Wilson v GIO General Ltd [2007] NSWSC 1445

New South Wales Supreme Court

CITATION : Wilson v GIO General Ltd [2007] NSWSC 1445

HEARING DATE(S) : 3 December 2007

JUDGMENT DATE : 14 December 2007

JURISDICTION : Common Law

JUDGMENT OF : Associate Justice Harrison

DECISION : (1) The summons filed 20 August is dismissed; (2) The plaintiff is to pay the defendants' costs as agreed or assessed.

CATCHWORDS : Summary dismissal - appeal - Local Court - jury trials in civil matters

Civil Procedure Act 2005 Courts Legislation Amendment (Civil Juries) Act 2001 Courts Legislation (Civil Procedure) Amendment Bill Juries Act 1927 (SA) LEGISLATION CITED : Jury Act 1912 Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1965 New South Wales Act 1823 (4 Geo IVC 96) Supreme Court Act 1970 Supreme Court (Amendment) Act 1987 Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 2005

Apex Pallet Hire Pty Limited v Brambles Holdings Limited (4 April 1988, unreported) Caledonian Collieries Limited v Fenwick (1959) 76 WN (NSW) 482 General Steel Industries Inc v Commissioner for Railways (NSW) (1964) 112 CLR 125 Gerlach v Clifton Bricks Pty Ltd [2002] HCA 22 CASES CITED : O'Brien v Commissioner for Railways (1959 unreported) Pambula District Hospital v Herriman (1988) 14 NSWLR 387 Peck v Email Ltd (1987) 8 NSWLR 430 Smoje v Trend Laboratories Pty Limited (Cole J, 27 May 1988, unreported; 125 NSW 3) W Dazenko Structural and General Engineering Pty Limited v Fraser Hrones and Co Limited (unreported, NSWCA 751/88, 5 October 1990)