GEREA AOPI v HOWARD RAPKE [2002] NSWSC 711

New South Wales Supreme Court

CITATION : GEREA AOPI v HOWARD RAPKE [2002] NSWSC 711 FILE NUMBER(S) : SC 20585 of 2000 HEARING DATE(S) : 8 August 2002 JUDGMENT DATE : 15 August 2002

GEREA AOPI (Plaintiff)

PARTIES : v

HOWARD RAPKE (Defendant)

JUDGMENT OF : Levine J

S. Littlemore QC (Plaintiff) COUNSEL : G. Reynolds SC / R. McHugh (Defendant) Tress Cocks & Maddox (Plaintiff) SOLICITORS : Corrs Chambers Westgarth (Defendant) CATCHWORDS : Application for security for costs Defamation Act 1974 LEGISLATION CITED : Foreign Judgments Act 1973 (NSW) Foreign Judgments Act 1991 (Cth) Bryan E Fencott Pty Ltd v Eretta (1987) 16 FCR 497 Chellaram v China Ocean Shipping (1991) 102 ALR 321 Diakh v Hyundai Corporation (Rogers CJ Comm. D., unreported 17 October 1988) Energy Drilling Inc v Petroz NL (1989) ATPR 40-954 Fouche v The Superannuation Fund Board (1952) 88 CLR 609 Kent Heating v Cook On Gas (1984) 59 ILR 277 CASES CITED : King v Commercial Bank of Australia Limited (1920) 28 CLR 289 Lucas v Yorke (1983) 50 ALR 228 Mariala Estates v Athanasi & Ors [2001] NSWSC 1013 Re Speight; Speight v Gaunt (1883) 22 Ch D 727 Schnabel v Lui [2002] NSWSC 15 Swain Investments Ltd v Danumet Pty Ltd and GR Walker (Cole J, unreported, 5 May 1989) Thune & Anor v London Properties & Anor [1990] 1 WLR 562 Yoon v Song [2000] NSWSC 1147 DECISION : 1. Within 28 days from the date of this order the plaintiff is to provide security for the defendant's costs in these proceedings in the sum of AUD $300,000 in a form acceptable to the Registrar and that the plaintiff's action be stayed until provision of such security.; 2. The plaintiff is to pay the defendant's costs of this application.; 3. The matter is stood over for mention in the Registrar's Defamation Directions List on 20 September 2002.