IDOPORT PTY LIMITED & ANOR v NATIONAL AUSTRALIA BANK LIMITED AND 8 ORS; IDOPORT PTY LTD "JMG" & MARKET HOLDINGS PTY LTD v DONALD ROBERT ARGUS [11] [2000] NSWSC 945

New South Wales Supreme Court

CITATION : IDOPORT PTY LIMITED & ANOR v NATIONAL AUSTRALIA BANK LIMITED AND 8 ORS; IDOPORT PTY LTD "JMG" & MARKET HOLDINGS PTY LTD v DONALD ROBERT ARGUS [11] [2000] NSWSC 945 FILE NUMBER(S) : SC 50113/98; 50026/99 HEARING DATE(S) : 3/10/00, 4/10/00 & 5/10/00 JUDGMENT DATE : 5 October 2000

IDOPORT PTY LIMITED (Plaintiff) PARTIES : MARKET HOLDINGS PTY LTD (Plaintiff) NATIONAL AUSTRALIA BANK LIMITED (Defendant) DONALD ROBERT ARGUS (Defendant) JUDGMENT OF : Einstein J

COUNSEL : JJ Garnsey QC, RC Titterton & R Alkadamani (Plaintiffs) TF Bathurst QC, JR Sackar QC, H K Insall (Defendants) SOLICITORS : Withnell Hetherington (Plaintiffs) Freehill Hollingdale and Page (Defendants) CATCHWORDS : Practice and procedure - Avoidance of multiplicity of proceedings - Order that proceedings raising common questions of law and fact and arising out of same set of transactions be heard together - Case management. Amendment 337 to Supreme Court Rules Evidence Act 1995 Judicature Act 1873 (UK) LEGISLATION CITED : Judiciary Act 1903 Supreme Court Act 1873 Supreme Court Act 1970 s63 Supreme Court of Judicature (Consolidated) Act 1925 (UK) CASES CITED : Philip Morris Inc v Adam P. Brown Male Fashions (1980) 148 CLR 457 Trawl Industries v Effem Foods (1992) 36 FCR 406 DECISION : The Defendants' Notice of Motion allowed, costs being reserved.

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