Queanbeyan Leagues Club Ltd v Poldune Pty Ltd [2001] NSWSC 831

New South Wales Supreme Court

CITATION : Queanbeyan Leagues Club Ltd v Poldune Pty Ltd [2001] NSWSC 831 CURRENT JURISDICTION: Equity FILE NUMBER(S) : SC 3418/96 HEARING DATE(S) : 21 September 2001 JUDGMENT DATE : 21 September 2001

Queanbeyan Leagues Club Limited (P) GIO Australia Holdings Limited (D2) PARTIES : M J Armstrong (D14) GIO Personal Investment Services Limited (D15) Marshall Marks Kennedy (XD1) JUDGMENT OF : Hamilton J

A Radojev (P) COUNSEL : No appearances (Ds & XD1) Mr Hahn, Solicitor, as city agent for subpoenaed party Collaery & Colquhoun (P) SOLICITORS : Barker Gosling (D2 & 15) Tress Cocks & Maddox (D14) Phillips Fox (XD1) CATCHWORDS : PROFESSIONS AND TRADES [170] - Lawyers - Liens - Possessory lien - Incidents of lien - Preservation of lien - Change of solicitors - Documents required for continued conduct of proceedings. Bennett & Co v CLC Corporation (2001) 37 ACSR 96 Bolster v McCallum (1966) 85 WN (Pt 1) (NSW) 281 Gamlen Chemical Co (UK) Ltd [1980] 1 WLR 614 CASES CITED : In the Marriage of Rhode; Borthwick, Butler and Yee intervening (1983) 9 Fam LR 159 Jankowski v Mastoris SCNSW Hodgson J 19 September 1995 unreported Major Projects Pty Ltd v Sibmark Pty Ltd SCNSW McLelland J 19 February 1992 unreported Cordery on Solicitors (8th ed, 1988) 245 - 247 Riley's New South Wales Solicitors Manual [10,520] DECISION : Access granted to documents subpoenaed from solicitor on basis that they and all copies will be returned to solicitor when litigation determined.