NSW Caselaw
New South Wales Supreme Court
CITATION : New Cap Reinsurance Corporation Ltd v General Cologne Re Australia Ltd (No 2) [2005] NSWSC 276
HEARING DATE(S) : 10/03/05
JUDGMENT DATE : 4 April 2005
Equity Division JURISDICTION : Corporations List
JUDGMENT OF : Young CJ in Eq
DECISION : Limited order for indemnity costs made.
CATCHWORDS : PROCEDURE [574]- Costs- Indemnity costs- Commercial litigation- Bad pleadings- Significance of English solicitors acting to great extent for successful party.
Colgate Palmolive Co v Cussons Pty Ltd (1993) 46 FCR 225 Elders Trustee & Executor Co Ltd v Herbert (Estate of) (1996) 111 NTR 25 FAI General Insurance Co Ltd v Burns (1996) 9 ANZ Insurance Cases 61-384 Knight v FP Special Assets Ltd (1992) 174 CLR 178 Maggbury Pty Ltd v Hafele Australia Pty Ltd (No 2) [2002] 1 Qd R 183 CASES CITED : McCullie v Butler [1962] 2 QB 309 Mitchell v Mitchell (1971) 19 FLR 100 Petrovski v Radin [2000] NSWSC 323 Ragata Developments Pty Ltd v Westpac Banking Corp (Federal Court of Australia, 5.3.1993, unreported) Re Pan Pharmaceuticals Ltd (2004) 48 ACSR 681
New Cap Reinsurance Corporation Limited (P1) John Raymond Gibbons (P2) PARTIES : General Cologne Re Australia Limited (D1) Guy Carpenter & Company Pty Limited (D2) Guy Carpenter & Company Limited (D3)
FILE NUMBER(S) : SC 2371/02
S G Finch (P) COUNSEL : M A Pembroke SC and L P Menzies (D2)
Henry Davis York (P) SOLICITORS : TressCox (D2)
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