Guttershield v LBI Holdings [2009] NSWSC 735

New South Wales Supreme Court

CITATION : Guttershield v LBI Holdings [2009] NSWSC 735

HEARING DATE(S) : 27 July 2009

JUDGMENT DATE : 27 July 2009

JURISDICTION : Equity

JUDGMENT OF : Campbell JA

EX TEMPORE JUDGMENT DATE : 27 July 2009

DECISION : Notice of Motion filed by Plaintiffs dismissed with no orders as to costs. Notice of Motion filed by Defendants dismissed with costs.

CATCHWORDS : PROCEDURE – judgments and orders – power to set aside and vary orders – whether orders can be varied after four years have passed and a hearing of a reference to an associate justice has occurred – whether variation of orders is a change in the price of equitable relief – whether intention of orders miscarried - PROCEDURE – judgments and orders – liberty to apply – whether an attempt to alter the substance of orders falls under liberty to apply - EQUITY – maxims of equity – he who seeks equity must do equity – whether orders made according to the principles of the maxim should be varied – whether variation of orders is a change in the price of equitable relief

Fair Trading Act 1987 LEGISLATION CITED : Supreme Court Rules 1970 Trade Practices Act 1974 (Cth) Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 2005

CATEGORY : Consequential orders

Australian Hardboards Limited v Hudson Investment Group Ltd [2007] NSWCA 104, (2007) 70 NSWLR 201 Autodesk Inc v Dyason (No 2) (1993) 176 CLR 300 Guttershield Systems Australia Pty Limited v LBI Holdings Pty Limited [2008] NSWSC 747 CASES CITED : Guttershield Systems Australia Pty Ltd v LBI Holdings Pty Ltd [2004] NSWSC 901; (2004) 63 IPR 407 Newmont Yandal Operations Pty Ltd v The J Aron Corporation and The Goldman Sachs Group Inc [2007] NSWCA 195; (2007) 70 NSWLR 411 Rockcote Enterprises Pty Ltd v FS Architects Pty Ltd (No 2) [2008] NSWCA 205 Wentworth v Woollahra Municipal Council (1982) 149 CLR 672