NSW Caselaw
Reported Decision : 49 ACSR 612 (2004) 22 ACLC 931
New South Wales Court of Appeal
CITATION : KARL SULEMAN ENTERPRIZES PTY. LIMITED (In Liquidation) ACN 090 895 364 (Appellant)BABANOUR (Respondent) [2004] NSWCA 214 HEARING DATE(S) : 19/04/2004 JUDGMENT DATE : 28 June 2004
JUDGMENT OF : Spigelman CJ at 1; Beazley JA at 2; Santow JA at 75 DECISION : 1. Appeal allowed; 2. Direct the appellant to file any amended pleading within 28 days; 3. The respondent is to pay the appellant's costs of the Notice of Motion dated 7 March 2003 before Windeyer J and is to pay 50% of the appellant's costs of the appeal
CATCHWORDS : PLEADING - Strike-out - Dismissal - Leave to replead. - DEFENCE - Illegality - Unclean Hands. - ILLEGALITY - Whether statute intended that contracts entered into as part of an unregistered scheme are illegal - Unlawful conduct no bar to bringing proceedings. - EQUITY - Equitable defence - Doctrine of unclean hands - Party who offends principle may wash hands of the impropriety. Banking Act 1959 (Cth) Bankruptcy Act 1966 (Cth) LEGISLATION CITED : Corporations Act 2001 (Cth) Crimes Act (1914) (Cth) Supreme Court Act 1970 (Cth) Abignano & Anor. v. Wenkart (unreported FC of FCA 13 November 1998) Barnes v. Addy (1874) 43 LJ Ch 513 Beresford's case [1938] AC 586 Cleaver's case (1892) 1 QB 147 Fitzgerald v. Leonhardt (1997) 189 CLR 215 CASES CITED : Harry Parker Ltd. v. Mason [1940] 2 KB 590 Khoury v. Government Insurance Office (NSW) (1984) 165 CLR 622 Marshall Futures Limited v. Marshall [1992] 1 NZLR 316 Nelson v. Nelson (1995) 184 CLR 538 Sargent v. ASL Developments Ltd. 131 CLR 634 Yango Pastoral Co. Pty. Limited v. First Chicago Australia Ltd. (1978) 139 CLR 410 PARTIES : KARL SULEMAN ENTERPRIZES PTY. LIMITED (In Liquidation) ACN 090 895 364 (Appellant) SAM BABANOUR (Respondent) FILE NUMBER(S) : CA 40567/03 COUNSEL : J. Thomson/C. Wood (Appellant) R. Angyal/N. Obrart (Respondent) SOLICITORS : Coudert Brothers (Appellant) Keith Hurst & Associates (Respondent)
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