Bruce Clyde Bailey v Arnold Neil Bailey [2009] NSWSC 598

New South Wales Supreme Court

CITATION : Bruce Clyde Bailey v Arnold Neil Bailey [2009] NSWSC 598

HEARING DATE(S) : 21 April and 4 June 2009

JUDGMENT DATE : 23 June 2009

JURISDICTION : Equity

JUDGMENT OF : Rein J at 1

DECISION : Leave to file the cross claim refused. The second and third defendants are to pay the plaintiffs' costs.

CATCHWORDS : Application for leave to file a cross claim out of time – delay in bringing cross claim – agreement that the issues arising out of the cross claim will not be determined on the allocated hearing date on liability already fixed – previous agreement by the cross claimants not to advance claims in relation to certain issues in consideration of the plaintiff abandoning a number of paragraphs of the statement of claim

LEGISLATION CITED : Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 2005

CATEGORY : Procedural and other rulings

CSI International Co Ltd v Archway Personnel (Middle East) Ltd [1980] 3 All ER 215 CASES CITED : Stott v West Yorkshire Road Car Co Ltd [1971] 2 QB 651 Wardley Australia Ltd v Western Australia (1992) 175 CLR 514

TEXTS CITED : Ritchie's Uniform Civil Procedure NSW

Bruce Clyde Bailey (First Plaintiff) Janet Beatrice Shafik Bailey (Second Plaintiff) PARTIES : Arnold Neil Bailey (First Defendant) Glenice Margaret Bailey (Second Defendant) Annette Mavis Bailey (Third Defendant)

FILE NUMBER(S) : SC 2313/02

COUNSEL : C Bevan, E Young (First and Second Plaintiffs) M Pesman (Second and Third Defendants)

SOLICITORS : Turner Freeman (First and Second Plaintiffs) Australegal (Second and Third Defendants)