NSW Caselaw
New South Wales Supreme Court
CITATION : Vimblue Pty Ltd v Toweel trading as Carpenters Core Building [2009] NSWSC 494
HEARING DATE(S) : 01/06/09
JUDGMENT DATE : 5 June 2009
JURISDICTION : Equity Division Corporations List
JUDGMENT OF : Barrett J
DECISION : Statutory demand set aside.
CATCHWORDS : CORPORATIONS - winding up in insolvency - statutory demand - application for order setting aside - whether genuine dispute as to existence or amount of debt - debt represented as quantum meruit - no step taken which fixes reasonable remuneration - no means of determining reasonable remuneration - difference between "liquidated claim" and "liquidated sum"
LEGISLATION CITED : Corporations Act 2001 (Cth), ss 459E(1), 459G, 459H(1)(a) Home Building Act 1989, ss 3(1), 6(1), 7(1), 10(1)
CATEGORY : Principal judgment
Australian Securities and Investments Commission v Edwards [2005] NSWSC 831; (2005) 220 ALR 148 Graywinter Properties Pty Ltd v Gas & Fuel Corporation Superannuation Fund (1996) 70 FCR 452 Lee Gleeson Pty Ltd v Sterling Estates Pty Ltd (1991) 23 NSWLR 571 O'Connor v LEAW Pty Ltd (1997) 42 NSWLR 285 CASES CITED : Pavey & Matthews Pty Ltd v Paul [1987] HCA 5; (1987) 162 CLR 221 Re Ahearn; Ex parte Palmer (1906) 6 SR (NSW) 576 Rothwells Ltd v Nommack (No 100) Pty Ltd [1990] 2 Qd R 85 Spain v Union Steamship Co of New Zealand Ltd [1923] HCA 21; (1923) 32 CLR 138 Stephenson v Weir (1879) 4 LR Ir 369 The Roy Morgan Research Centre Pty Ltd v Wilson Market Research Pty Ltd (No 2) (1996) 20 ACSR 170
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