Stanley Melbourne Gillett & Anor v Brian John Walsh [2009] NSWSC 1436

New South Wales Supreme Court

CITATION : Stanley Melbourne Gillett & Anor v Brian John Walsh [2009] NSWSC 1436

HEARING DATE(S) : 14/12/09

JUDGMENT DATE : 18 December 2009

JURISDICTION : Equity Division Technology and Construction List

JUDGMENT OF : Einstein J

DECISION : Interlocutory injunction ordered.

CATCHWORDS : Practice and procedure - Strata Schemes Management Act 1996 - Consumer Trade and Tenancy Tribunal - Jurisdiction - Ex parte application to adjudicator for urgent orders restraining defendant from carrying out building works in breach of by-laws - Evidence that adjudicators orders being flouted by defendant - Whether Supreme Court has jurisdiction by interlocutory or other injunction to restrain continuance by defendant of its refusal to abide by the adjudicators orders - Interplay between Consumer Trade and Tenancy Tribunal and Strata Schemes Management Act 1996 - Interlocutory injunctions - Principles

LEGISLATION CITED : Strata Schemes Management Act 1996 Supreme Court Act 1970

CATEGORY : Procedural and other rulings

Appleton Papers Inc v Tomasetti Paper Pty Ltd [1983] 3 NSWLR 208 Buzrio Pty Limited v Consumer, Trader & Tenancy Tribunal [2009] NSWSC 836 CASES CITED : Buzrio Pty Limited v Consumer, Trader & Tenancy Tribunal (No 2) [2009] NSWSC 937 Crawley v Cochrane (1998) NSW Title Cases 80-051 Stollznow v Calvert [1980] 2 NSWLR 749

Stanley Melbourne Gillett (First Plaintiff) PARTIES : Juliana Yvonne Schaeffer (Second Plaintiff) Brian John Walsh (Defendant)

FILE NUMBER(S) : SC 55117/09

COUNSEL : Mr J Young (Plaintiffs) Mr N Eastman (Defendant)