Labraga v Pomfret & Ors [2005] NSWSC 654

New South Wales Supreme Court

CITATION : Labraga v Pomfret & Ors [2005] NSWSC 654

HEARING DATE(S) : 10/06/2005

JUDGMENT DATE : 7 July 2005

JURISDICTION : Equity

JUDGMENT OF : McDougall J at 1

DECISION : See para [73] of judgment.

CATCHWORDS : PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE - discretion to set aside or vary orders made in absence of party - where provisional liquidator appointed - where orders made one week later to wind up and appointing provisional liquidator as liquidator - whether notice of application for winding up order given - whether defendant's failure to appear deliberate - whether circumstances had changed between appointment provisional liquidator and application for winding up order - whether company insolvent so that setting aside winding up order futile - whether winding up order ought to be set aside - nature of discretion to vary or set aside winding up order - whether discretion ought to be exercised.

Corporations Act 2001 LEGISLATION CITED : Income Tax Assessment Act 1936

Cameron v Cole (1944) 68 CLR 571 George Ward Steel Pty Ltd v Kizkot Pty Ltd (1989) 15 ACLR 464 Jones v Dunkel (1959) 101 CLR 298 CASES CITED : Labraga v Pomfret [2005] NSWSC 490 Lane Cove Council v Geebung Polo Club Pty Ltd [No 2] (2002) 41 ACSR 15 Re Rick Wilson and Co Pty Ltd (1982) 7 ACLR 354 Registrar of Aboriginal Corporations v Murnkurni Women's Aboriginal Corporation (1995) 58 FCR 125

Julio Cesar Labraga & Ors (Plaintiffs) Phillip Edward Pomfret & Ors (Defendants)

PARTIES :

FILE NUMBER(S) : SC 2063/2005

A Rogers (for the Plaintiffs) COUNSEL : G K Burton SC (for the 1st Defendant)