Fatimi Pty Ltd v Bryant & Ors [2002] NSWSC 750

Reported Decision : (2002) Aust Torts Reports 81-677

New South Wales Supreme Court

CITATION : Fatimi Pty Ltd v Bryant & Ors [2002] NSWSC 750 CURRENT JURISDICTION: Equity FILE NUMBER(S) : SC 1444/98 HEARING DATE(S) : 29/7/02-1/8/02, 5/8/02 JUDGMENT DATE : 20 September 2002

Fatimi Pty Limited (Plaintiff) Elizabeth Charlotte Bryant (First Defendant) Richard Michael Joseph Bryant (Second Defendant) PARTIES : NN&D Pty Limited (Third Defendant) Robert Bruce McCullough (Fourth Defendant) Nirmal Fernando (Fifth Defendant) Joseph Richard Bryant (Sixth Defendant) JUDGMENT OF : Campbell J

COUNSEL : M B Evans (Plaintiff) F Kunc; M Henry (Defendants) SOLICITORS : John Cunningham (Plaintiff) John Samuel Sheehy (Defendants) CATCHWORDS : TORTS - MISCELLANEOUS TORTS - conspiring to injure - meaning of "predominent purpose to injure the plaintiff" - factual findings about whether plaintiff suffered any loss in consequence of any conspiracy - TORTS - MISCELLANEOUS TORTS - conspiracy to injure by unlawful means - meaning of "purpose to injure the plaintiff" - meaning of "common intention to use unlawful means" - whether "unlawful means" needs to be activity which, if committed by one person alone without any conspiracy, would be actionable in damages - JUDGMENTS AND ORDERS - order made "until further order" - PROCEDURE - miscellaneous procedural matters - Mareva Orders - duration of Bankruptcy Act 1966 (Cth) Conveyancing Act 1919 Corporate Law Reform Act 1992 (Cth) Corporations Act 1990 (NSW) LEGISLATION CITED : Crimes Act 1900 Evidence Act 1975 Industrial Relations Act 1996 (NSW) Law Reform Miscellaneous (Provisions) Act 1946 Real Property Act 1900 Supreme Court Act 1970 AG Australia Holdings Pty Ltd v Burton [2002] NSWSC 170 Ansett Transport Industries (Operations) Pty Ltd v Australian Federation of Air Pilots [1991] 1 VR 637 Attorney General of the Commonwealth v Davids Holdings Pty Ltd (1993) ATPR 41-247 Balfour Williamson (Australia) Pty Ltd v Douter Luingner (1979) 2 NSWLR 844 Baxter v Obacelo Pty Ltd [2001] HCA 66 Belmont Finance Corporation v Williams Furniture Limited (No 2) [1980] 1 All ER 393 Blacktown Concrete Services Pty Ltd v Ultra Refurbishing & Construction Pty Ltd (in liq) (1998) 43 NSWLR 484 Bolton v London School Board (1878) 7 Ch D 766 Briginshaw v Briginshaw (1938) 60 CLR 336 Cabasi v Vila (1940) 64 CLR 130 Coal Miners' Industrial Union of Workers of Western Australia Collie v True (1959) 33 ALJR 224 Cox v Journeaux (No 2) (1935) 52 CLR 713 The Cunard Steamship Company Limited v Stacey [1955] 2 Ll R 247 Deputy Commissioner of Taxation v Winter (1988) 92 FLR 327 G Scammell & Nephew Limited v Hurley [1929] 1 KB 419 Devlin v Collins (1984) 37 SASR 98 Fylas Pty Ltd v Vynal Pty Ltd [1992] 2 Qd R 593 G Scammell & Nephew Limited v Hurley [1929] 1 KB 419 Galland v Mineral Underwriters Ltd [1977] WAR 116 Giblan v National Amalgamated Labourers' Union of Great Britain and Ireland [1903] 2 QB 600 Green v Pulsford (1839) 2 Beav 75; 48 ER 1105 Gold Coast City Council v Pioneer Concrete (QLD) Pty Ltd (1998) 157 ALR 135 CASES CITED : Idoport Pty Limited v National Australia Bank Limited [2001] NSWSC 328 In the Marriage of I H & S A Millar (1983) 9 Fam LR 5 Inez Investments Pty Limited v Dodd (9 July 1979, unreported) Lane v Registrar of Supreme Court of NSW (1981) 148 CLR 245 LMI Australasia Pty Limited v Baulderstone Hornibrook Pty Ltd [2001] NSWSC 886 Lonrho Plc v Fayed [1992] 1 AC 448 Maritime Union of Australia v Geraldton Port Authority (1999) 93 FCR 34 McKellar v Container Terminal Management Services Ltd (1999) 165 ALR 409 McKernan v Fraser (1931) 46 CLR 343 McWilliam v Penthouse Publication Ltd [2001] NSWCA 237 Michaels v Taylor Woodrow Developments Ltd [2001] Ch 493 Mogul Steamship Company v McGregor, Gow & Co [1892] AC 25 Northern Territory of Australia v Mengel (1995) 185 CLR 307 O'Brien v Dawson (1941) 41 SR (NSW) 295 O'Brien v Dawson (1942) 66 CLR 18 Pancontinental Mining Ltd v Posgold Investments Pty Ltd (1994) 13 ACSR 117 Pritchard v Briggs [1980] 1 Ch 338 R v Associated Northern Collieries (1911) 14 CLR 387 R v Churchill [1967] 2 AC 224 Root Quality Pty Ltd v Root Control Technologies Pty Ltd (2000) 177 ALR 231 Said v Butt [1920] 3 KB 497 Sorrell v Smith [1925] AC 700 Southan v Grounds (1916) 16 SR 274 Stewart Chartering Ltd v C & O Managements SA [1980] 1 All ER 718 Williams v Hursey (1959) 103 CLR 30 DECISION : Suit dismissed