Carbotech-Australia Pty Ltd v Yates [2008] NSWSC 1046

New South Wales Supreme Court

CITATION : Carbotech-Australia Pty Ltd v Yates [2008] NSWSC 1046

HEARING DATE(S) : 24 September 2008 JURISDICTION : Equity Division

JUDGMENT OF : Brereton J

EX TEMPORE JUDGMENT DATE : 24 September 2008

DECISION : PX04 admitted. Pages 56.16 to 58.09 rejected as against defendants other than Mr Yates.

CATCHWORDS : EVIDENCE – application for leave to adduce evidence given by a defendant in earlier interlocutory hearing – where evidence to be adduced is an admission of defendant – relevant considerations for granting leave – where some defendants in current proceeding were not parties to earlier proceeding– whether the hearsay and/or opinion rules apply – where admission is tendered against third parties

LEGISLATION CITED : (NSW) Evidence Act 1995, ss 81(1), 83 (1) (NSW) Uniform Civil Procedure Rules, rr 31.8, 31.9

CATEGORY : Procedural and other rulings

TEXTS CITED : Ritchie et al, Ritchie's Uniform Civil Procedure NSW (2005) LexisNexis Butterworths

Carbotech-Australia Pty Ltd (P1) Ground Consolidation Pty Ltd (P2) Minova International Pty Ltd (P3) Ian Kenneth Yates (D1; XD1 in XC1; XD2 in XC2; XP1 in XC3) Donna Yates (D2; XD2 in XC1; XD3 in XC2; XP2 in XC3) Eligild Pty Ltd (D3; XD3 in XC1; XD4 in XC2; XP3 in XC3) Ron Godfrey Nielsen (D4; XD4 in XC1; XD5 in XC2; XP4 in XC3) SES Resources Pty Ltd (D5; XP1 in XC1; XD6 in XC2) PARTIES : SES 2005 Pty Ltd (D6; XP2 in XC1; XD7 in XC2) Wombat Holdings (NSW) Pty Ltd (D7; XD5 in XC1; XD8 in XC2; XP5 in XC3) Global Resins Pty Ltd (D8; XP3 in XC1; XD9 in XC2; XD3 in XC3) SES International Ltd (D9; XP4 in XC1; XD10 in XC2) Mark Weston (D10; XD6 in XC1; XD1 in XC2; XD6 in XC3) Era Polymers Pty Ltd (D11; XD7 in XC1; XP1 in XC2) Era Polymers Holdings Pty Ltd (D12; XD8 in XC1; XP2 in XC2) Geoffrey David Mellon (D13; XD9 in XC1; XD11 in XC2; XD9 in XC3) SES Holdings Plc (D15; XP5 in XC1; XD13 in XC2)