Weston v Publishing and Broadcasting Limited [2009] NSWSC 321

Reported Decision : 71 ACSR 577

New South Wales Supreme Court

CITATION : Weston v Publishing and Broadcasting Limited [2009] NSWSC 321

HEARING DATE(S) : 24/04/09

JUDGMENT DATE : 24 April 2009

JURISDICTION : Equity Division Corporations List

JUDGMENT OF : Barrett J

DECISION : Time for service extended

CATCHWORDS : PROCEDURE - time for service of initiating process - application for extension - several earlier extensions - whether plaintiff has shown good reason to extend - whether relevant prejudice to defendants - appropriateness of ex parte application confirmed - need for direction that defendant be informed of rights under the rules questioned - extension granted

LEGISLATION CITED : Corporations Act 2001 (Cth), ss 588FF(1), 588FF(3) Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 2005, rules 1.1(2), 6.2(4)(a), 12.11(1)(e), 12.11(2)

CATEGORY : Principal judgment

Hoddinott v Persimmon Homes [2008] 1 WLR 806 Mason v First Leisure Corporation Plc [2003] EWHC 1814 (QB) Onefone Australia Pty Ltd v One.Tel Ltd [2007] NSWSC 1320 CASES CITED : Rich v Long [2008] NSWSC 487 Simpson v Saskatchewan Government Insurance Office (1967) 65 DLR (2d) 324 Van Leer Australia Pty Ltd v Palace Shipping KK (1981) 55 ALJR 243 Verdich v McKechnie [1981] TasR 91 Weston v Publishing and Broadcasting Ltd [2007] NSWSC 1318

Paul Gerard Weston in his capacity as special purpose liquidator of One.Tel Limited - Plaintiff Publishing and Broadcasting Limited - First Defendant Consolidated Press Holdings Limited - Second Defendant Robbdoc Pty Limited - Third Defendant Toranaga Pty Limited - Fourth Defendant Cavalane Holdings Pty Limited - Fifth Defendant News Limited - Sixth Defendant Leteno Pty Limited - Seventh Defendant James Douglas Packer - Eighth Defendant PARTIES : Peter Wilson Yates - Ninth Defendant Lachlan Keith Murdoch - Tenth Defendant Peter John Macourt - Eleventh Defendant Kevin Beck - Twelfth Defendant Mark Alan Silbermann - Thirteenth Defendant Peter David Howell-Davies - Fourteenth Defendant Pirjo Hannele Kekalainen-Torvinen - Fifteenth Defendant Persons named in Schedule A trading as Freehills who are named in Schedule A to the Statement of Claim filed on 25 May 2007 - Sixteenth Defendant Persons named in Schedule B trading as Ernst & Young who are named in Schedule B to the Statement of Claim filed on 25 May 2007 Persons named in Schedule C trading as Ferrier Hodgson who are named in Schedule C to the Statement of Claim filed on 25 May 2007 - Eighteenth Defendant