Rusiti v Alkhoshaibi [2007] NSWSC 1374

New South Wales Supreme Court

CITATION : Rusiti v Alkhoshaibi [2007] NSWSC 1374

HEARING DATE(S) : 6, 7 and 8 November 2007

JUDGMENT DATE : 8 December 2007

JUDGMENT OF : McDougall J at 1

DECISION : See paragraph 82 of the judgment.

CATCHWORDS : PRACTICE – Production of documents – pursuant to notices to produce – Whether notices to produce valid – Use of notice to produce as substitute for discovery – Whether "vexatious and oppressive" – Security for costs – Whether defendants the cause of plaintiffs' impecuniosity – Delay – Whether delay caused prejudice to party against whom order was sought. - CORPORATIONS – Where leave granted earlier pursuant to Corporations Act s237 – Whether condition as to costs can now be attached pursuant to s242. -

Corporations Act 2001 LEGISLATION CITED : Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 2005 Fisher & Lightwood's Law of Mortgage

Adams v Bank of New South Wales [1984] 1 NSWLR 285 Carpenter v Pioneer Park Pty Ltd (in liq) (2004) 51 ACSR 299 Cowell v Taylor (1885) 31 Ch D 34 Fiduciary Limited v Morningstar Research Pty Ltd (2004) 208 ALR 564 Fiduciary Ltd v Morningstar Research Pty Ltd (2005) 53 ACSR 732 Kennedy v General Credits Ltd (Court of Appeal, 14 May 1982, unreported) CASES CITED : KP Cable Investments Pty Ltd v Meltglow Pty Ltd (1995) 56 FCR 189 Gentry Bros Pty Ltd v Wilson Brown & Associates Pty Ltd (1992) 8 ACSR 405 Hughes Bros Pty Ltd v The Trustees of the Roman Catholic Church for the Archdiocese of Sydney (7 November 1995, unreported; BC 95079079 Idoport Pty Ltd v National Australia Bank Ltd [2001] NSWSC 744 MA Productions Pty Ltd v Austarama Television Pty Ltd (1982) 7 ACLR 97 Roach v Winnote Pty Ltd [2006] NSWSC 231 Scandinavian Pacific Ltd v Burke (1991) 5 BPR 11,846