Bon Appetit Family Restaurant Pty. Limited v. Synnerdahl & Anor. [2002] NSWCA 368

New South Wales Court of Appeal

CITATION : Bon Appetit Family Restaurant Pty. Limited v. Synnerdahl & Anor. [2002] NSWCA 368 FILE NUMBER(S) : CA 40336/01 HEARING DATE(S) : 25 October 2002 JUDGMENT DATE : 14 November 2002

Bon Appetit Family Restaurant Pty. Limited - appellant PARTIES : Cheryl Synnerdahl - 1st respondent Mount Pritchard Community Club - 2nd respondent JUDGMENT OF : Handley JA at 1; Beazley JA at 11; Hodgson JA at 12

LOWER COURT JURISDICTION : District Court LOWER COURT DC 3285/00 FILE NUMBER(S) : LOWER COURT Naughton DCJ JUDICIAL OFFICER :

Mr. I. Harrison SC with Mr R. Cavanagh for appellant COUNSEL : Mr. G.B. Hall QC with Ms. I. Ryan for 1st respondent Mr. M.J. Neil QC with Mr. M. Minehan for 2nd resondent Holman Webb, Sydney for appellant SOLICITORS : Brydens, Liverpool for 1st respondent Hicksons, Sydney for 2nd respondent CATCHWORDS : PROCEDURE - Costs - Costs on indemnity basis - Re-hearing of action referred to arbitrator - Defendant successful before arbitrator - Evidence not called by defendant before arbitration, but called in District Court - Whether occasion for indemnity costs. - TORT - Negligence - Employee of club slips on floor in area of club used by a caterer - Failure to clean floor - Whether caterer liable - Whether club entitled to contractual indemnity. Bright v. Sampson & Duncan Enterprises Pty. Ltd. (1985) 1 NSWLR 346 Darlington Futures Limited v. Delco Australia Pty. Ltd. (1986) 161 CLR 500 East End Dwellings Co. Ltd. v. Finsbury Borough Council [1952] AC 109 Ex parte Walton (1881) 17 ChD 746 H & E Van Der Sterren v. Cybernetics (Holdings) Pty. Ltd. (1970) 44 ALJR 157 CASES CITED: Hill v. East & West India Dock Co. (1884) 9 App Cas 448 MacDougall v. Curlevski (1996) 40 NSWLR 430 Muller v. Dalgety & Co. Ltd. (1909) 9 CLR 693 Najdanovic v. Brown, unreported 22/9/92, Finlay J Quach v. Mustafa, Court of Appeal 15/6/95 Sydney City Council v. West (1965) 114 CLR 481 DECISION : 1. Caterer's appeal dismissed with costs. 2. Club's appeal allowed to the extent that the primary judge's order for indemnity costs against the Club in favour of the plaintiff is set aside, and otherwise dismissed. 3. No order as to the costs of the Club's appeal, to the intent that each party to that appeal should bear its own costs.