Down to Earth Spring Water & Ors v Mitrofanis Demetrius Nikolaidis & Leon Nikolaidis trading as MD Mikolaidis & Co [No. 2] [2002] NSWSC 551

New South Wales Supreme Court

CITATION : Down to Earth Spring Water & Ors v Mitrofanis Demetrius Nikolaidis & Leon Nikolaidis trading as MD Mikolaidis & Co [No. 2] [2002] NSWSC 551 FILE NUMBER(S) : SC 20928/97 HEARING DATE(S) : 19/6/02 JUDGMENT DATE : 26 June 2002

Down to Earth Spring Water (1st Plaintiff) PARTIES : Nilbrook Pty Limited (2nd Plainitff) Four MJ Pty Limited (3rd Plaintiff) Mitrofanis Demetrius Nikolaidis & Leon Nikolaidis Trading as MD Nikolaidis & Co (Defendant) JUDGMENT OF : Bell J at 1

COUNSEL : Mr T. A. Alexis / Ms E. Champion (1st, 2nd, 3rd Plaintiffs) Mr P. M. Wood (Defendant) SOLICITORS : Hazan Hollander (1st, 2nd, 3rd Plaintiffs) Henry Davis York (Defendant) CATCHWORDS : Costs judgment LEGISLATION CITED : Supreme Court Rules 1970 Charlie Brown Pty Ltd v Green (SCNSW), McLelland CJ in Eq, 3 July 1995, unreported Donnelly v Edelsten (1994) 121 ALR 333 CASES CITED : Dr Martens Australia Ltd v Figgins Holdings Pty Ltd (No. 2) [2000] FCA [17] Multicon Engineering Pty Ltd v Federal Airports Corporation (1996) 138 ALR 425 Prebble v Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 11 July 1997 NSWSC, unreported, BC9703240 DECISION : The defendant pay the plaintiffs' costs of the proceedings to date, such costs to be paid on an indemnity basis from 16 November 2001, with leave to have those costs assessed and paid forthwith

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF NEW SOUTH WALES COMMON LAW DIVISION

BELL J

Wednesday 26 June 2002

20928/97 Down to Earth Spring Water & Ors v Mitrofanis Demetrius NIKOLAIDIS & Leon NIKOLAIDIS trading as MD Nikolaidis & Co [No. 2]