GE Capital Asset Services & Trading Asia Pacific Pty Ltd v Rocks Excavations & Plant Hire Pty Ltd [2003] NSWSC 99

New South Wales Supreme Court

CITATION : GE Capital Asset Services & Trading Asia Pacific Pty Ltd v Rocks Excavations & Plant Hire Pty Ltd [2003] NSWSC 99 HEARING DATE(S) : 10 and 11 February 2003 JUDGMENT DATE : 28 February 2003 JURISDICTION: Equity Division JUDGMENT OF : Young CJ in Eq DECISION : Verdict for plaintiff in detinue or at its election in contract.

CATCHWORDS : EQUITY [326]- Inadequacy of common law remedies- Chattels- Principles. PROCEDURE [113]- Judgment- Multiple causes of action- Plaintiff to elect after verdict- In default of election tort claim prevails. LEGISLATION CITED : Sale of Goods Act 1923 Supreme Court Act 1970, s 93 Adventure Film Productions Ltd v Tully (Times, 14.10.82) Aristoc Industries Pty Ltd v RA Wenham (Builders) Pty Ltd [1965] NSWR 581 Attorney General v Sheffield Gas Consumers Company (1853) 2 De GM & G 304; 43 ER 119 Avard v Harrison [1986] ASC 55-525 Badische Anilin und Sode Fabrilk v Hickson [1906] AC 419 Bishop v Montague (1601) Cro Eliz 824; 78 ER 1051 Boyce v Grundy (1830) 28 US 377 Boydell v James (1936) 36 SR (NSW) 620 Brown v Dixon (1786) 1 Term Rep 274; 99 ER 1091 Cochrane v Moore (1890) 25 QBD 57 Colls v Home & Colonial Stores Ltd [1904] AC 179 Cooper v Chitty (1756) 1 Burr 28; 97 ER 166 Dougan v Ley (1946) 71 CLR 142 CASES CITED : Doulton Potteries Ltd v Bronotte [1971] 1 NSWLR 591 Evans Marshall & Co Ltd v Bertola SA [1973] 1 WLR 349 Haynes v Hirst (1927) 27 SR (SW) 480 Heavener v Loomes (1924) 34 CLR 306 Howard E Perry & Co Ltd v British Railways Board [1980] 1 WLR 1375 North v Great Northern Railway Co (1860) 2 Giff 64; 66 ER 28 Schering Pty Ltd v Forrest Pharmaceutical Co Pty Ltd [1982] 1 NSWLR 286 Sharrment Pty Ltd v Official Trustee in Bankruptcy (1988) 18 FCR 449 Somerset (Duke) v Cookson (1735) 3 P Wms 390; 24 ER 1114 Southern Cross Pumps & Irrigation Pty Ltd v Nicholls (1995) 39 NSWLR 501 Suttons Motors Pty Ltd v Campbell (1956) 56 SR (NSW) 304 United Australia Ltd v Barclays Bank Ltd [1941] AC 1 Wallwyn v Lee (1803) 9 Ves 24; 32 ER 509 Welby v Rutland (Duke) (1773) 2 Bro 39; 1 ER 778 Wood v Sutcliffe (1851) 2 Sim (NS) 163; 61 ER 303 GE Capital Asset Services & Trading Asia Pacific Pty Limited (P) PARTIES : Rocks Excavations & Plant Hire Pty Limited (D1) Rocks Services Pty Limited (D2) Niel William English (D3) FILE NUMBER(S) : SC 5401/02 COUNSEL : S T White (P) D Brezniak (D) SOLICITORS : Kemp Strang (P)