting disclosure - whether television program should be enjoined after extensive newspaper publicity - whether injunction futile - EQUITY - interlocutory injunction - serious question to be tried - whether it is appropriate to determine questions of construction - EQUITY - breach of confidence - whether 'nanny' has equitable obligation not to disclose information about employer's private life - CONTRACT - construction - whether it is appropriate to correct the text outside proceedings for rectification. Attorney-General (NT) v Maurice (1987) 72 ALR 231 Attorney-General v Guardian Newspapers Limited (No 2) [1988] 2 WLR 805 Chappell v TCN Channel Nine Pty Ltd (1988) 14 NSWLR 153 Coco v A. N. Clark (Engineers) Ltd [1969] RPC 41 Codelfa Construction Pty Ltd v State Rail Authority (1982) 149 CLR 347 Duchess of Argyll v Duke of Argyll [1967] 1 Ch 302 Fitzgerald v Masters (1956) 95 CLR 420 CASES CITED : David Syme & Co Ltd v General Motors-Holden's Ltd [1984] 2 NSWLR 294 Kolback Securities Ltd v Epoch Mining NL (1987) 8 NSWLR 533 Lisciandro v Official Trustee in Bankruptcy (1996) 139 ALR 689 Prenn v Simmonds [1971] 1 WLR 1381 Saltman Engineering Co Ltd v Campbell Engineering Co Ltd (1948) 65 RPC 203 Schering Chemicals Ltd v Falkman Ltd [1982] QB 1 at 28 Stephens v Avery [1988] 1 Ch 449 The Commonwealth of Australia v John Fairfax & Sons Ltd (1980) 147 CLR 39 Woodward v Hutchins [1977] 1WLR 760 DECISION : Limited interlocutory injunction granted
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