Buzzle Operations Pty Ltd (In Liquidation) v Breirl [2008] NSWSC 746

New South Wales Supreme Court

CITATION : Buzzle Operations Pty Ltd (In Liquidation) v Breirl [2008] NSWSC 746

HEARING DATE(S) : 3 March 2008, 5 March 2008

JUDGMENT DATE : 25 July 2008

JURISDICTION : Common Law

JUDGMENT OF : Rothman J

1. The Court makes the following orders:

(i) The motions of the defendants, for which notice was given on 2 July 2007 and 16 November 2007, be dismissed;

AND the Court proposes the following orders:

DECISION : (ii) Pursuant to the Uniform Civil Procedure Rules, the time for service of the statement of claim upon the defendants be extended nunc pro tunc up to and including the date of these orders;

(iii) The service of the statement of claim be deemed to have been effected upon the defendants, and each of them, as at the date of these orders;

(iv) Costs of these proceedings be the defendants' costs in the cause.

2. The parties have liberty, within 14 days of the publication of these orders and proposed orders, to address, in writing, the issues addressed in proposed orders (ii), (iii) and (iv) above, including the issue of costs.

CATCHWORDS : PROCEDURE – extension of time for service previously granted ex parte – application by defendants to set aside – English Procedure – principles – relevant factors – broad discretion – balance of interests – extension of time confirmed.

LEGISLATION CITED : Civil Procedure Act 2005 Corporations Act 2001 (Cth)

CATEGORY : Procedural and other rulings

Apple Computer Australia Pty Ltd v Mekrizas & Ors (2003) 44 ACSR 518 Baly v Barrett [1988] N.I. 369 Battersby v Anglo-American Oil Co Ltd [1945] KB 23 Buzzle Operations Pty Ltd v Breirl and Ors [2007] NSWSC 922 Dagnell v J L Freedman & Co [1993] 1 WLR 388 El Ali v GIO of NSW (1988) 15 NSWLR 303 FAI General Insurance Co Ltd v Southern Cross Exploration NL [1988] HCA 13; (1988) 165 CLR 268 Holman v George Elliot & Co Ltd [1944] K.B. 591 Kleinwort Benson Ltd v Barbrak Ltd [1987] AC 597 Pell v Hodges [2007] NSWCA 234 CASES CITED : Pontin v Wood [1962] 1 QB 594 Ramsay v Madgwicks [1989] V.R. 1 Re Beddoe; Downes v Cottam [1893] 1 Ch 547 Rich v Long [2008] NSWSC 487 Rich v Packer & Ors [2007] NSWSC 1290 Rust v Barnes [1980] 2 NSWLR 726 Savcor Pty Ltd v Cathodic Protection International APS [2005] VSCA 213; (2005) 12 VR 639 Tolcher v Gordon [2005] NSWCA 135; (2005) 53 ACSR 442 Van Leer Australia Pty Ltd v Palace Shipping Kk [1981] HCA 11; (1994) 180 CLR 337 Victa Limited v Johnson (1975) 10 SASR 496 Weston v Publishing and Broadcasting Ltd [2007] NSWSC 1318