Bovis Lend Lease Pty Limited v WGE Pty Limited [2002] NSWSC 939

New South Wales Supreme Court

CITATION : Bovis Lend Lease Pty Limited v WGE Pty Limited [2002] NSWSC 939 FILE NUMBER(S) : SC 55013/02 HEARING DATE(S) : 4/10/02 JUDGMENT DATE : 4 October 2002

PARTIES : Bovis Lend Lease Pty Limited (Plaintiff) WGE Pty Limited (Defendant) JUDGMENT OF : Einstein J

COUNSEL : M R Gracie (Plaintiff) T Davie (Defendant) SOLICITORS : Freehills (Plaintiff) Colin Biggers & Paisley (Defendant) CATCHWORDS : Practice and Procedure - Arbitration award - Remittal of issues to arbitrator - Appeal from arbitration allowed and matter remitted to arbitrator for determination of certain issues - Notice of motion seeking to remit additional points of claim to arbitrator - Additional points of claim sought to be remitted never initially before arbitrator - Whether court has jurisdiction to remit additional points of claim - Whether width of s43 of Commercial Arbitration Act 1984 (NSW) permits further remittal of issues LEGISLATION CITED : Commercial Arbitration Act 1984 Supreme Court Rules Commonwealth of Australia v Cockatoo Dockyards Pty Ltd (1994) 35 NSWLR 704 King v Thomas McKenna Ltd [1991] 2 QB 480 Hashman v Downie (1996) 39 NSWLR 169 CASES CITED : Imperial Leatherware Co Pty Ltd v Macri and Marcellino Pty Ltd (1991) 22 NSWLR 653 Mutual Shipping Corp v Bayshore Shipping Co Ltd [1985] 1 WLR 625 South Australian Superannuation Fund Investment Trust v Leighton Contractors Pty Ltd (1990) 55 SASR 327 Sabemo Pty Ltd v Malaysia Hotel, (Australia) Pty Ltd (unreported, NSWSC, 4 June 1992, BC 9201836) DECISION : The notice of motion filed on 12 September 2002 is dismissed. Order that the defendant pay the plaintiff's costs of that motion.