EKO Investments Pty Limited v Austruc Constructions Limited & Ors; The Owners Strata Plan No. 64970 v Austruc Constructions Limited & Ors (Costs) [2009] NSWSC 371

New South Wales Supreme Court

CITATION : EKO Investments Pty Limited v Austruc Constructions Limited & Ors; The Owners Strata Plan No. 64970 v Austruc Constructions Limited & Ors (Costs) [2009] NSWSC 371

HEARING DATE(S) : 16 and 17 February 2009, 27 April 2009

JUDGMENT DATE : 12 May 2009

JURISDICTION : Equity Division - Technology & Construction List

JUDGMENT OF : Bergin CJ in Eq

DECISION : Various costs orders

CATCHWORDS : [COSTS] - Concurrent proceedings - complex multi-issue, multi-party case - nominal damages - costs of first set of proceedings as finalised

LEGISLATION CITED : Home Building Act 1989

Alltrans Express Ltd v CVA Holdings Ltd [1984] 1 WLR 394 Anglo-Cyprian Trade Agencies Ltd v Paphos Wine Industries Ltd [1951] 1 All ER 873 Eko Investments Pty Limited v Austruc Constructions Limited & Ors; The Owners Strata Plan No. 64970 v Austruc Constructions Limited & Ors [2009] NSWSC 208 CASES CITED : Eko Investments Pty Limited v Austruc Constructions Limited & Ors; The Owners Strata Plan No. 64970 v Austruc Constructions Limited & Ors (No. 2) [2009] NSWSC 329 Fountain Selected Meats (Sales) Pty Ltd v International Produce Merchants Pty Ltd & Ors (1988) 81 ALR 397 J-Corp Pty Ltd v Australian Builders Labourers Federated Union of Workers, Western Australian Branch & Anor (No. 2) (1993) 46 IR 301 Mid-City Skin Cancer & Laser Centre v Zahedi-Anarak [2006] NSWSC 1149

EKO Investments Pty Limited Austruc Constructions Limited PARTIES : Cyril Smith & Associates Pty Limited Slater Lomas Pty Limited The Owners Strata Plan No. 64970 Traditional Windows Pty Limited