Clavel v Savage & 4 Ors [2004] NSWSC 292

New South Wales Supreme Court

CITATION : Clavel v Savage & 4 Ors [2004] NSWSC 292 HEARING DATE(S) : 17 March 2004 JUDGMENT DATE : 15 April 2004 JURISDICTION: Common Law JUDGMENT OF : Master Harrison DECISION : (1) Leave be granted to the plaintiffs to file and serve a FASC within 21 days; (2) The notice of motion filed by the first and second defendants dated 16 October 2003 and the notice of motion filed by the third defendant on 9 October 2003 are dismissed; (3) The defendants are to pay the plaintiffs' costs of the motions except the plaintiffs are to pay the costs thrown away by the amendments to the ASC.

CATCHWORDS : Summary judgment, malicious prosecution, abuse of process, assault, false imprisonment, emotional distress LEGISLATION CITED : Law Reform (Vicarious Liabilkity) Act 1983 (NSW) Supreme Court Rules - Part 15 r 26 Air Services Australia v Zarb (unreported, NSWCA, 26 August 1998) Attorney General (NSW) v Spautz [2001] NSWSC 66 Battista v Cooper (1976) 14 SASR 225 Bielitski v Obadiak (1922) 65 DLR 627 Brown v Hawkes (1891) 2 QB 718 Bunyan v Jordan (1937) 57 CLR 1 Butler v Simmons Crowley and Galvin [1999] Commomwealth Life Assurance Society Ltd v Brain (1934-1935) 53 CLR 343 Dey v Victorian Railways Commissioners (1949) 78 CLR 62 Dulisu v White & Sons [1901] 2 KB 669 Frost v The Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of New South Wales [2001] NSWSC 639 General Steel Industries Inc v Commissioner for Railways (NSW) (1964) 112 CLR 125 CASES CITED : Johnson v The Commonwealth (1927) 27 SR (NSW) 133 Mailau v Riordan [2001] ACTSC 13 Mitchell v John Heine and Son Ltd (1938) 38 SR (NSW) 466 Moran v Moran Nos 1, 2, 3, 6 & 9) (2000) ATR 81-554, 555, 556, 557 & 558) Northern Territory of Australia v Mengel (1995) 195 CLR 307 Nye v State of New South Wales & Ors (2004) Aust Tort Reports 81-725; [2003] NSWSC 1212 Pham v Lawson (1997) 68 SASR 124 Purdy v Woznesensky [1937] 2 WWR 116 Stevenson v Basham [1922] NZLR 225 Trobridge v Hardy (1955) 94 CLR 147 Webster & Anor v Lampard (1993) 177 CLR 598 Wilkinson v Townton (1897) 2 QB 57 Williams v Spautz (1991-19992) 174 CLR 509 Jean Luc Calvel (First Plaintiff)