NSW Caselaw
New South Wales Court of Appeal
CITATION: Panagiotopoulos v Rajendram & Anor [2005] NSWCA 58
HEARING DATE(S): 10/03/2005
JUDGMENT DATE: 6 April 2005
JUDGMENT OF: Mason P at 1; Hodgson JA at 3; Pearlman AJA at 4
DECISION: 1. The appeal is upheld.
CATCHWORDS: PRACTICE and PROCEDURE - Dismissal of application for adjournment - dismissal of proceedings for failure to comply with rules - whether Health Care Complaints Commission peer review report available for tender - whether appellant's case hopeless and incurably hopeless - whether trial judge's discretion miscarried by reason of error - whether self executing order for dismissal appropriate.
District Court Rules 1973 LEGISLATION CITED: Health Care Complaints Act 1993
Elliott v Bickerstaff (1999) 48 NSWLR 214 General Steel Industries Inc v Commissioner of Railways (NSW) & Ors (1964) 112 CLR 125 CASES CITED: Minogue v Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (1999) 84 FCR 438 House v The King (1936) 55 CLR 499
Periklis Panagiotopoulos Appellant PARTIES: Dr N Rajendram Respondents Dr Hugh Carmalt
FILE NUMBER(S): CA 40142/2005
Ms J. Merkel Applicant COUNSEL: Mr S Donaldson SC Respondent
SOLICITORS: Blake Dawson Waldron Respondent
LOWER COURT JURISDICTION: District Court
LOWER COURT FILE NUMBER(S): DC 3158/03
LOWER COURT JUDICIAL OFFICER: Williams DCJ
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF NEW SOUTH WALES COURT OF APPEAL CA 40142/04
MASON P HODGSON JA PEARLMAN AJA Wednesday, 6 April, 2005 PANAGIOTOPOULOS v RAJENDRAM & ANOR Judgment
We try to embed the page this law was scraped from. If the site blocks framing, you still get the link and a local excerpt.
Last checked with source on —
Checking whether the official page can be embedded…
Plain-English simplify of this law: a short summary, key points, and both sides of the argument. Generated on first view via Replicate, then cached. Vote on what helps your study.
No study brief is cached for this law yet. Sign up to generate a plain-English brief.
Sign up to generate