Churnin v Pilot Developments Pty Ltd; Mason v Pilot Developments Pty Ltd; Cheetham v Pilot Developments Pty Ltd; Blackman v Pilot Developments Pty Ltd; Blackman v Pilot Developments Pty Ltd; Glover v Pilot Developments Pty Ltd [2007] NSWSC 1459

New South Wales Supreme Court

CITATION : Churnin v Pilot Developments Pty Ltd; Mason v Pilot Developments Pty Ltd; Cheetham v Pilot Developments Pty Ltd; Blackman v Pilot Developments Pty Ltd; Blackman v Pilot Developments Pty Ltd; Glover v Pilot Developments Pty Ltd [2007] NSWSC 1459

HEARING DATE(S) : 4, 5 and 6 September 2007

JUDGMENT DATE : 14 December 2007

JURISDICTION : Equity Division

JUDGMENT OF : Young CJ in Eq

DECISION : The plaintiffs in 2031/01 to pay the first defendant $76,931 as compensation resulting from an undertaking to the court as to damages: pro rata orders in other matters.

CATCHWORDS : EQUITY [343] Equitable remedies- Injunctions- Interlocutory injunctions- Undertaking as to damages- How damages ought to be calculated when sales of units frustrated by injunction.

LEGISLATION CITED : Supreme Court Rules 1970, Pt 28 r7(2) (repealed) Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 2005, r 25.8

Air Express Ltd v Ansett Transport Industries (Operations) Pty Ltd (1979) 146 CLR 249 Alexander v Cambridge Credit Corporation Ltd (1987) 9 NSWLR 310 Cheltenham & Gloucester Building Society v Ricketts [1993] 1 WLR 1545 Evans & Associates v Citibank Ltd [2007] NSWSC 1004 CASES CITED : F Hoffmann-La Roche & Co AG v Secretary of State for Trade and Industry [1975] AC 295 National Provincial Bank Ltd v Ainsworth [1965] AC 1175 Prosser v Hughes (1835) 1 Y & C Ex 481; 160 ER 196 Smith v Day (1882) 21 Ch D 421 Victorian Onion & Potato Growers' Association v Finnigan [1922] VLR 819

2031/01: Brian Churnin (P1) Janet Churnin (P2) Pilot Developments Pty Ltd (D1) Beacon Development Corporation Pty Ltd (D2) Parterre Glebe Pty Ltd (D3) 3386/01: Brendan Linnell Mason (P1) Juliet Anne Evelyn London (P2) Pilot Developments Pty Ltd (D1) Beacon Development Corporation Pty Ltd (D2) Parterre Glebe Pty Ltd (D3) 3298/01: David Mark Blackman (P1) Brigitte Rose Blackman (P2) PARTIES : Pilot Developments Pty Ltd (D1) Beacon Development Corporation Pty Ltd (D2) Parterre Glebe Pty Ltd (D3) 3300/01: David Mark Blackman (P1) Brigitte Rose Blackman (P2) Jeffrey Edward Blackman (P3) Pilot Developments Pty Ltd (D1) Beacon Development Corporation Pty Ltd (D2) Parterre Glebe Pty Ltd (D3) 2444/01: Richard Ronald Glover (P) Pilot Developments Pty Ltd (D1) Beacon Development Corporation Pty Ltd (D2) Parterre Glebe Pty Ltd (D3)