Permanent Trustee Company Limited v O'Donnell and Anor; Permanent Trustee Company Limited v Di Benedetto and Anor; Tonto Home Loans Australia Pty Limited v Tavares and Anor [2009] NSWSC 271

New South Wales Supreme Court

CITATION : Permanent Trustee Company Limited v O'Donnell and Anor; Permanent Trustee Company Limited v Di Benedetto and Anor; Tonto Home Loans Australia Pty Limited v Tavares and Anor [2009] NSWSC 271

HEARING DATE(S) : 1 April 2009

JUDGMENT DATE : 6 April 2009

JURISDICTION : Common Law

JUDGMENT OF : Price J at 1

DECISION : Offer of assistance from ASIC by way of exhibited material declined

CATCHWORDS : Practice and Prodedure - Evidence - admissibility - intervention by ASIC - whether material subject to rules of evidence - whether material sufficiently convincing to be taken into account

Commonwealth Constitution s 51(vi) Acts Interpretation Act 1901 (Cth) s 15AB Australian Securities & Investment Commission Act 2001 (Cth) s 12A(2), s 12BC(1), s 12CC(1) LEGISLATION CITED : Contracts Review Act 1980 s 9 Corporations Act 2001 (Cth) s 1330(2) Criminal Code (Cth) Subdiv 4 of Div 104 Evidence Act 1995 s 144 Interpretation Act 1987 s 34

CATEGORY : Procedural and other rulings

Elkofari v Permanent Trustee Co Ltd (2003) 11 BPR 20,841 GPG (Australia Trading) Pty Ltd v GIO Holding (2001) 117 FCR 23 CASES CITED : Permanent Trustee Co Ltd v Khoshaba [2006] NSWCA 41 Thomas v Mowbray (2008) 233 CLR 307 Woods v Multi-Sport Holdings Pty Ltd (2008) 208 CLR 460

Permanent Trustee Company Limited (Plaintiff) Gillian O'Donnell & Anor (Defendant) PARTIES : Permanent Trustee Company Limited (Plaintiff) Maria Di Benedetto & Anor (Defendant) Tonto Home Loans Australia Pty Limited (Plaintiff) Jose De Carvalho E Rego Tavares & Anor (Defendant)