Landmark Building Developments Pty Limited v Toyama Pty Limited & Ors, Parramatta Design and Developments Pty Limited v Landmark Building Developments Pty Limited and Ors [2004] NSWSC 1103

New South Wales Supreme Court

CITATION : Landmark Building Developments Pty Limited v Toyama Pty Limited & Ors, Parramatta Design and Developments Pty Limited v Landmark Building Developments Pty Limited and Ors [2004] NSWSC 1103 HEARING DATE(S) : 1/11/04, 3/11/04, 4/11/04 JUDGMENT DATE : 10 November 2004

JURISDICTION: Equity Division Commercial List JUDGMENT OF : Brownie AJ DECISION : Proceedings permanently stayed as an abuse of process

CATCHWORDS : Issue estoppel - Privity as between predecessors and successors in title - Abuse of process - Proceedings staged so as to prevent possibility that one judgment will contradict another judgment LEGISLATION CITED : Conveyancing Act 1919 Bigelow v Old Dominion Copper Mining and Smelting Co (1912) 225 US 111 Concrete Pty Ltd v Parramatta Design and Developments Pty Ltd [2004] FCA 1312 Gleeson v J Whipple & Co Ltd [1977] 1 WLR 510 Jones v Dunkel (1959) 101 CLR 298 Ladkarn Holdings Ltd v Summit Property Developments Ltd (1991) 32 Con LR 66 CASES CITED : North West Water Ltd v Binnie & Partners [1990] 3 All ER 547 Partridge v McIntosh & Sons Ltd (1933) 49 CLR 453 Ramsay v Pigram (1968) 118 CLR 271 Reichel v Magrath (1889) 14 App Cas 665 Secretary of State for Trade and Industry v Bairstow [2004] Ch 1 State Bank of New South Wales Ltd v Alexander Stenhouse Ltd (1997) Aust Torts Reports 81-423 Trawl Industries of Australia Pty Ltd (in liq) v Effem Foods Pty Ltd (1992) 108 ALR 335 Landmark Building Developments Pty Limited (Plaintiff 50099/03, First Defendant 50172/03) Toyama Pty Limited (First Defendant 50099/03, Second Defendant 50172/03) PARTIES : Jeanette Haviland (Second Defendant 50099/03, Third Defendant 50172/03) Kevin James Rix (Third Defendant 50099/03, Fourth Defendant 50172/03) Parramatta Design and Developments Pty Limited (Plaintiff 50172/03) FILE NUMBER(S) : SC 50099/03; 50172/03 Mr B Donovan QC, Mr T Hall (Landmark Building Developments Pty Limited) COUNSEL : Mr M Neil QC, Mr R Bell (Toyama Pty Limited, Mrs Haviland, Mr Rix) Ms Thornton (Parramatta Design and Developments Pty Limited) Proctor & Associates (Landmark Building Developments Pty Limited) SOLICITORS : Cameron Gillingham Boyd (Toyama Pty Limited, Mrs Haviland, Mr Rix) Mark Rahme & Associates (Parramatta Design and Developments Pty Limited)