Jankar v Dellmain & Ors [2009] NSWSC 766

New South Wales Supreme Court

CITATION : Jankar v Dellmain & Ors [2009] NSWSC 766

HEARING DATE(S) : 3 June 2009

JUDGMENT DATE : 4 September 2009

JURISDICTION : Equity

JUDGMENT OF : Slattery J at 1

Orders: DECISION : (1) The third defendant pay the plaintiff's costs of the interlocutory process and the proceedings. (2) The third defendant pay the first defendant's costs of the interlocutory process and of the proceedings on an indemnity basis.

CATCHWORDS : CORPORATIONS - winding up - application for winding up by court - winding up conceded on the just and equitable basis under s 461(1)(k) Corporations Act 2001 - winding up would have been justified under s 461(1)(e) Corporations Act 2001 had it been fully contested - a winding up under s 461(1)(f) Corporations Act 2001 would also have been justified - third defendant engages in oppressive conduct - third defendant unreasonably causes the first defendant defend the proceedings - COSTS - an order that the third defendant pay the plaintiff's costs - an order that the third defendant indemnify the first defendant in respect of its defence costs

LEGISLATION CITED : Corporations Act 2001 Civil Procedure Act 2005

CATEGORY : Principal judgment

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