Bonner v Fauna Productions Pty Ltd [2009] NSWSC 604

New South Wales Supreme Court

CITATION : Bonner v Fauna Productions Pty Ltd [2009] NSWSC 604

HEARING DATE(S) : 23 June 2009

JUDGMENT DATE : 1 July 2009

JUDGMENT OF : Gzell J

DECISION : Second further amended statement of claim to be struck out and plaintiff's proceedings to be dismissed.

CATCHWORDS : PROCEDURE - Summary Termination - alleged agreement that in consideration of entering work agreement as an actor in a television series, defendant would pay the plaintiff a reasonable share of profits if the show was successful - whether a claim in the nature of a quantum meruit - whether a liquidated demand - whether an unenforceable agreement to agree - whether the Limitation Act 1969 likely to defeat any claim - earlier pleading struck out and leave to replead granted - whether further leave should be granted

LEGISLATION CITED : Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 2005 Supreme Court Act 1970

CATEGORY : Principal judgment

Dey v Victorian Railways Commissioners (1948-1949) 78 CLR 62 General Steel Industries Inc v Commissioner for Railways (NSW) (1964) 112 CLR 125 Penthouse Publications Ltd v McWilliam (Court of Appeal, 14 March 1991, unreported) De Bernardy v Harding (1853) 8 Exch 822 at 824; 155 ER 1586 Planché v Colburn (1931) 8 Bing 14; 131 ER 305 Steven v Bromley & Son [1919] 2 KB 722 Craven-Ellis v Canons Ltd [1936] 2 KB 403 CASES CITED : Pavey & Matthews Pty Ltd v Paul (1986-1987) 162 CLR 221 Clay v Yates (1856) 1 H & N 73; 156 ER 1123 Way v Latilla [1937] 3 All ER 759 Booker Industries Pty Ltd v Wilson Parking (Qld) Pty Ltd (1982) 149 CLR 600 Australis Media Holdings Pty Ltd v Telstra Corporation Ltd (1998) 43 NSWLR 104 Spain v Union Steamship Co of New Zealand Ltd (1923) 32 CLR 138 Segur v Franklin (1934) 34 SR (NSW) 67 Peter Kent Development Pty Limited v The Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited (Supreme Court of New South Wales, Hunt J, 6 May 1980, unreported)