Collendina Pty Ltd & 4 Ors v Murray Darling Basin Commission & 8 Ors [2006] NSWSC 776

New South Wales Supreme Court

CITATION : Collendina Pty Ltd & 4 Ors v Murray Darling Basin Commission & 8 Ors [2006] NSWSC 776

HEARING DATE(S) : 20 July 2006

JUDGMENT DATE : 4 August 2006

JURISDICTION : Common Law

JUDGMENT OF : Associate Justice Harrison

DECISION : (1) The amended notice of motion field 20 July 2006 is dismissed; (2) The defendants are to file and serve a defence within 14 days; (3) A status conference is to be allocated. Court to notify parties; (4) The defendants are to pay the plaintiffs' costs as agreed or assessed.

CATCHWORDS : Further strike out, dismissal application - water releases from Hume Dam

LEGISLATION CITED : Murray-Darling Basin Act 1992 Uniform Civil Procedure Rules (2005) - Rules 14.28, 15.1, 15.5 & 15.10

Bega Co-operative Society Limited v The Milk Authority of the Australian Capital Territory (unreported 12 May 1992, Federal Court) Bruce v Odhams Press Ltd (1936) 1 KB 697 Charlie Carter Pty Ltd v The Shop, Distributive and Allied Employees' Association of Western Australia (1987) 13 FCR 413 CASES CITED : H 1976 Nominees Pty Ltd v Galli (1979) 40 FLR 242 Pinson v Lloyds and National Provincial Foreign Bank Ltd (1941) 2 KB 72 Ratcliffe v Evans (1892) 2 QB 524 at 532 Swain v Waverley Municipal Council (2005) 220 CLR 517 (2005); 138 LGERA 50; (2005) 213 ALR 249; (2005) 79 ALJR 565; [2005] HCA 4

Collendina Pty Ltd - First Plaintiff Rohan Geoffrey Cranney - Second Plaintiff David Kenneth Cranney - Third Plaintiff Cranney Properties Pty Ltd - Fourth Plaintiff Wongala Holdings Pty Ltd - Fifth Plaintiff