Heptonstall v Gaskin & Ors [2004] NSWSC 80

New South Wales Supreme Court

CITATION : Heptonstall v Gaskin & Ors [2004] NSWSC 80 revised - 30/03/2004 HEARING DATE(S) : 18/02/04 JUDGMENT DATE : 26 March 2004

JUDGMENT OF : Whealy J at 1 DECISION : 1. The appeal is dismissed and the orders made by Master Harrison are confirmed. Paragraphs 35 to 37 inclusive of the plaintiff's amended statement of claim are stuck out. 2. Paragraphs 32 to 34 inclusive of the plaintiff's amended statement of claim are struck out. 3. I grant leave to the plaintiff to make an application to amend further its statement of claim in relation to implied terms of the contract between the plaintiff and the third defendant. 4. I grant liberty to apply on 3 day's notice. 5. I reserve the question of costs.

Teaching Services Act 1980 Supreme Court Rules LEGISLATION CITED : Teaching Services (Education Teaching Service) Regulation 1994 Employment Rights Act 1996 Industrial Relations Act 1971 Children's Act 1989 Sullivan v Moody; Thompson v Connon (2001) 207 CLR 562 General Steel Industries Inc v Commissioner for Railways (NSW) (1964) 112 CLR 125 State of New South Wales v Paige (2002) NSWCA 235 Ziems v Prothonotary of the Supreme Court of New South Wales (1957) 97 CLR 279 at 286 Prothonotary of the Supreme Court of New South Wales v Pangallo (1993) 67 A Crim R 77 Re; Maraj (a Legal Practitioner) (1995) 15 WAR 12 Webster v Lampard (1993) 177 CLR 598 NRMA Insurance Limited v A. W. Edwards Pty Ltd (NSWCA 11 November 1994) Esanda Finance Corporation Ltd v Peat Marwick Hungerfords (1997) 188 CLR 241 at 271 and 293 CASES CITED : Sidebottom v Cureton (1937) 54 WN (NSW) 88 Bank of New South Wales v Murray (1963) 80 WN (NSW) 272 Spellson v George (1992) 26 NSWLR 666 per Young AJA Wyong Council v Shirt (1980) 146 CLR 40 Reynolds v Katoomba RSL All Services Club Ltd (2001) 53 NSWLR 43 Preston v Star City Pty Ltd (1999) NSWSC 1273 per Wood CJ at CL at para 37 Malik v BCCI (1998) AC 21 Johnson v Unisys Ltd (2003) 1 AC 518 Gogay v Hertfordshire County Council (2000) IRLR 703 McCabe v Cornwall County Council (2003) IRLR 87 Addis v Gramophone Co [1909] AC 488 Gregory Heptonstall - Plaintiff PARTIES : Brian Gaskin - 1st Defendant Sharlene Hutcherson - 2nd Defendant State of New South Wales - Third Defendant FILE NUMBER(S) : SC 20239/00 COUNSEL : Mr B. Gross QC; Mr Mark J. Walsh - Plaintiff Mr P. Menzies QC; Mr R. Weinstein - 3rd Defendant SOLICITORS : MacMahon Associates - Plaintiff I. V. Knight -Crown Solicitor - 3rd Defendant