Metlife Insurance Ltd v Visy Board Pty Ltd & 25 ors (Costs) [2008] NSWSC 111

New South Wales Supreme Court

CITATION : Metlife Insurance Ltd v Visy Board Pty Ltd & 25 ors (Costs) [2008] NSWSC 111

HEARING DATE(S) : 4 February 2008 JURISDICTION : Equity Division Expedition List

JUDGMENT OF : Brereton J

EX TEMPORE JUDGMENT DATE : 4 February 2008

DECISION : Plaintiff to pay interveners' costs of application for joinder. Interveners to pay 35% of plaintiff's costs of proceedings after date of intervention.

CATCHWORDS : COSTS – Rectification suit – Intervention – where costs increased by intervention – where plaintiff ultimately but not completely successful and intervention partially successful.

LEGISLATION CITED : (NSW) Civil Procedure Act 2005, s 98 (NSW) Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 2005, r 42.1

CATEGORY : Consequential orders

Cape Country Club Pty Ltd v Cape Shanck Resort Co Ltd [1999] VSC 217 City of Burnside v Attorney General of South Australia (1994) 63 SASR 65 CASES CITED : MetLife Insurance Limited v Visy Board Pty Limited [2007] NSWSC 1481 MetLife Insurance Limited v Visy Board Pty Limited [2007] NSWSC 1168 O'Toole v Charles David Pty Ltd (No 2) (1991) 171 CLR 232

Metlife Insurance Limited (plaintiff) Visy Board Pty Limited (1st defendant) Visy Paper Pty Limited (2nd defendant) Visy Board Superannuation Pty Limited (3rd defendant) Arpad Kozma (4th defendant) Colin Frewen (5th defendant) Reginald De Livera (6th defendant) Stephen Smith (7th defendant) Florian Karwacki (8th defendant) Sylvia Kleinman (9th defendant) Oscar Marconi (10th defendant) Petru Suciu (11th defendant) Thomas Hall (12th defendant) PARTIES : Mark Williams (13th defendant) Concetta Tedesco (14th defendant) Don Rakoci (15th defendant) Slako Gorguc (16th defendant) Shane Rogers (17th defendant) Maurice Rafidi (18th defendant) Edward Denko (19th defendant) Maria Drago (20th defendant) Milenco Baloi (21st defendant) Cane Mickovski (22nd defendant) Eyup Turkoglu (23rd defendant) Ugur Arslan (24th defendant) Gregory Sabitino (25th defendant) Ramadan Salievski (26th defendant)