NSW Caselaw
New South Wales Supreme Court
CITATION : The Owners Strata Plan 66601 v Majestic Constructions Pty Ltd & Ors [2008] NSWSC 735
HEARING DATE(S) : 6 June 2008
JUDGMENT DATE : 18 July 2008
JUDGMENT OF : Rein J
DECISION : Applicant/Second Defendant's application refused. Applicant to pay costs of the two Respondents (plaintiff and JDT) of the motion.
CATCHWORDS : Insurer seeks to have insured join a third party (alleged by insurer to be a tortfeasor liable to insured), or alternatively, to itself cross claim - Insurer not permitted to require joinder until it has accepted liability for insured's claim - no right in insurer to cross claim against third party - Construction of subrogation clause and consideration of whether insurer had accepted insured's claim
Corporations Act 2001 (Cth) LEGISLATION CITED : Limitation Act 1969 Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1946
CATEGORY : Procedural and other rulings
Patricks Operations Pty Ltd v American Home Assurance Co BC 8902506 (23 February 1989) Santos Ltd & Ors v American Home Assurance Co & Ors (1987) 4ANZ Ins Cas 60-79 Hammer Waste Pty Ltd v QBE Mercantile Mutual Ltd & Anor (2003) 12 ANZ Ins Cas 61-553 Simpson v Thompson (1877) 3 App Cas 279 Castellan v Preston (1883) 11 QBD 380 State Government Insurance Office v Brisbane Stevedoring Pty Ltd (1969) 123 CLR 228 Boag v Standard Marine [1937] 2 KB 113 AFG Insurance Ltd v The City of Brighton (1972) 126 CLR 655 Inglis v Stock (1885) 10 App Cas 263 Commercial Union Assurance Co v Lister (1874) LR 9 Ch App 483 CASES CITED : Arthur Barrett Ltd v National Insurance Co of New Zealand Ltd [1905] NZLR 874 Leighton Contractors Pty Ltd v C.E. Heath Underwriting & Agency Services Ltd & 8 Ors 27 March 1997, unreported, Supreme Court of NSW Leighton Contracters Pty Ltd v C E Heath Underwriting and Agency Services Ltd and Leighton Contractors Pty Ltd v Kinhill Engineers Pty Ltd of 13 November 1992 Sydney Turf Club v Crowley [1971] 1 NSWLR 724 Distillers Co Biochemical (Australia) Pty Ltd v Ajax Insurance Co Ltd (1974) 130 CLR 1 Club Motor Insurance Agency v Swann [1954] VLR 754 Groom v Crocker [1939] 1 KB 194 Page v Scottish Insurance Corp (1929) 140 LT 571 Employers Reinsurance Corporation and Suncorp Metway Insurance Ltd v Ashmere Cove Pty Ltd & Ors 15 ANZ Ins Cas 61, 757 [2008] FCAFC 28 JN Taylor Holdings (in liq.) v Bond (1993) 59 SASR 432) Interchase Corporation (in liq.) v FAI General Insurance Co Ltd [2000] 2 QdR 301 Gordian Runoff v Price & Ors [2004] NSWSC 535
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