NSW Caselaw
New South Wales Supreme Court
CITATION : Mead v Allianz Australia Ltd [2006] NSWSC 366 This decision has been amended. Please see the end of the judgment for a list of the amendments.
HEARING DATE(S) : 13/03/06
JUDGMENT DATE : 3 May 2006
JUDGMENT OF : Bergin J
DECISION : Answer to seperate question - "No".
CATCHWORDS : Separate question as to whether defendant has validly denied liability under Policy - where insured is liquidator of company - where insured commences proceedings to recover assets of company - where insured ordered to pay costs personally - where insured removed as liquidator - where insured ordered to pay costs of removal proceedings personally - where Policy excludes liability for claim directly or indirectly based upon, attributable to, or in consequence of, any "malicious or reckless act" which is "established by judgment or other final adjudication" - whether judgments in various proceedings "establish" "malicious" or "reckless" acts by insured.
LEGISLATION CITED : Crimes Act 1900 (NSW) Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 2005
Abrath v North Eastern Railway Co (1883) 11 QBD 440 Banditt v The Queen (2005) 80 ALJR 421; [2005] HCA 80 BL & GY International Co Ltd v Hypec Electronics Pty Ltd [2001] NSWSC 705; (2001) 164 FLR 268 BL & GY International Co Ltd v Hypec Electronics Pty Ltd & 2 Ors [2002] NSWSC 38 BL & GY International Co Ltd v Hypec Electronics Pty Ltd (in liq) [2003] NSWSC 1226 BL & GY International Co Ltd v Hypec Electronics Pty Ltd (in liq) [2004] NSWSC 1119 BL & GY International Co Ltd v Hypec Electronics Pty Ltd (No 2) (Gzell J, 16 December 2004, Supreme Court of New South Wales) Fraser v B N Furman (Productions) Ltd [1967] 1 WLR 898 CASES CITED : Hypec Electronics Pty Ltd (in liq) v Mead & Ors (2003) 202 ALR 688 Hypec Electronics Pty Ltd v Mead [2004] NSWCA 221 Hypec Electronics Pty Ltd (in liq) v Mead & Ors [2004] NSWSC 731; (2004) 61 NSWLR 169; (2004) 50 ACSR 448 Legal & General Insurance Australia Ltd v Eather (1986) 6 NSWLR 390 Mead v Watson [2005] NSWCA 133 Mogul Steamship Company v McGregor Gow, & Co, & Ors (1889) 23 QBD 598 Rapley v Rapley (1930) 30 SR (NSW) 94 Roberts v Bass (2002) 212 CLR 1 Trobridge v Hardy (1955) 94 CLR 147 Wilkie v Gordian Runoff Ltd (2005) 79 ALJR 872; [2005] HCA 17
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