Re Global Medical Imaging Management Limited (in liq) [2001] NSWSC 476

New South Wales Supreme Court

CITATION : Re Global Medical Imaging Management Limited (in liq) [2001] NSWSC 476 revised - 8/06/2001 CURRENT JURISDICTION: Equity FILE NUMBER(S) : SC 1289/01 HEARING DATE(S) : 04/06/01, 05/06/01 JUDGMENT DATE : 5 June 2001

In the matter of Global Medical Imaging Management Limited (in liquidation) (formerly called Minotaur Funds Limited) (ACN 067 182 110) Andrew Hugh Jenner Wily as liquidator of Global Medical Imaging Management Limited PARTIES : Australian Mezzanine Investments Pty Limited (Joseph Skrzynski, Su-Ming Wong, William Duncan Ferris, Paul Kenneth Riley) ("First Applicants") James Joughin, Peter Kempen (Partners Ernst & Young) ("Second Applicants") Dr Ronald Meikle, Dr Robert Dempster & Mr Chris Ericksen ("Third Applicants") JUDGMENT OF : Santow J

S D Rares, SC/T D Castle (Liquidator) COUNSEL : J V Nicholas ("First Applicants") C Moore (Solicitor) ("Second Applicants") P Crutchfield (Solicitor) ("Third Applicants") Morgan Lewis Alter (Liquidator) SOLICITORS : Baker & McKenzie ("First Applicants") Clayton Utz ("Second Applicants") Landerer & Company (as Agents for Arnold Bloch Leibler) ("Third Applicants") CATCHWORDS : PROCEDURE — Evidence — Legal professional privilege — Applicability to liquidator's funding agreement — Sections 118 and 119 of Evidence Act. LEGISLATION CITED : Evidence Act 1995 (NSW) s118; s119 Cook v Pasminco Limited (No. 2) (2001) ATPR 41/800 CASES CITED : Esso Australia Resources Ltd v Commissioner of Taxation of the Cth of Australia (1999) 74 ALJR 339 National Crime Authority v S (1991) 100 ALR 151 DECISION : Funding agreement protected by legal privilege.