Macquarie International Health Clinic Pty Ltd v Sydney South West Area Health Service (No. 2) [2009] NSWSC 629

New South Wales Supreme Court

CITATION : Macquarie International Health Clinic Pty Ltd v Sydney South West Area Health Service (No. 2) [2009] NSWSC 629

HEARING DATE(S) : 01.08.08, 13.10.08, 03.12.08, 03.02.09, 12.03.09, 16.04.09, 20.04.09 (final submissions received 5pm 23.04.09)

JUDGMENT DATE : 7 July 2009

JUDGMENT OF : Nicholas J

DECISION : pars 175 - 179

CATCHWORDS : CROSS-CLAIM – contracts – agreements to lease real property and construct a private hospital and car park thereon – termination of agreement – cross-defendant in default of agreements by reason of failure to complete car park – whether claims under agreements accrued prior to termination – whether agreements provided right to recover damages after termination – questions turn on own facts – no general principles involved – whether cross-defendant entitled under terms of hospital lease or on restitutionary grounds to recover expenditure for car park completion

LEGISLATION CITED : Conveyancing Act 1919

CATEGORY : Principal judgment

BP Refinery (Westernport) Pty Ltd v Shire of Hastings (1977) 180 CLR 266 Lumbers v W Cook Builders Pty Ltd (In liq) [2008] HCA 27; (2008) 232 CLR 635 CASES CITED : McDonald v Dennys Lascelles Ltd [1933] HCA 25; (1933) 48 CLR 457 Photo Production Ltd v Securicor Transport Ltd [1980] AC 827 Roxborough v Rothmans of Pall Mall Australia Ltd [2001] HCA 68; (2001) 208 CLR 516 Tanwar Enterprises Pty Ltd v Cauchi [2003] HCA 57; (2003) 217 CLR 315

PARTIES : Macquarie International Health Clinic Pty Ltd - plaintiff/cross-defendant Sydney South West Area Health Service - defendant/cross-claimant