Sunrise Nominees Services & Ors v Westpac & Ors [2006] NSWSC 1326

New South Wales Supreme Court

CITATION : Sunrise Nominees Services & Ors v Westpac & Ors [2006] NSWSC 1326

HEARING DATE(S) : 29/09/06 JURISDICTION : Equity Division

JUDGMENT OF : Brereton J

EX TEMPORE JUDGMENT DATE : 09/29/2006

DECISION : Order for determination of separate question – Declaration that third defendant is not and has not at relevant times been director secretary shareholder or agent of plaintiffs

CATCHWORDS : CORPORATIONS - Meetings – purported notification to ASIC of change of directors, change of registered office, transfer and allotment of shares – no meeting convened – claim to have acted under power of attorney from sole shareholder – no triable defence

Sunrise Nominees Services Pty Ltd ACN 106 590 872 (P1) Sunrise 9 Vine Street Pty Ltd ACN 113 630 336 (P2) Westpac Banking Corporation ACN 007 457 141 (D1) Bendigo Bank Ltd ACN 068 0490178 (D2) Stuart Ashley Davies (D3) Montage Development and Constructions (Australia) Pty Ltd ACN 116 831 415 (D4) Mark John Paradiso (D5) David Goman, Partner as representing himself and all other partners of the firm practising as "BDO Chartered Accountants and Advisers" (D6) Suncorp-Metway Ltd ACN 010 831 722 (D7) PARTIES : Wj Calcott, Mj Gatehouse, DM Geer, L Gorr, GA Hodgkinson, RV Large, H Lassen, AH May, RJ Mole & Others trading as Herbert Geer & Rundle, Lawyers ABN 21 228 101 686 (D8) Australian Securities and Investments Commission Ltd ACN 768 265 615 (D9) National Bank Australia Ltd ACN 004 044 937 (D10) Christopher Raoul Henry Jensen (D11) Chandel Pty Ltd ACN 007 777 264 (D12) Daedalus Strategies Pty Ltd ACN 104 863 943 (D13) Emma Helen Bainbridge (D14) Dean Frederick Bainbridge (D15) Chandele Pty Ltd ACN 081 995 002 (D16) Giam Swiegers as representing himself and all other partners of the firm practising as "Deloitte" as at 2 August 2006 (D17)