NSW Caselaw
New South Wales Supreme Court
CITATION : Grammer v Johnson [2009] NSWSC 1360 This decision has been amended. Please see the end of the judgment for a list of the amendments.
HEARING DATE(S) : 04/12/09
JUDGMENT DATE : 4 December 2009
JURISDICTION : Equity Division
JUDGMENT OF : Barrett J
EX TEMPORE JUDGMENT DATE : 4 December 2009
DECISION : Summons dismissed with costs.
CATCHWORDS : EQUITY - confidential information - application by former client for injunction to restrain solicitors from acting - application based wholly on apprehension of misuse of confidential information about plaintiff's financial position - where last instructions given four years ago - where no substantial instructions given for many years - where any confidential information about financial position that solicitors did obtain was obtained fourteen or more years ago - not established that solicitors possess any relevant information or that reasonable person would have apprehension of misuse of any information
LEGISLATION CITED : Petroleum (Onshore) Act 1991
CATEGORY : Principal judgment
Commonwealth Bank of Australia v Kyriackou [2008] VSC 146 CASES CITED : Kallinicos v Hunt [2005] NSWSC 1181; (2005) 64 NSWLR 561 Pinnacle Living Pty Ltd v Elusive Image Pty Limited [2006] VSC 202 Slaveski v State of Victoria [2009] VSC 540
Steven Charles Grammer - Plaintiff PARTIES : Gregory Owen Myers Johnson - First Defendant Russell John Booby - Second Defendant Bell & Johnson Solicitors Pty Limited - Third Defendant
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