Easy Buy International Pty Limited v Macquaire Goodman Property Services Pty Limited & Ors [2006] NSWSC 148

New South Wales Supreme Court

CITATION : Easy Buy International Pty Limited v Macquaire Goodman Property Services Pty Limited & Ors [2006] NSWSC 148

HEARING DATE(S) : 8 March 2006; 9 March 2006

JUDGMENT DATE : 22 March 2006

JUDGMENT OF : Bergin J

DECISION : Injunction granted restraining defendant from taking possession

CATCHWORDS : [LEASES] - whether a permitted use of "warehousing and distribution" includes distribution by sale - definition of "warehouse or distribution centre" in a Local Environmental Plan - whether the plaintiff was in breach of its lease - whether s 129 of the Conveyancing Act 1919 applies to the lease - periodic tenancies - timing of assessment of "term" for the purposes of s 129(6) of the Conveyancing Act 1919 - injunctive relief

Conveyancing Act 1919 Conveyancing and Law of Property Act 1881 (UK) Conveyancing and Law of Property Act 1892 (UK) Conveyancing Act 1915 (Vic) LEGISLATION CITED : Environmental Planning & Assessment Act 1979 Petroleum Retail Marketing Franchise Act 1980 (Cth) Property Law Act 1958 (Vic) Property Law Act 1905 (NZ) Proeperty Law Act 1952 (NZ)

Bateman v Tsaoucis [1960] S. R. (N.S.W.) 682 Dougal v McCarthy [1893] 1 QB 736 Dow Jones & Company Inc v Gutnick (2002) 210 CLR 575 Ex parte Monters Pty Ltd; re Webster [1961] S.R. (N.S.W.) 354 Gill v Wright [1964-5] N.S.W.R. 1500 CASES CITED : Golden Rams Australia Pty Limited v Shteyman & Anor [2000] NSWSC 417 Moglia Holdings Pty Limited v Juneris Pty Limited and the Commonwealth of Australia (1988) 67 LGRA 11 R v Fraser (1965) 52 WWR 712 R v Fraser [1967] SCR 38 Reg v National News Company Limited [1953] OR 533 Right v Darby (1786) 1 T.R. 159 RT & MI Abela Pty Ltd v Esso Australia Ltd (1989) 89 ALR 485