NSW Caselaw
New South Wales Supreme Court
CITATION : ACP Magazines Pty Ltd v Southdown Publications Pty Ltd & Ors [2002] NSWSC 901 CURRENT JURISDICTION: Equity Division Commercial List FILE NUMBER(S) : SC 50130/02 HEARING DATE(S) : 8 - 14 October 2002 JUDGMENT DATE : 19 November 2002
ACP Magazines Pty Ltd (Pltf) Southdown Publications Pty Ltd (1D) PARTIES : Pacific Publications Pty Ltd (2D) PMP Publishing Pty Ltd (3D) Jupelly Pty Ltd (4D) JUDGMENT OF : McClellan J
J M Ireland QC/A J Meagher SC/R Cobden/ K Richardson (Pltf) COUNSEL : J T Gleeson SC/P J Brereton/C A Moore (1, 2 & 4D) M Macrossan (3D) Gilbert & Tobin (Pltf) SOLICITORS : Coudert Brothers (1, 2, & 4D) Minter Ellison (3D) CATCHWORDS : COMMERCIAL - construction of contract - where contractual term provided for the transfer of rights in a magazine business - where that magazine business had a long association with an awards show - whether the trade marks for the awards show and other photographic material should be included in the interest to be transferred - goodwill - whether the trade marks were a component of the goodwill of the magazine - breach of contract - whether there is an action for inducement of a breach of contract. LEGISLATION CITED : Limitation Act 1969 (NSW) s 16, s 14 Trade Marks Act 1995 Hepples v Federal Commissioner of Taxation (1992) 173 CLR 492 Commisioner of Taxation v Murry (1998) 193 CLR 605 The Commissioner of Inland Revenue v Muller v Co's Margarine Ltd (1901) AC 217 FC of T v Just Jeans Pty Ltd (1987) 16 FCR 110 Equiticorp Finance Limited (In Liquidation) v Bank of New Zealand (1993) 32 NSWLR 50 Pole v Leask (1863) 33 LJCH 155 Freeman & Lockyer v Buckhurst Park Properties (Mangal) Ltd [1964] 2 QB 480 CASES CITED : Short v The City Bank (1912) 12 SR (NSW) 186 Allstate Life Insurance Company & Ors v Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Ltd & Ors (1995) 58 FCR 26 Southern Cross Refrigerating Co v Toowoomba Foundry Pty Ltd (1954) 91 CLR 592 TGI Friday's Australia Pty Limited v TGI Friday's Inc (2000) 100 FCR 358 Morny Limited's Trade Mark (1951) 68 RPC 131 "Sea Island Cotton" Certification Trade Mark [1989] RPC 87 Unilever Australia Limited v Karounos (2001) 52 IPR 361 Campomar Sociedad, Limitada v Nike International Ltd (2000) 202 CLR 45 Castol Ltd's Trade Mark [1972] RPC 531 DECISION : See para 124
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