Lucantonio v Kleinert [2009] NSWSC 853

New South Wales Supreme Court

CITATION : Lucantonio v Kleinert [2009] NSWSC 853

HEARING DATE(S) : 10 August 2009 JURISDICTION : Common Law

JUDGMENT OF : Brereton J

EX TEMPORE JUDGMENT DATE : 11 August 2009

DECISION : Tender of report refused. Leave to permit supplementary evidence to be called refused.

CATCHWORDS : EVIDENCE – Expert evidence – professional negligence – admissibility of evidence of what a prudent practitioner would have done in relevant circumstances – necessity for additional or special qualification – necessity for relevant circumstances to be specified – necessity for witnesses' rationale to be articulated

(NSW) Conveyancing Act 1919 s 55(2A) LEGISLATION CITED : (NSW) Evidence Act 1995 s 135 (NSW) Fair Trading Act 1987

CATEGORY : Procedural and other rulings

Fox v Everingham & Howard (1983) 76 FLR 170 Makita (Australia) Pty Ltd v Sprowles [2001] NSWCA 305, (2001) 52 NSWLR 705 MB v Protective Commissioner [2000] NSWSC 718, (2000) 217 ALR 631 CASES CITED : Midland Bank Trust Co Ltd v Hett, Stubbs & Kemp (a firm) [1979] Ch 384 O'Brien v Gillespie (1997) 41 NSWLR 549 Permanent Trustee Australia Limited v Boulton Permanent Trustee Australia Limited (1994) 33 NSWLR 735 Rebelais Pty Ltd v Cameron [1993] ANZ ConvR 457

Dean Lucantonio as trustee for the Lucantonio Family Trust (plaintiff) PARTIES : Jaime Kleinert (first defendant/XC1 first cross-defendant/XC2 cross-claimant) Otto Stichter (second defendant/XC1 cross-claimant/XC2 first cross-defendant) Darryl Leslie Warren (third defendant/XC1 second cross-defendant/XC2 second cross-defendant)