Conway v Critchley & Ors [2009] NSWSC 499

New South Wales Supreme Court

CITATION : Conway v Critchley & Ors [2009] NSWSC 499

HEARING DATE(S) : 27 May 2009 & 3 June 2009

JUDGMENT DATE : 5 June 2009

JURISDICTION : Equity

JUDGMENT OF : Debelle AJ

CATCHWORDS : TORTS – Trover and Detinue – wine, plant and equipment at winery – sale of winery – plaintiff claims entitlement to possession of wine, plant and equipment – Order that defendants deliver up plant and equipment – late claim for costs of repairs – defendants granted leave to file cross-claim for the cost of repairs

LEGISLATION CITED : Fair Trading Act 1987

CATEGORY : Principal judgment

Agar v Hyde (2000) 201 CLR 552 Air Services Australia v Zarb (Court of Appeal, 26 August 1998, unreported) Burnett v Randwick City Council [2006] NSWCA 196 Dey v Victorian Railway Commissioners (1949) 78 CLR 62 Fancourt v Mercantile Credits Ltd (1983) 154 CLR 87 General Steel Industries Inc v Commissioner for Railways (NSW) (1964) 112 CLR 125 CASES CITED : Greenwood v Bennett [1973] QB 195 Grimwade v Beresford (1974) 9 SASR 157 Lawrence v Griffiths (1987) 47 SASR 455 McKeown v Cavalier Yachts Pty Ltd (1988) 13 NSWLR 303 Rich v CGU Insurance Ltd (2005) 214 ALR 370 Sidebottom v Cureton (1937) 54 WN (NSW) 88 Wallingford v Mutual Society (1880) 5 App Cas 685

David Conway (Plaintiff) Stephen Christopher Critchley (First Defendant) Mudgee Wines Pty Limited (Second Defendant) PARTIES : Eurunderee Wines Pty Limited (Third Defendant) William James Whaley (Fourth Defendant) Jane Margaret McLean (Fifth Defendant) Mark Norman Thompson (Sixth Defendant)