Roach & Ors v Page & Ors (No.11) [2003] NSWSC 907

New South Wales Supreme Court

CITATION : Roach & Ors v Page & Ors (No.11) [2003] NSWSC 907 HEARING DATE(S) : 4-8, 11-14, 18-21, 25-29 August 2003 1, 5, 9-12, 15-17 September 2003 JUDGMENT DATE : 10 October 2003 JURISDICTION: Common Law JUDGMENT OF : Sperling J at 1 DECISION : See paragraph 3 of the judgment.

CATCHWORDS : Evidence - Evidence Act 1995, s136 - meaning of "unfairly prejudicial" - where maker of representation not called - where ss 60 or 77 operate LEGISLATION CITED : Evidence Act 1995, s59, s60, s63 s64, s66, s69, s70, s76, s77, s135, s136, s137 ACCC v Australian Safeway Stores Pty Ltd [1999] FCA 1269 Clark (2001) 123 A Crim R 506 Commonwealth of Australia v McLean (1996) 41 NSWLR 389 Coyne v ANI Corporation Ltd (Carruthers AJ, 7 April 1998, unreported) Dann [2000] NSWCCA 185 GAC (Court of Criminal Appeal, 1 April 1997, unreported) Gordon (bankrupt) Official Trustee in Bankruptcy v Pike (Federal Court of Australia, Beaumont J, 1 September 1995, unreported) CASES CITED : Kaperonis v GIO of NSW (Badgery-Parker J, 2 February 1996, unreported) Ordukaya v Hicks [2000] NSWCA 180 Papakosmas (1999) 196 CLR 297 Quick v Stoland Pty Ltd (1998) 87 FCR 371 Ringrow Pty Ltd v BP Australia Ltd [2003] FCA 933 Sing [2002] NSWCCA 20 Toki [2000] NSWSC 999 Vitali v Stachnik [2001] NSWSC 303 Walter Edward Roach Sydtech Pty Ltd PARTIES : Winnote Pty Ltd Brian John Downey Page, Peter Eustace Hollingdale, Roderick McLeod, Warren Francis Asprey, Ian Farley Hutchinson, Brian Edmond Thornton, Thomas Owen Jones, Geza Francis Kim Santow, Robert Colin Nicholls, James Henry Graham, Peter Short, Phillip Thornton Taylor, Bruce Kelvin Cutler, David Myles Bennett, John Charles Mulally, Kevin William Broadley, James Michael Page, Peter John Carney, Patricia Helen Brown, Brian John McFadyen, Robert Andrew Channon, Peter John Perry, Douglas Michael Franc, Peter Stanley Ridout, Michael John Gray, Howard Keith Chillingworth Steele, Julian Block, Elizabeth A Nosworthy, Edward Joseph Wright, Claire Grose, John Hugh Clifford Colvin, Bryan David Weir, George Thomas Forster, John Lindsay Arthur, Roy Merrill Randall, Anthony Jospeh Muratore, Sir Clarence Waldemar Harders, Peter Campbell Church, Terence Michael Burke, Richard Stuart Gray, John Kevin O'Sullivan, Gregory Stephen Pearce, Rebecca Anne Davies, John Martin Green, Gordon David Cooper, Pamela Gaye Edwards, Stephen David Chipkin, Yukio Hayashi, Lucy Kathleen Farrell, Paul Ashley Cooper, Graham John Kelly, Barry Leon Barker, Philip John Christensen, Fabian Gleeson, Helen Irwin Wright, Iain Ronald Jones, Shaun Gerard McGushin, Mark Russell Cohen, Joanne Christine Seve, Amanda Jane Harkness, John Pierce Angus, Cornelius Daniel Neil Griffin, Murray John Dearberg, Marc Sandford Hutchinson, Timothy Mark Hirshman, Leon Pasternak, Kevin Alan Lewis, Donald Bruce Robinson, Michael Perrin Ryland, Richard Randolph Pearson, Geoffrey Howard Levy, Geoffrey Alan McLellan, David Jacob Hammerschlag, Gavin Terence Bell, John Gilbert Tabernar, Michael John Back, Georgina Margaret Gray, Raymond Unyuen Ming Kwok, Michael Orlov, Bettie Anne McNee - t/a Freehill Hollingdale & Page Brian David Kewley, Keith Alfred Robert Skinner, Jeffrey Stephen Kiddle, Denis James Davies, Davied Leonard Bailey, Martin Moule Hudson, Colin George Polites, Marcus Kirkland Fairbairn, John Alfred Emerson, James Macklin Pfeiffer, Russell David Allen, Peter Algernon Franc Hay, Paul Montgomery, John Balfour Blanch, Richard Geoffrey Eager, Peter Farley Mitchell, Peter Mark Butler, Simon Anthony Yencken, Rebecca Anne Davies, Paul Ashley Cooper, Peter William Stawell, Stephen Marcus Stern, John Lindsay Cooper, Graeme James Smith, Iain Ronald Jones, Rayne De Gruchy, Wayne McMaster, Graeme Ross Watson, Maxwell Douglas Ralph Cameron, Frank Barry, Irene Helen Zeitler - t/a Freehill Hollingdale & Page FILE NUMBER(S) : SC 20950/97 COUNSEL : Mr S Rares SC with Mr A Bell & Mr D Meltz for the Plaintiffs Mr A Meagher SC with Mr M Darke for the Defendants SOLICITORS : Maurice Blackburn Cashman for the Plaintiffs Allens Arthur Robinson for the Defendants