Tyrrell v The Owners Corporation Strata Scheme 40022 [2007] NSWCA 8

New South Wales Court of Appeal

CITATION: Tyrrell v The Owners Corporation Strata Scheme 40022 [2007] NSWCA 8

HEARING DATE(S): 6 February 2007 JUDGMENT OF: Spigelman CJ at 1, 30; Mason P at 23; Campbell JA at 28

EX TEMPORE JUDGMENT DATE: 6 February 2007

DECISION: 1 Appeal allowed; 2 Set aside the answer to the question of Rein DCJ given on 12 October 2005; 3 Decline to answer the question; 4 The costs of the separate question both in the District Court and this Court be costs in the cause.

CATCHWORDS: PROCEDURE – Supreme Court procedure – New South Wales – procedure under rules of court – determination of a preliminary or separate issue under rule 28.2 - TORTS – negligence – duty of care – assumed facts for the purpose of a separate decision

LEGISLATION CITED: Civil Procedure Act 2005; s56

Council of the Shire of Noosa v J E Farr Pty Limited [2001] QSC 60 Houghton v Arms [2006] HCA 59 Interchase Corporation Limited v ACN 010087573 Pty Limited [2001] QCA 191 Rexstraw v Johnson [2003] NSWCA 287 CASES CITED: Robt Jones (363 Adelaide Street) Pty Limited v First Abbott Corporation [1997] QSC 210 Sealand of the Pacific v Robert C McHaffie Limited (1974) 51 DLR (3d) 702 Trevor Ivory v Anderson (1992) 2 NZLR 517 Williams v Natural Life Healthfoods Limited (1998) 1 WLR 830 Woolcock Street Investments Pty Limited v CDG Pty Limited (2004) 216 CLR 515

PARTIES: Mr Jeremy White Tyrrell (Appellant) The Owners Corporation Strata Scheme 40022 (Respondent)

FILE NUMBER(S): CA 40842/05

COUNSEL: J. L. Glissan QC; J. S. Whyte (Appellant) S. Burchett (Respondent)