(1) Access Services Group Pty Ltd v McLoughlin; (2) McLoughlin v ACN 098 883 884 Pty Ltd [2006] NSWSC 532

Reported Decision : 57 ACSR 725 201 FLR 16

New South Wales Supreme Court

CITATION : (1) Access Services Group Pty Ltd v McLoughlin; (2) McLoughlin v ACN 098 883 884 Pty Ltd [2006] NSWSC 532

HEARING DATE(S) : 27/3/06 Written submissions - 01/06/06

JUDGMENT DATE : 7 June 2006

JURISDICTION : Equity Division Corporations List

JUDGMENT OF : Barrett J

DECISION : Section 459G application dismissed; plaintiff to pay defendant's costs. Winding up application dismissed; defendant to pay plaintiff's costs

CATCHWORDS : PROCEDURE - costs - director of company purports to commence proceedings by signing originating process - no solicitor - whether proceedings maintainable - whether the director may be ordered to pay costs

Civil Procedure Act 2005, ss.14, 98 LEGISLATION CITED : Corporations Act 2001 (Cth), s.459G, Part 5.3A Supreme Court (Corporations) Rules 1999, rule 1.3(2), 2.13(3) Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 2005, rules 1.3(2), 6.24, 6.26, 7.1(2) and (3), 42.3

Bay Marine Pty Ltd v Clayton Country Properties Pty Ltd (1986) 8 NSWLR 104 Knight v FP Special Assets Ltd (1992) 174 CLR 178 CASES CITED : McDonald v Deputy Commissioner of Taxation (2005) 187 FLR 461 Roach v Winnote Pty Ltd [2006] NSWSC 231 Young v Hypec Electronics Pty Ltd [2003] NSWCA 181

(1) Access Services Group Pty Ltd - Plaintiff Michael James McLoughlin - Defendant PARTIES : (2) Michael James McLoughlin - First Plaintiff Andrew Ochudzawa - Second Plaintiff ACN 098 883 884 Pty Limited (PKA Access Services Group Pty Ltd) - Defendant