ASIC v Sweeney No.2 [2001] NSWSC 477

Reported Decision : (2001) 38 ACSR 743

New South Wales Supreme Court

CITATION : ASIC v Sweeney No.2 [2001] NSWSC 477 CURRENT JURISDICTION: Equity FILE NUMBER(S) : SC 3339/99 HEARING DATE(S) : 18 April 2001 JUDGMENT DATE : 8 June 2001

PARTIES : Australian Securities & Investments Commission (P) Charles Augustine Sweeney (D) JUDGMENT OF : Austin J

COUNSEL : M Pembroke SC with J Stevenson (P) I Barker QC, M Oakes SC & S Gorrick (D) SOLICITORS : Jan Redfern, Solicitor for Australian Securities & Investments Commission (P) Noel F Bracks & Company (D) CATCHWORDS : PRACTICE & PROCEDURE - substituted service - plaintiff resident abroad and outside the jurisdiction when proceedings commence - whether court has jurisdiction to order substituted service - whether proceedings for declaratory relief for contravention of provisions of Corporations Law are founded on a cause of action - whether court can and should cure failure to serve form 13A Notice Corporations Law ss 995, 998, 1002G, 1114, 1324 LEGISLATION CITED : Supreme Court Act 1970 (NSW) ss 66, 75, 81 Supreme Court Rules Pt 9 r 10 & 11, Pt 10 r 1A, 2, 2A, 4, 5, 6A, Pt 11 r 8 ANZ Grindlay's Bank Plc v Hussein Salaheh Hussein Abdul Fattah (1991) 4 WAR 296 Arhill Pty Ltd v General Terminal Co Pty Ltd (Supreme Court of New South Wales, Rogers J, unreported, 19 December 1990) Australian Coastal Shipping Commission v Curtis Cruising Pty Ltd (1989) 17 NSWLR 734 Australian Softwood Forests Pty Ltd v Attorney-General (1981) 148 CLR 121 BP Exploration Co (Libya) Ltd v Hunt [1980] 1 NSWLR 496 Camera Care Ltd v Victor Hasselblad Aktiebolaa (1986) 1 FTLR 348 Denkman v Denkman 14 NYS (2d) 450 (1939) Ford v Sheppard (1885) 34 WR 63 Foxe v Brown (1984) 58 ALR 542 Guaranty Trust Co of New York v Hannay & Co [1915] 2 KB 536 Hunter v Singh (1986) 1 Qd R 106 CASES CITED : Mondial Trading Pty Ltd v Interocean Marine Transport Inc (1985) 60 ALJR 277 News Corporation Ltd v Lenfest Communications Inc (1996) 21 ACSR 553 Papps v Mahon [1966] NZLR 288 Penn v Baltimore (1750) 1 Ves Sen 444 Porter v Freudenberg [1915] 1 KB 857 Ricegrowers Cooperative Ltd v ABC Containerline NV (1996) 138 ALR 480 Richard West & Partners v Dick [1969] 2 Ch 436 Rosenbaum v Rosenbaum [1926] VLR 280 The Vrontados [1982] 2 Lloyd's LR 241 Western Suburban and Notting Hill Permanent Benefit Building Society v Rucklidge [1905] 2 Ch 472 Williams v Lips-Heerlen BV (Supreme Court of New South Wales, unreported, 1 November 1991) Williams v Milotin (1957) 97 CLR 465 DECISION : Separate question determined by answering that Court had jurisdiction to make orders for substituted service