Street & 7 ors v Luna Park Sydney Pty Ltd & 1 or [2006] NSWSC 230

New South Wales Supreme Court

CITATION : Street & 7 ors v Luna Park Sydney Pty Ltd & 1 or [2006] NSWSC 230

HEARING DATE(S) : 20 March 2006

JUDGMENT DATE : 6 April 2006

JUDGMENT OF : Brereton J

DECISION : Paragraphs 70 & 71.

CATCHWORDS : PROCEDURE – Amendment – to introduce new, statute-barred cause of action – issues which arise on application for leave to amend – whether power to permit amendment – whether amendment futile - relation back of amendments – whether amendment which introduces new cause of action relates back – held, it does. PROCEDURE – Particulars – particulars relating to causation. TRADE PRACTICES – Remedies – Injunctions – Injunctions which affect party in respect of obligations to a third party – Whether court has power to grant injunction which requires party bound to exercise powers as a company director in a particular way – held, it does. WORDS AND PHRASES – "proceedings may not be taken". WORDS AND PHRASES – "with respect to".

Civil Procedure Act 2005 (NSW), ss 64, 65 Crown Lands Act 1989 (NSW), s 114 Family Law Act 1975 (Cth), s 114(3) Limitation Act 1969 (NSW) Luna Park Site Amendment (Noise Control) Act 2005 (NSW) LEGISLATION CITED : Luna Park Site Amendment (Noise Control) Bill 2005 (NSW) Luna Park Site Act 1990 (NSW), s 19A, Sch 2 Pt 3 Supreme Court Act 1970 (NSW), s 6 Supreme Court Rules 1970 (NSW) Trade Practices Act 1974 (Cth), ss 52, 75B, 80, and 87 Uniform Civil Procedure Rules rr 6.24, 14.28(a), 15.10(1)(a)

Agtrack (NT) Pty Ltd v Hatfield (2003) 7 VR 63 Agtrack (NT) Pty Ltd v Hatfield (2005) 218 ALR 677 Air Link Pty Ltd v Paterson (2005) 218 ALR 700 Application Des Gaz SA v Falks Veritas Ltd [1974] Ch 381 Australian Competition and Consumer Commission v Real Estate Institute of Western Australia Inc (1999) 161 ALR 79; [1999] FCA 18 Australian Competition and Consumer Commission v Z-Tek Computer Pty Ltd (1997) 78 FCR 197 Ascot Investments Pty Limited v Harper (1981) 148 CLR 337 Baldry v Jackson [1976] 2 NSWLR 415 Bateman's Bay Local Aboriginal Land Council v The Aboriginal Community Benefit Fund Pty Ltd (1998) 194 CLR 247 Bond Corp Pty Ltd v Thiess Contractors Pty Ltd (1987) 14 FCR 215 Boyce v Paddington Borough Council [1903] 1 Ch 109 Council for the City of the Gold Coast v Pioneer Concrete (Qld) Pty Ltd and Others (1998) 157 ALR 135 Fernance v Nominal Defendant (1989) 17 NSWLR 710 Gould v Vaggelas (1985) 157 CLR 215 Henderson v Pioneer Homes Pty Ltd (No 2) (1980) 29 ALR 597 Hutchinson v Jauncey [1950] 1 KB 574 ICI Australia Operations Pty Ltd v Trade Practices Commission (1992) 38 FCR 248 Janssen Pharmaceutical Limited v Pfizer Pty Ltd (1986) ATPR 40-654; 6 IPR 227 CASES CITED : Ketteman v Hansel Properties Ltd [1987] AC 189 Kirela Pty Ltd v Westfield Holdings Ltd [2002] FCA 1223 Liff v Peasley [1980] 1 All ER 623 (CA); [1980] 1 WLR 781 McDowell v Baker (1979) 144 CLR 413 McGee v Yeomans [1977] 1 NSWLR 273 Maritime Services Board v Murray (1993) 52 IR 455; NSWCA, 22 December 1993 Marks v GIO Australia Holdings Ltd (1998) 196 CLR 494; [1998] HCA 69 Morgan v Banning (1999) 20 WAR 474 O D Transport Pty Ltd v Western Australian Government Railways Commission (1987) 13 FCR 500 Osgaig Pty Ltd v Ajisen (Melbourne) Pty Ltd (2004) 213 ALR 153; [2004] FCA 1394 Proctor v Jetway Aviation Pty Ltd [1984] 1 NSWLR 166 R v Dovey; Ex parte Ross (1979) 141 CLR 526 Shop Distributive and Allied Employees Association v Minister for Industrial Affairs (1995) 183 CLR 552 Thomson Australian Holdings Pty Ltd v Trade Practices Commission (1981) 148 CLR 150 Thomson Publications (Australia) Pty Limited v Trade Practices Commission (1979) 27 ALR 551; (1979) 17 ALR 551 Tiley & Tiley (1980) 6 Fam LR 528 Walker v Noosa Shire Council [1985] 1 QdR 387 Wardley Australia Ltd v State of Western Australia (1992) 175 CLR 514 Wenham v General Credits Ltd (NSWSC, McLelland J, 16 December 1988, unreported), Wilson v Dagnall [1972] 1 QB 509