NSW Caselaw
New South Wales Supreme Court
CITATION : Attorney General for the State of NSW v Now.com.au Pty Ltd [2008] NSWSC 276
HEARING DATE(S) : 21/02/08
JUDGMENT DATE : 2 April 2008
JURISDICTION : Equity Division
JUDGMENT OF : Young CJ in Eq
DECISION : Held that plaintiff is entitled to the appropriate declarations.
CATCHWORDS : PROFESSIONS & TRADES [224]- Pharmaceutical chemists- Meaning of "pecuniary interest" in s 25 of Pharmacy Act 1964- Mere shareholding in company that owns and operates a pharmacy insufficient to constitute "pecuniary interest"- Need to ascertain totality of circumstances to determine whether "controlling interest"- Held where shareholder in a position to control and indicates intention so to do, to its probable financial benefit, shareholder holds a pecuniary interest. PROFESSIONS & TRADES [224]- Pharmaceutical chemists- Scope of "grandfather" clause in cl 21(1) of Pharmacy (General) Regulation 1998- Exemption only available for lawful shareholdings held before 5 October 1990- Defendant acquired shareholding on 31 March 2006- Exemption did not apply.
LEGISLATION CITED : Pharmacy Act 1964, s 25
CATEGORY : Principal judgment
Australia Meat Holdings Pty Ltd v Trade Practices Commission (1989) 11 ATPR 50,082 Australian Softwood Forests Pty Ltd v Attorney-General (NSW) (1981) 148 CLR 121 Chappuis v Filo (1990) 19 NSWLR 490 City of London Electric Lighting Company Ltd v London Corporation [1903] AC 434 Corporate Affairs Commission (NSW) v Transphere Pty Ltd (1988) 15 NSWLR 596 Director of Public Prosecutions v Walsh (1989) 98 FLR 175; [1990] WAR 25; (1989) 43 A Crim R 266 Gophir Diamond Co v Wood [1902] 1 Ch 950 Holden v Nutall [1945] VLR 171 Hunt v Pascoe (1990) 21 NSWLR 10 Pearce v Brooks (1866) LR 1 Ex 213 CASES CITED : Pham v Doan (2005) 63 NSWLR 370 R v Thomas [1957] 1 WLR 747 Re Webster (1975) 132 CLR 270 Shaw v Director of Public Prosecutions [1962] AC 220 Solicitor-General v Bartlett [2008] 1 NZLR 87 Tasker v Fullwood [1977] 1 NSWLR 688 Tasker v Fullwood [1978] 1 NSWLR 20 Thompson v Groote Eylandt Mining Co Ltd [2003] NTCA 05 Todd v Robinson (1884) 14 QBD 739 Trade Practices Commission v Gillette Company (No 2) (1993) 118 ALR 280 White v District Court of NSW (1998) 45 NSWLR 313 Woodcock v South Western Electricity Board [1975] 1 WLR 983
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