NSW Caselaw
New South Wales Supreme Court
CITATION : IVF Australia Pty Ltd v Palantrou Pty Ltd [2005] NSWSC 810
HEARING DATE(S) : 03/08/05
JUDGMENT DATE : 3 August 2005
JURISDICTION : Equity Division
JUDGMENT OF : Young CJ in Eq
DECISION : Limited injunction granted.
CATCHWORDS : EQUITY [335][338]- Interlocutory injunction- Plaintiff runs in vitro fertilisation medical clinic- Legal relationship between clinic and defendant doctors unclear- Doctors established rival clinic- Doctors using patient information taken from clinic's database- Plaintiff asserts misuse of information on various bases- Test whether plaintiff has arguable case only just satisfied- Much of damage to plaintiff, if any, already occurred- In circumstances limited injunction granted to restrain defendants using information for certain purposes.
Health Records and Information Privacy Act 2002 LEGISLATION CITED : Privacy Act 1988 (Cth)
Beck v Montana Constructions Pty Ltd (1963) 80 WN (NSW) 1578 Breen v Williams (1996) 186 CLR 71 Desktop Marketing Systems Pty Ltd v Telstra Corporation Ltd (2002) 119 FCR 491 CASES CITED : Health Services For Men Pty Ltd v D'Souza (2000) 48 NSWLR 448 John Fairfax & Sons Pty Ltd v Australian Consolidated Press (1959) 60 SR (NSW) 413 Ng v Clyde Securities Ltd [1976] NSWLR 443 Torpey Vander Have Pty Ltd v Mass Constructions Pty Ltd (2002) 55 IPR 542
IVF Australia Pty Ltd (P) Palantrou Pty Limited (D1) David Knight (D2) PARTIES : Kim Matthews (D3) Georgiana Tang (D4) John Tyler (D5)
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