Colosseum Investment Holdings Pty Ltd & Anor v Vanguard Logistics Services Pty Ltd & Ors [2005] NSWSC 803

New South Wales Supreme Court

CITATION : Colosseum Investment Holdings Pty Ltd & Anor v Vanguard Logistics Services Pty Ltd & Ors [2005] NSWSC 803

HEARING DATE(S) : 28 April, 2005

JUDGMENT DATE : 10 August 2005

Equity Division JURISDICTION : Admiralty List

JUDGMENT OF : Palmer J

DECISION : Court has jurisdiction; stay refused.

CATCHWORDS : PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE - JURISDICTION - FORUM NON CONVENIENS - STAY - Proceedings in New South Wales between companies incorporated in New South Wales arising out of damage to goods occurring in the United States of America - US Corporation joined as Second Defendant - New South Wales Defendant cross claims against Chinese and United States corporations - whether NSW companies suffered damage in New South Wales in the form of economic loss by reason of being incorporated and having principal places of business in New South Wales - whether New South Wales Supreme Court is clearly inappropriate forum to try all issues.

- Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1946 (NSW) - s.5 LEGISLATION CITED : - Supreme Court Rules 1970 (NSW) - Pt 8 r.2, Pt 10 r.1A(1), r.2(1), r.6A, Pt 11 r.8(1)(h)

- Agar v Hyde (2000) 201 CLR 552 - Brix Neilsen v Oceaneering Australia Pty Ltd [1982] 2 NSWLR 173 - Challenor v Douglas [1983] 2 NSWLR 405 - CSR Ltd v Cigna Insurance Australia Ltd (1997) 189 CLR 345 - Darrell Lea Chocolate Shops Pty Ltd v Spanish-Polish Shipping Co Inc ("the Katowice II") (1990) 25 NSWLR 568 - Flaherty v Girgis (1985) 4 NSWLR 248 CASES CITED : - Henry v Henry (1996) 185 CLR 571 - Maclaine Watson & Co Private Ltd v Bing Chen [1983] 1 NSWLR 163 - Oceanic Sun Line Special Shipping Co Inc v Fay (1988) 165 CLR 197 - Regie Nationale des Usines Renault SA v Zhang (2002) 210 CLR 491 - Voth v Manildra Flour Mills Pty Ltd (1990) 171 CLR 538 - Westpac Banking Corporation v Commonwealth Steel Co Ltd [1983] 1 NSWLR 735