NSW Caselaw
New South Wales Supreme Court
CITATION : McIlraith v Ilkin & anor [2007] NSWSC 911
HEARING DATE(S) : 2 August 2007
JUDGMENT DATE : 23 August 2007
JURISDICTION : Common Law Division
JUDGMENT OF : Brereton J
DECISION : The claim against the first defendant has no possibility of success. The case is a wholly inappropriate one for the summary jurisdiction. Order that the proceedings as against the first defendant be dismissed, with costs.
CATCHWORDS : LEGAL PRACTITIONERS – conduct and discipline – compensation for misconduct – summary supervisory jurisdiction – summary disposal – extent to which negligence is sufficient to attract jurisdiction – negligence must be of a culpable quality, amounting to a "serious dereliction of duty" – whether negligent to express opinion which is erroneous because of incorrect assumption disclosed as such – whether seriously arguable case – whether sufficient case to call for answer – whether case suitable for summary jurisdiction
LEGISLATION CITED : (NSW) Legal Profession Act 2004 s 504 (NSW) Supreme Court Act 1970 s 54
Al-Kandari v JR Brown & Co [1988] 1 QB 665 Brimson v Rocla Concrete Pipes Limited [1982] 2 NSWLR 937 Countrywide Bank Incorporation Ltd v Kingston [1990] 1 NZLR 629 Dey v Victorian Railways Commissioners (1949) 78 CLR 62 Edwards v Edwards [1958] P 235 General Steel Industries Inc v Commissioner for Railways (NSW) (1964) 112 CLR 125 Geoffrey Silver & Drake v Baines [1971] 1 QB 396 John Fox v Bannister, King & Rigbys [1988] 1 QB 925 Kallinicos v Hunt (2005) 64 NSWLR 561 Laferla v Birdon Sands Pty Ltd (2005) Aust Torts Reports 81-786 Malfanti v Legal Profession Disciplinary Tribunal (NSWCA, 23 August 1993, unreported, BC9303657) Marsh v Joseph [1897] 1 Ch 213 CASES CITED : Mauroux v Sociedade Comercial Abel Pereira da Fonseca SARL [1972] 2 All ER 1085 McIlraith v Ilkin (Hidden J, 23 April 2007, unreported) McIlraith v The Institute of Chartered Accountants [2003] NSWSC 208 Myers v Elman [1940] AC 282 Penthouse Publications Limited v McWilliam (NSWCA, 14 March 1991, unreported, BC9102223) R & T Thew Ltd v Reeves (No 2) [1982] QB 1283 Spellson v George (1992) 26 NSWLR 666 Tampion v Anderson [1973] VR 321 Udall v Capri Lighting Ltd [1988] 1 QB 907 United Mining & Finance Corporation Limited v Becher [1910] 2 KB 296 Wade v Licardy (1993) 33 NSWLR 1 Walton v Gardiner (1993) 177 CLR 378 Wickstead v Browne (1992) 30 NSWLR 1
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