IPM Pty Ltd v Consumer Trader and Tenancy Tribunal [2008] NSWSC 130

New South Wales Supreme Court

CITATION : IPM Pty Ltd v Consumer Trader and Tenancy Tribunal [2008] NSWSC 130

HEARING DATE(S) : 22 February 2008

JUDGMENT DATE : 28 February 2008

JUDGMENT OF : Malpass AsJ

DECISION : Summons dismissed; plaintiff to pay the costs of the Summons.

CATCHWORDS : APPEAL - costs - construction of regulation - ordinary rule - discretion and avenue of appeal

Consumer Trader and Tenancy Tribunal Act (2001) LEGISLATION CITED : Consumer Trader and Tenancy Tribunal Regulation (2002) Home Building Act 1989

CATEGORY : Principal judgment

CASES CITED : Newcastle Wallsend Coal Co Pty Limited v Industrial Relations Commission of NSW [2006] NSWCA 129 Stollznow v Calvert (1980) 2 NSWLR 749

IPM Pty Ltd (Plaintiff) Consumer Trader & Tenancy Tribunal (First defendant) Owners Corporation of Strata Plan 63856 (Second defendant) John Torrisi (Third defendant) Jane Torrisi (Fourth defendant) John William Young (Fifth defendant) Beverly May Young (Sixth defendant) Ian Arthur Wilson (Seventh defendant) Pamela Anne Wilson (Eighth defendant) Ivan Meeke (Ninth defendant) PARTIES : Catherine Meeke (Tenth defendant) Shuet Fond Yeung NG (Eleventh defendant) Kowk Wah NG (Twelfth defendant) Helen Margaret Trent (Thirteenth defendant) Robert Earle Trent (Fourtheenth defendant) Robery Dye (Fifteenth defendant) Susan Patricia Dye (Sixteenth defendant) Linda Joyce Miners (Seventeenth defendant) Margaret Ellen Fearn (Eighteenth defendant) Kerry Anne Maskell (Nineteenth defendant) Robin Tung Keun Poon (Twentieth defendant) Mei Tun Chueng Poon (Twenty-first defendant)