Yeshiva Properties No 1 Pty Ltd v Lubavitch Mazal Pty Ltd [2003] NSWSC 775

New South Wales Supreme Court

CITATION : Yeshiva Properties No 1 Pty Ltd v Lubavitch Mazal Pty Ltd [2003] NSWSC 775 HEARING DATE(S) : 30/07/03 JUDGMENT DATE : 21 August 2003 JURISDICTION: Equity Division JUDGMENT OF : Young CJ in Eq DECISION : Decline to give interlocutory relief at this stage.

CATCHWORDS : PROCEDURE [676] [692] & [741]- Contempt- Injunctions to restrain contempt- When given- Religious pressure brought to bear on litigant may amount to contempt- How far misrepresenting court's final judgment constitutes contempt. Acro (Automation) Ltd v Rex Chainbelt Inc [1971] 1 WLR 1676 Advance (NSW) Insurance Agencies Pty Ltd v Matthews (1989) 166 CLR 606 Arabic Community Business Directory Pty Ltd v Arabic Australian Business Directory Pty Ltd (Young J, 21.3.1996) A-G v Butterworth [1963] QB 696 A-G v Hislop [1991] 1 QB 514 A-G v Times Newspapers Ltd [1974] AC 273 Blunt v Park Lane Hotel Ltd [1942] 2 KB 253 Businessworld Computers Pty Ltd v Australian Telecommunications Commission (1988) 82 ALR 499 Cawood v Green (NSWCA 26.6.1974) Clarkson v Mandarin Club (1998) 90 FCR 356 Commercial Bank of Australia Ltd v Preston [1981] 2 NSWLR 554 Fry v Bray (1959) 1 FLR 366 Harkianakis v Skalkos (1997) 42 NSWLR 22 CASES CITED : MacQueen v Freckleton (1909) 8 CLR 673 Masters v Cameron (1954) 91 CLR 353 North Australian Aboriginal Legal Aid Service Inc v Bradley (2001) 188 ALR 312 Pyneboard Pty Ltd v Trade Practices Commission (1983) 152 CLR 328 R v Dunbabin; Ex parte Williams (1935) 54 CLR 434 R v Lawley (1731) 2 Strange 904; 93 ER 930 R v Rafique [1993] QB 843 Re Ludlow Charities (1837) 2 My & Cr 316; 40 ER 661 Re Mulock (1864) 3 Sw & Tr 599; 164 ER 1407 Re William Thomas Shipping Co Ltd [1930] Ch 368 Reg v Chief Rabbi [1992] 1 WLR 1036 Reg v Martin (1848) 5 Cox CC 356 The St James Evening Post case (1742) 2 Atk 469; 26 ER 683 Tobacco Institute of Australia Ltd v Australian Federation of Consumer Organisations Inc (No 2) (1993) 41 FCR 89 Waterhouse v Australian Broadcasting Corporation (1986) 5 NSWLR 716 Yeshiva Properties No 1 Pty Limited Yeshiva Properties No 2 Pty Limited Yeshiva Properties No 3 Pty Limited PARTIES : Yeshiva Properties No 4 Pty Limited Yeshiva Properties No 5 Pty Limited Yeshiva Properties No 6 Pty Limited (P) Lubavitch Mazal Pty Limited (D) FILE NUMBER(S) : SC 5361/02 COUNSEL : P L G Brereton SC and S J Burchett (P) B R McClintock SC and I D Martindale (D) SOLICITORS : McCabe Terrill (P) Schetzer Brott & Appel (Melbourne (D)