Resarta Pty Limited & Ors v Ronald Stanley Finemore [2002] NSWSC 75

New South Wales Supreme Court

CITATION : Resarta Pty Limited & Ors v Ronald Stanley Finemore [2002] NSWSC 75 FILE NUMBER(S) : SC 6082/2001 HEARING DATE(S) : 18/02/02 JUDGMENT DATE : 21 February 2002

Resarta Pty Limited (First Plaintiff) PARTIES : Toll (FHL) Limited (Second Plaintiff) Toll Holdings Limited (Third Plaintiff) Ronald Stanley Finemore (Defendant) JUDGMENT OF : Einstein J

COUNSEL : Mr AC Archibald QC, Mr CM Caleo (Plaintiffs) Dr AS Bell (Defendant) SOLICITORS : Clayton Utz (Plaintiffs) Atanaskovic Hartnell (Defendants) CATCHWORDS : Courts and Judicial System - Cross-Vesting - Order sought to transfer proceedings - First set of proceedings brought in the Supreme Court of Victoria - Second set of proceedings brought in the Industrial Relations Commission of New South Wales - Whether Industrial Relations proceedings should be removed into the New South Wales Court of Appeal and then cross-vested to the Supreme Court of Victoria - Whether special circumstances in terms of specialist nature of Industrial Relations Commission jurisdiction exist to warrant order - Disparate approaches to cross-vesting applications - Whether further guidance warranted by Court of Appeal Industrial Relations Act 1996 LEGISLATION CITED : Jurisdiction of Courts (cross-vesting) Act 1987 Supreme Court Rules Trade Practices Act 1974 Bruning v Kingmill (Australia) Pty Ltd (1998) 44 NSWLR 180 Heath Group Australasia Pty Ltd v Hanning [1999] NSWSC 719 James Hardie & Co Pty Ltd v Barry (2000) 50 NSWLR 357 CASES CITED : Macquarie Bank Ltd v Bell [1999] NSWSC 957 Minproc Ltd v Killinger [1999] NSWSC 564 Premier Sports Australia Pty Ltd v Dodds [2001] NSWSC 707 Winron Pty Ltd v Shell Company of Australia Ltd (1996) 66 IR 64 Wood v Boral Resources (NSW) Pty Ltd (unreported, 28 October 1993, NSWSC, BC 9302189) DECISION : Proceedings to be removed to the Court of Appeal.