Roach v Winnote Pty Ltd; Leslie & Anor - Applicants [2006] NSWSC 231

Reported Decision : 57 ACSR 138

New South Wales Supreme Court

CITATION : Roach v Winnote Pty Ltd; Leslie & Anor - Applicants [2006] NSWSC 231

HEARING DATE(S) : 31/03/06

JUDGMENT DATE : 5 April 2006

JURISDICTION : Equity Division Corporations List

JUDGMENT OF : Barrett J

DECISION : Amended interlocutory process dismissed with costs

CATCHWORDS : CORPORATIONS - statutory derivative action - leave previously granted for shareholder to represent company in defending certain litigation and pursuing cross claim - certain undertakings given to court by successful applicant and associate upon grant of leave to represent company - undertakings intended to protect company in respect of costs of the other litigation - other parties to the other litigation obtain therein costs order against company - those parties seek to be joined as defendants in the proceeding in which leave to represent company previously given - they foreshadow application as such defendants to enforce the undertakings - whether joinder should be ordered

Corporations Act 2001 (Cth), Part 2F.1A, s.237 LEGISLATION CITED : Supreme Court (Corporations) Rules 1999, rules 1.3(2), 2.13(2) Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 2005, rules 6.24(1)

Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Ltd v Carpenter (unreported, NSWCA, 20 May 2005) Carpenter v Pioneer Park Pty Ltd (2004) 186 FLR 104 27 Carpenter v Pioneer Park Pty Ltd (2004) 211 ALR 457 Charlton v Baber (2003) 47 ACSR 31 Fiduciary Ltd v Morningstar Research Pty Ltd (2005) 53 ACSR 732 CASES CITED : McLean v Lake Como Venture Pty Ltd [2004] 2 Qd R 280 Metyor v Queensland Electronic Switching Pty Ltd [2003] 1 Qd R 186 Roach v Winnote Pty Ltd [2001] NSWSC 822 Smits v Roach (2002) 55 NSWLR 166 Smits v Roach (2004) 60 NSWLR 711 Smits v Roach [2004] NSWCA 463 Swansson v R A Pratt Properties Pty Ltd (2002) 42 ACSR 313