Cadia Holdings Pty Ltd v State of NSW [2008] NSWSC 528

New South Wales Supreme Court

CITATION : Cadia Holdings Pty Ltd v State of NSW [2008] NSWSC 528

HEARING DATE(S) : 31 March, 1, 2 & 24 April and 2 May 2008

JUDGMENT DATE : 30 May 2008

JURISDICTION : Equity

JUDGMENT OF : Hamilton J

DECISION : The copper in dispute is a privately owned mineral.

CATCHWORDS : MINING LAW [3] – General matters – Minerals and rights thereto – Royal mines.

Gold Fields Management Act 1852 (16 Vic No 43) s 29 Imperial Acts Application Act 1969 Interpretation Act 1978 (UK) s 16 LEGISLATION CITED : Interpretation Act 1987 s 30 Mining Act 1973 ss 11 & 70(12) Mining Act 1992 ss 3, 5 – 8, 11(1), 68(2), 282, 284 & 379 Royal Mines Act 1688 (Imp) 1 Wm & M c 30 Royal Mines Act 1693 (Imp) 5 Wm & M c 6

CATEGORY : Principal judgment

Attorney-General v De Keyser's Royal Hotel Ltd [1920] AC 508 Attorney-General v Morgan [1891] 1 Ch 423 Barton v The Commonwealth (1974) 131 CLR 477 Bismark Range (Lucknow) Gold Exploration NL v Wentworth (Lucknow) Goldfields NL (1935) 35 SR (NSW) 400 Bonaccorso v Strathfield Municipal Council [2003] NSWSC 408 Bone v Mothershaw [2003] 2 Qd R 600 C J Burland Pty Ltd v Metropolitan Meat Industry Board (1968) 120 CLR 400 Clissold v Perry (Minister for Public Instruction) (1904) 1 CLR 363 Commonwealth v Hazeldell Ltd [1921] 2 AC 373; (1921) 29 CLR 448 Federal Commissioner of Taxation v Official Liquidator of E O Farley Ltd (1940) 63 CLR 278 Heydon's Case (1584) 3 Co Rep 7a; 76 ER 637 Hypec Electronics Pty Ltd (In Liq) v Registrar-General (2005) 64 NSWLR 679 Jarratt v Commissioner of Police for New South Wales (2005) 224 CLR 44 CASES CITED : Majeau Carrying Co Pty Ltd v Coastal Rutile Ltd (1973) 129 CLR 48 Marshall v Smith (1907) 4 CLR 1617 Metropolitan Petar v Mitreski [2003] NSWSC 262 Minister for Mineral Resources v Brantag Pty Ltd (1997) 8 BPR 15,815 Project Blue Sky Inc v Australian Broadcasting Authority (1998) 194 CLR 355 R v Bradley and Lee (1935) 54 CLR 12 Ruddock v Vadarlis (2001) 110 FCR 491 The Case of Mines (The Queen v The Earl of Northumberland) (1568) 1 Plowden 310; 75 ER 472 The Crown v Dalgety and Company Limited (1943) 69 CLR 18 The Ombudsman v Laughton (2005) 64 NSWLR 114 The State of South Australia v The State of Victoria (1911) 12 CLR 667 The Wik Peoples v The State of Queensland (1996) 187 CLR 1 Wade v New South Wales Rutile Mining Co Pty Ltd (1969) 121 CLR 177 Ward v The Queen (1980) 142 CLR 308 Woolworths Limited v Crotty (1942) 66 CLR 603