Aarons v Moloney [2005] NSWSC 795

New South Wales Supreme Court

CITATION : Aarons v Moloney [2005] NSWSC 795

HEARING DATE(S) : 4 August 2005

JUDGMENT DATE : 4 August 2005

JURISDICTION : Equity

JUDGMENT OF : Campbell J

DECISION : Proceedings summarily dismissed

CATCHWORDS : PROCEDURE - inferior courts - examination summons in the Local Court - whether implied obligation to use information obtained through that process only for the purpose of the proceedings - PROCEDURE - Supreme Court procedure - consideration of scope of implied obligation concerning information and documents obtained through compulsory pre-trial procedures - PROFESSIONS AND TRADES - lawyers - whether lawyer to be prevented from acting for a judgment creditor in an examination summons on the basis that information so obtained might be used for other proceedings

Local Court (Civil Claims) Rules 1988 LEGISLATION CITED : Supreme Court Rules 1970

Ainsworth v Hanrahan (1992) 25 NSWLR 155 Ampolex Limited v Perpetual Trustee Company (Canberra) Limited (1995) 18 ACSR 218 Brimson v Rocla Concrete Pipes Ltd [1982] 2 NSWLR 937 Central Queensland Cement Pty Ltd v Hardy [1989] 2 QdR 509 Crest Homes PLC v Marks [1987] 1 AC 829 Esso Australia Resources Limited v Plowman (1995) 183 CLR 10 Harman v Secretary of State for the Home Department (1983) 1 AC 280 CASES CITED : Holpitt Pty Ltd v Varimu Pty Ltd (1991) 103 ALR 684 Springfield Nominees Pty Ltd v Bridgelands Securities Ltd (1992) 38 FCR 217 Sweetman v Australian Thoroughbred Principal Finance Pty Limited (Lockhart J, 23 July 1992, unreported) Television Group Limited v Northern Rivers Television Pty Limited (Bainton J, 4 September 1995, unreported) Wellness Pty Ltd v Hamilton-Bond & Ors [2002] NSWSC 1259 Re Winterbottom; Eurostar Pty Ltd (in liquidation) (receivers and managers appointed) & Ors [2003] NSWSC 633 Woolworths Limited v Lawson [2002] NSWSC 985