Ceil Comfort Insulation Pty Ltd & Ors v ARM Equipment Finance Pty Ltd & Anor [2001] NSWSC 28

Reported Decision : (2001) 159 FLR 310

New South Wales Supreme Court

CITATION : Ceil Comfort Insulation Pty Ltd & Ors v ARM Equipment Finance Pty Ltd & Anor [2001] NSWSC 28 revised - 2/02/2001 FILE NUMBER(S) : SC 11842/00 HEARING DATE(S) : 30/11/00 JUDGMENT DATE : 2 February 2001

PARTIES : Ceil Comfort Insulation Pty Ltd & Ors v ARM Equipment Finance Pty Ltd & Anor JUDGMENT OF : O'Keefe J

COUNSEL : Mr D Nelson - Plaintiffs Mr M Bradford - Defendants For Plaintiffs Margaretic Barristers & Solicitors Northbridge WA

BY THEIR AGENTS SOLICITORS : Carmody & Co Burwood NSW

For Defendants Raj Lawyers Sydney

CATCHWORDS : Practice - Security for costs - Plaintiff ordinarily resident outside New South Wales - Rules of Court - Inherent jurisdiction - Australian Constitution - Disability - Discrimination - Subject of the Queen - Resident in any State - Immunity - Effect on validity of law - Discretion Supreme Court Rules Pt 52 r 2 LEGISLATION CITED : Commonwealth of Australia Constitution s.117;s.16; 34; s.51 (xix); s.75(iv); s.90 Interpretation Act, 1987 s.21 Australian Building Construction Employees' and Builders Labourers' Federation and Ors v Commonwealth Trading Bank and Ors (1976) 2 NSWLR 371 Rajski v Computer Manufacture and Design Pty Ltd (1982) 2 NSWLR 443 Street v Queensland Bar Association (1989) 168 CLR 461 Nolan v Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (1988) 165 CLR 178 at 186 Bonser v La Macchia (1968-1969) 122 CLR 177 Matchett & Anor v Deputy Commissioner of Taxation [2000] NSWSC 975 (Supreme Court, unreported 23 October 2000) CASES CITED : Regina v Foreign Secretary Ex Parte Indian Association (1982) QB 892 at 928 Australian Temperance and General Mutual Assurance Society Ltd v Howe (1922) 31 CLR 290 Cox v Journeaux (1934) 52 CLR 282 at 283 Union Steamship Co of New Zealand Ltd v Ferguson (1969) 119 CLR 191 Commissioner of Taxes v Parks (1933) St.R.Qd. 306 at 315-6 Henry v Boehm (1973) 128 CLR 483 Davies and Jones v Western Australia (1904) 2 CLR 29 DECISION : Motion dismissed; Costs of the motion to be plaintiffs costs in the action.