Stockland (Constructors) Pty Limited & Anor v Darryl I Coombs Pty Limited & Ors [2002] NSWSC 813

New South Wales Supreme Court

CITATION : Stockland (Constructors) Pty Limited & Anor v Darryl I Coombs Pty Limited & Ors [2002] NSWSC 813 FILE NUMBER(S) : SC 55046/99 HEARING DATE(S) : 30/8/02 JUDGMENT DATE : 30 August 2002

Stockland (Constructors) Pty Limited (First Plaintiff) Stockland (Properties) Pty Limited (Second Plaintiff) PARTIES : Darryl I Coombs Pty Limited (First Defendant) Philip J Flook Pty Limited (Second Defendant) Retail Design Group (International) Pty Limited (Third Defendant) JUDGMENT OF : Einstein J

COUNSEL : DE Grieve QC, PL Dodson (Plaintiffs) AW Street SC, R Newell (Third Defendant) SOLICITORS : Cohen & Krass (Plaintiffs) Bull, Son & Schmidt (Third Defendant) CATCHWORDS : Practice and Procedure - Leave to amend - Function of pleadings and particulars - Pleadings to state case of the party propounding the pleadings with sufficient clarity to permit the other party to meet the case - Transparency of reasoning processes/use of language LEGISLATION CITED : Supreme Court Rules Trade Practices Act 1974 Banque Commerciale SA, en liquidation v Akhil Holdings Ltd (1990) 169 CLR 279 Clough & Rogers v Frog (1974) 48 ALJR 481 Cropper v Smith (1884) 26 Ch D 700 Fraser v NRMA Holdings Ltd (1995) 55 FCR 452 CASES CITED : Gould and Birkbeck and Bacon v Mount Oxide Mines Ltd [1927] 1 KB 448 Henjo Investments Pty Ltd v Collins Marrickville Pty Ltd (1988) 79 ALR 83 Makita (Australia) Pty Ltd v Sprowles (2001) 52 NSWLR 705 Rhone-Poulenc Agrochime SA v UIM Chemical Services Pty Ltd (1986) 12 FCR 477 State of Queensland v J L Holdings Pty Ltd (1997) 189 CLR 146 Winterton Constructions Pty Ltd v Hambros Australia Ltd (1992) 39 FCR 97 DECISION : Leave refused to amend particular sections of summons.