JE & EJ Investments P/L v Masselos Adcom Holdings P/L v Masselos & Anor [2001] NSWSC 844

Reported Decision : (2002) NSW ConvR 55-998

New South Wales Supreme Court

CITATION : JE & EJ Investments P/L v Masselos Adcom Holdings P/L v Masselos & Anor [2001] NSWSC 844 CURRENT JURISDICTION: Common Law FILE NUMBER(S) : SC 11261/2001; 13002/2000 HEARING DATE(S) : 27 August 2001 JUDGMENT DATE : 27 September 2001

11261/2001 - JE & EJ Investments Pty Limited (Plaintiff) Katherine Masselos (Defendant) PARTIES : 13002/2000 - Adcom Holdings Pty Ltd (Plaintiff) Steve James Masselos (First Defendant) Katherine Masselos (Second Defendant) JUDGMENT OF : Master Harrison

Mr M W Young (Plaintiffs in both matters) COUNSEL : Mr N A Confus (Defendants in both matters) R L Kremnizer & Co (Plaintiff in both matters SOLICITORS : P J Ellis (Defendants in both matters) CATCHWORDS : Summary judgment - notice under s 92 Conveyancing Act 1999 - declaration as to costs Supreme Court Rules LEGISLATION CITED : Real Property Act 1900 (NSW) Conveyancing Act 1919 (NSW) Property Law Act 1952 (NZ) Air Services Australia v Zarb (NSWSC unreported, 26 August 1998) Dey v Victorian Railway Commissioners (1948-49) 78 CLR 62 General Steel Industries Inc v Commissioner for Railways (1964) 112 CLR 125 CASES CITED : Webster & Anor v Lampard (1993) 177 CLR 598 Kater v Kater (No 1) (1963) NSWR 1667 Feickert v Perpetual Trustees Estate & Agency Co of NZ Ltd [1981] 2 NZLR 11 Kennedy v Cheesman (1923) GLR 577 Wallace McLean Bawden & Partners Nominees Ltd v Fish [1980] 1 NZLR 540 DECISION : (1) The plaitiff's notice of motion in proceedings 11261/2001 is dismissed; (2) The plaintiff is to pay the defendant's costs; (3) In proceedings 13002/2000, the defendant is to pay the plaintiff's costs of the proceedings except both parties are to pay their own costs of the motion.