NSW Caselaw
New South Wales Supreme Court
CITATION : Michael Wilson and Partners Limited v Robert Colin Nicholls & Ors [2009] NSWSC 721
HEARING DATE(S) : 15/6/09, 16/6/09, 23/6/09, 24/06/09, 29/06/09, 30/06/09, 13/07/09, 14/07/09, 23/07/09, 24/07/09, 27/07/09 - 30/07/09
JUDGMENT DATE : 6 August 2009
JURISDICTION : Equity Division Commercial List
JUDGMENT OF : Einstein J
DECISION : The defendants pleadings alleging misrepresentation and alleging that the plaintiff lacked clean hands to be struck out.
CATCHWORDS : Practice and procedure - Pleading issue - Application to strike out misrepresentation defence and unclean hands defence - Misrepresentation is not by and of itself a defence but in certain circumstances may give rise to a cause of action - Explanation of futility of pleading seeking to raise a misrepresentation defence - Consideration of the history of the unclean hands maxim - To say that a man must come into a Court of Equity with clean hands does not mean a general depravity - There must have been an immediate and necessary relation to the Equity sued for-It must be a depravity in a legal as well as in a moral sense-Discussion of the principles which inform the defence of unclean hands
CATEGORY : Procedural and other rulings
Black Uhlans Inc v New South Wales Crime Commission [2002] NSWSC 1060 Carantinos v Magafas [2008] NSWCA 304 Corin v Patton (1990) 169 CLR 540 Curwen v Yan Yean Land Co. Limited (1891) 17 VLR 745 Dering v Earl of Winchelsea (1787) 1 Cox Eq Cas 318; 29 ER 1184 General Steel Industries Inc v Commissioner for Railways (NSW) (1964) 112 CLR 125 CASES CITED : Gibson Motorsport Merchandise Pty Limited v Forbes (2006) 149 FCR 569 Goddard v Midland Railway Co (1891) 8 TLR 126 Hospital Products Limited v United States Surgical Corporation (1984) 156 CLR 41 Kation Pty Limited v Lamru Pty Limited [2009] NSWCA 145 Krakowski v Eurolynx Properties Ltd (1995) 183 CLR 563 Meyers v Casey (1913) 17 CLR 90 Rawley Pty Limited v Bell (No 2) (2007) 61 ACSR 648
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