Metcash Trading Ltd & Anor v. Hourigan's IGA Umina Pty Ltd & Ors [2003] NSWSC 326

New South Wales Supreme Court

CITATION : Metcash Trading Ltd & Anor v. Hourigan's IGA Umina Pty Ltd & Ors [2003] NSWSC 326 HEARING DATE(S) : 15 April, 2003 JUDGMENT DATE : 16 April 2003 JURISDICTION: Equity Division JUDGMENT OF : Palmer J DECISION : Interlocutory injunction granted.

CATCHWORDS : INTERLOCUTORY INJUNCTION - Whether serious questions to be tried - complex legal issues - factual issues - balance of convenience - hardship to defendant if injunction granted would be result of defendant's own wrongdoing. - Conveyancing Act 1919 (NSW) - s.118 LEGISLATION CITED : - Real Property Act 1900 (NSW) - Trade Practices Act 1974 (Cth) - s.52, s.53A, s.80, s.87 - Carlton & United Breweries Ltd v Tooth & Co Ltd (unrep., 14 February 1990, NSWSC, Waddell J) CASES CITED : - Kolback Securities Ltd v Epoch Mining NL (1987) 8 NSWLR 533 - DC Thomson & Co Ltd v Deakin [1952] Ch 646 Metcash Trading Limited - First Plaintiff Jewel Food Stores Pty Ltd - Second Plaintiff Hourigan's IGA Umina Pty Ltd - First Defendant PARTIES : Peter John Hourigan - Second Defendant John Hourigan - Third Defendant Mark Hourigan - Fourth Defendant Bi-Lo Pty Ltd - Fifth Defendant Coles Myer Property Developments Ltd - Sixth Defendant FILE NUMBER(S) : SC 2278/03 G.C. Lindsay SC - Plaintiffs COUNSEL : T.P. Duggan - 1st to 4th Defendants F.M. Douglas QC, W.G. Muddle - 5th & 6th Defendants Landerer & Co - Plaintiffs SOLICITORS : Watson Mangioni - 1st to 4th Defendants Deacons - 5th & 6th Defendants