Terry Cross Financial Services v Michael Misiti & Ors [2008] NSWSC 1365

New South Wales Supreme Court

CITATION : Terry Cross Financial Services v Michael Misiti & Ors [2008] NSWSC 1365

HEARING DATE(S) : 11/09/2008

JUDGMENT DATE : 19 September 2008

JUDGMENT OF : Rein J

CATCHWORDS : Claims of unlawful interference with trade or business interests of plaintiff - Inducement of breach of contract of employment - Tort of conspiracy - Procurement of civil wrongs - Contravention of corporations law - Whether all or any of the causes of action should be struck out

LEGISLATION CITED : Trade Practices Act 1974 (Cth) Corporations Act 2001 (Cth)

General Steel Industries Inc v Commissioner for Railways (NSW) (1964) 112 CLR 125 Australian Building Industries Pty Ltd v Stramit BC9706333 (Federal Court of Australia, Northrop, Lindgren and Lehane JJ, 1 December 1997) General Steel and to Dey v Victorian Railways Commissioners (1949) 78 CLR 62 Fancourt v Mercantile Credits Ltd (1983) 154 CLR 87 Webster v Lampard (1993) 177 CLR 598 CASES CITED : Munnings v Australian Government Solicitor (1994) 68 ALJR 169 Australian Liquor Hospitality and Miscellaneous Workers Union v Liquorland (Aust) Pty Ltd (2002) 114 IR 165 Sanders v Snell (1998) 196 CLR 329 Deepcliffe v Gold Coast City Council [2001] QCA 342 Wickstead v Browne 30 NSWLR 1 The Koursk [1924] P 140 Lumley v Gye (1853) 718 ER 749

Halsburys Laws of Australia TEXTS CITED : Clerk & Lindsell on Torts (19th edn, Thomson, Sweet and Maxwell) J.D. Heydon The Restraint of Trade Doctrine (2nd edn, Butterworths, 1999) Fleming, The Law of Torts (9th edn, Law Book) Balkin & Davis, Law of Torts (3rd edn, 2004)