Sirius Shipping Corporation v The Ship ‘Sunrise’ & Ors [2007] NSWSC 766

New South Wales Supreme Court

CITATION : Sirius Shipping Corporation v The Ship 'Sunrise' & Ors [2007] NSWSC 766

HEARING DATE(S) : 4 July 2007

JUDGMENT DATE : 17 July 2007

JURISDICTION : Equity Division Admiralty List

JUDGMENT OF : Palmer J

DECISION : No orders made; matter stood over for further directions.

CATCHWORDS : PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE – COSTS – FINAL ORDERS – INHERENT JURISDICTION – Whether orders giving relief against some but not all parties disposed of whole proceedings – whether Court functus officio and could not make costs orders – whether and when a Judge can take over conduct of proceedings part-heard by another Judge – when can Court set aside own perfected orders – Court's inherent jurisdiction.

LEGISLATION CITED : Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 2005 (NSW) – 20.14, 36.11, 36.16

- Bailey v Marinoff (1971) 125 CLR 529 - D v Director General, Department of Community Services [2005] NSWCA 474 - DJL v Cental Authority (2000) 201 CLR 226 - Jones v R (1989) 166 CLR 409 - Mulholland v Mitchell [1971] AC 666 - Meier v Meier [1948] P 89 - Orr v Holmes (1948) 76 CLR 632 - Pantorno v R (1989) 166 CLR 466 CASES CITED : - Postiglione v R (1997) 189 CLR 295 - R v Giri (No 2) [2001] NSWCCA 234 - R v Lapa (No 2) (1995) 80 A Crim R 398 - R v Bow Street Magistrate; Ex parte Pinochet Ugarte (No 2) [2000] 1 AC 119 - R v Burrell [2007] NSWCCA 79 - Sirius Shipping Corp v Ship Sunrise [2006] NSWSC 398 - Sirius Shipping Corp v Ship Sunrise [2006] NSWSC 1393 - State Rail Authority of New South Wales v Codelfa Construction Pty Ltd (1982) 150 CLR 29 - Wentworth v Rogers (No 3) (1986) 6 NSWLR 642