NSW Caselaw
New South Wales Supreme Court
CITATION : Stafford & anor v Kekatos & anor [2008] NSWSC 810
HEARING DATE(S) : 25 July 2008
JUDGMENT DATE : 8 August 2008
JURISDICTION : Equity Division
JUDGMENT OF : Brereton J
DECISION : Amended Statement of Claim filed pursuant to orders to file did not require further leave. Two paragraphs of Amended Statement of Claim struck out, motion otherwise dismissed with costs.
CATCHWORDS : PROCEDURE - application to strike out pleadings and/or summary dismissal of amended statement of claim - where amended statement of claim alleged no new material facts - where application made three months before final hearing and defendant made no objection to the original claim in preceding eighteen months - whether amended statement of claim filed irregularly - whether causes of action and material facts sufficiently pleaded - whether certain pleadings alleging that defendant held certain interests on trust untenable pursuant to Conveyancing Act 1954, s 54A - whether certain pleadings inconsistent and embarrassing - whether any such prejudice to defendant from minor deficiencies justifies dismissal/striking out at this late stage.
(CTH) Trade Practices Act 1974, s 51A LEGISLATION CITED : (NSW) Conveyancing Act 1919, s 54A (NSW) Fair Trading Act 1987, ss 41, 42 [52K-52R] (NSW) Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 2005, rr 13.4, 14.28
Adams v Bank of NSW [1984] 1 NSWLR 285 Allen v Snyder [1977] 2 NSWLR 685 Aussie Home Security Pty Ltd v Sales Systems Australia Pty Ltd [1999] FCA 1458 Baumgartner v Baumgartner (1987) 164 CLR 137 Black Uhlans Inc v New South Wales Crime Commission [2002] NSWSC 1060 Brimson v Rocla Concrete Pipes Ltd [1982] 2 NSWLR 937 Dey v Victorian Railways Commissioners (1949) 78 CLR 62 General Steel Industries Inc v Commissioner for Railways (NSW) (1964) 112 CLR 125 Muschinski v Dodds (1984) 160 CLR 583 CASES CITED : Penthouse Publications Ltd v McWilliam (NSWCA, 14 March 1991, unreported) Peter Kent Development Pty Ltd v ANZ Banking Group Ltd (NSWSC Hunt J, 6 May 1980, unreported) Phoenix Court Pty Ltd v Melbourne Central Pty Ltd (1997) ATPR 46-179 Republic of Peru v Peruvian Guano Co (1887) 36 Ch D 489 Spellson v George (1992) 26 NSWLR 666 Tampion v Anderson [1973] VR 321, 325 Waltons Stores (Interstate) Ltd v Maher (1988) 164 CLR 387 Wentworth v Rogers (No 5) (1986) 6 NSWLR 534 Wickstead v Browne (1992) 30 NSWLR 1 Willis v Earl Howe [1893] 2 Ch 545 Worthington & Co Ltd v Belton (1902) 18 TLR 438
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