NSW Caselaw
New South Wales Supreme Court
CITATION : Public Transport Ticketing Corporation v Integrated Transit Solutions Ltd & Anor [2009] NSWSC 54
HEARING DATE(S) : 13/2/09
JUDGMENT DATE : 18 February 2009
JURISDICTION : Equity Division Commercial List
JUDGMENT OF : Einstein J
DECISION : Save in a limited respect, application by plaintiff for security for costs to be paid by defendants to be dismissed.
CATCHWORDS : Practice and procedure - Security for costs - Power to order security for costs - Principles - Following commencement of proceedings by Public Transport Ticketing Corporation seeking damages for breach of contract, Integrated Transit Solutions and ERG Ltd file cross claims - Plaintiff seeks security for costs - Examination of restructure of ERG - Whether restructure constituted a manipulative device designed to insulate ERG from litigation risk exposure - Whether defendants' cross-claims appropriately characterised as essentially 'defensive proceedings' - Discovery - Defendants' application for additional discovery to be allowed
Civil Procedure Act 2005 (NSW) LEGISLATION CITED : Corporations Act 2001(Cth) Supreme Court Act 1970 (NSW) Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 2005 (NSW)
CATEGORY : Procedural and other rulings
Accidental & Marine Insurance Co v Mercati (1866) LR3Eq 200 Bell Wholesale Co Pty Ltd v Gates Export Corporation (No 2) (1984) 2 FCR 1 Bhagat v Murphy [2000] NSWSC 892 Bhattcharya v Freedman [2001] NSWSC 498 Bryan E Fencott & Associates Pty Ltd v Eretta Pty Ltd (1987) 16 FCR 497 Buckley v Bennell Design and Construction Pty Limited (1974) 1 ACLR 301 Caruso Australia Pty Ltd v Portec (Aust) Pty Ltd (1984) 8 ACLR 818 Classic Ceramic Importers Pty Limited v Ceramica Antiga SA (1994) 13 ACSR 263 Gentry Bros Pty Ltd v Wilson Brown & Associates Pty Ltd (1992) 8 ACSR 405 Grant v The Banque Franco-Egyptienne (1876) 1 CPD 143 Green (as Liquidator of Arimco Mining Pty Ltd) v CGU Insurance Ltd (2008) 67 ACSR 105 Harpur v Ariadne Australia Ltd (No 2) [1984] 2 Qd R 523 at 532; (1984) 8 ACLR 835 Heller Factors Pty Ltd v John Arnold's Surf Shop Pty Ltd (in liq) (1979) ACLC 32-446 Hession v Century 21 South Pacific Ltd (in liq) (1992) 28 NSWLR 120 Hutchison Telephone (UK) Ltd v Ultimate Response Ltd [1993] BCLC 307 Interwest Ltd v Tricontinental Corporation Ltd (1991) 5 ACSR 621; (1991) 9 ACLC 1218 CASES CITED : Jazabas Pty Limited v Haddad (2007) 65 ACSR 276 KP Cable Investments Pty Limited v Meltglow Pty Limited (1995) 56 FCR 189 MA Productions Pty Ltd v Austarama Television Pty Ltd & Anor (1982) 7 ACLR 97 Memutu v Lissenden (1983) 8 ACLR 364 Merribee Pastoral Industries Pty Limited v Australia & New Zealand Banking Group Limited (1998) 193 CLR 502 Morris v Hanley [2000] NSWSC 957 PS Chellaram & Co Ltd v China Ocean Shipping Co (1991) 65 ALJR 642 Rajski v Computer Manufacture and Design Pty Limited (1983) 2 NSWLR 122; (1982) 2 NSWLR 443 Sent & Petres & Collier v Jet Corporation of Australia Pty Ltd (1984) 2 FCR 201 Smail v Burton [1975] VR 776 Stanley-Hill v Kool [1982] 1 NSWLR 460 Sydmar Pty Ltd v Statewise Developments Pty Ltd (1987) 5 ACLC 480 Silver Fir, The [1980] 1 Lloyd's Rep 371 Thistle Hotels Ltd v Gamma Four Ltd [2004] EWHC 322 Travelodge Australia Limited, Re (1978) 21 ACTR 17 Weily's Quarries v Devine Shipping Pty Ltd (1994) 14 ACSR 186 Yandil Holdings Pty Ltd v Insurance Co of North America (1985) 3 ACLC 542
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