Dawson & Ors v LNG Holdings Pty Ltd & Ors [2006] NSWSC 1484

New South Wales Supreme Court

CITATION : Dawson & Ors v LNG Holdings Pty Ltd & Ors [2006] NSWSC 1484 This decision has been amended. Please see the end of the judgment for a list of the amendments.

HEARING DATE(S) : 19-20 December 2006 JURISDICTION : Equity Division

JUDGMENT OF : Brereton J

EX TEMPORE JUDGMENT DATE : 12/20/2006

DECISION : Adjournment granted, hearing vacated, defendants to pay plaintiffs' costs of on indemnity basis.

CATCHWORDS : PROCEDURE – under (NSW) Civil Procedure Act 2005 – Adjournment – application by defendants to vacate trial where earlier trial also vacated due to defendants' procedural defaults – relevant considerations – balance of injustice where serious procedural delinquencies by defendants but no material prejudice to plaintiffs from adjournment.

LEGISLATION CITED : (NSW) Civil Procedure Act 2005 (NSW) Family Provision Act 1982

Chandra v Perpetual Trustee Victoria Limited (2006) NSWSC 1046 Kane v Wyllie [2006] NSWSC 710 CASES CITED : Ketteman v Hansell Properties [1987] AC 189 Phornpisutikul v Mileto [2006] NSWSC 57 State of Queensland v J L Holdings Pty Ltd (1997) 189 CLR 146

Rhonda Dawson (first plaintiff/first cross-defendant) Wayne Dawson (second plaintiff/second cross-defendant) Trevor Solomons (third plaintiff/third cross-defendant) Irena Nebenzhal (fourth plaintiff/fourth cross-defendant) PARTIES : Illana Lampert (fifth plaintiff/fifth cross-defendant) Lyall Norman Gorman (sixth cross-defendant) LNG Holdings Pty Ltd (in liq) (first defendant) Christine Nash (second defendant/first cross-claimant) Graham David Vaughan (third defendant/second cross-claimant)