NSW Caselaw
New South Wales Supreme Court
CITATION : Sydney Water Corporation v The Persons Listed in the Schedules trading as PricewaterhouseCoopers [2008] NSWSC 361
HEARING DATE(S) : 16 April 2008
JUDGMENT DATE : 22 April 2008
JURISDICTION : Equity Division - Technology and Construction List
JUDGMENT OF : Bergin J
DECISION : Auditor-General required to comply with subpoena
CATCHWORDS : [SUBPOENA] - subpoena to produce documents - whether Auditor-General required to produce documents in compliance with a subpoena - whether secrecy provisions in s 38(1) of the Public Finance and Audit Act 1983 prohibit compliance
Corporations Act 2001 (Cth) Friendly Societies Act 1991 (Qld) Income Tax Assessment Act 1936 (Cth) Navigation Act 1912 (Cth) LEGISLATION CITED : Navigation (Marine Casualty) Regulations 1990 (Cth) Public Finance and Audit Act 1983 Taxation Administration Act 1953 (Cth) Telecommunications (Interception) Act 1979 (Cth) Telephonic Communications (Interception) Act 1960 (Cth) Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 2005
Abrook v Paterson (No 2) (1995) 59 FCR 364 Canadian Pacific Tobacco Co Ltd v Stapleton (1952) 86 CLR 1 Hilton v Wells (1985) 157 CLR 57 CASES CITED : Javorsky (in his capacity as liq of PLM Formwork Pty Ltd (in liq)) v Commissioner of Taxation (2005) 216 ALR 619 Miller v Miller (1978) 141 CLR 269 Re NSW Grains Board [2002] NSWSC 913 The Sanko Steamship Company Ltd v Sumitomo Australia Ltd (1992) 37 FCR 353 Waind v Hill & National Employer's Mutual Association Ltd [1978] 1 NSWLR 372
We try to embed the page this law was scraped from. If the site blocks framing, you still get the link and a local excerpt.
Last checked with source on —
Checking whether the official page can be embedded…
Plain-English simplify of this law: a short summary, key points, and both sides of the argument. Generated on first view via Replicate, then cached. Vote on what helps your study.
No study brief is cached for this law yet. Sign up to generate a plain-English brief.
Sign up to generate