Kim Michael Productions Pty Ltd v Tropical Islands Management Ltd [2010] NSWSC 269

New South Wales Supreme Court

CITATION : Kim Michael Productions Pty Ltd v Tropical Islands Management Ltd [2010] NSWSC 269

HEARING DATE(S) : 22/07/2009, 07/09/2009, 02/10/2009

JUDGMENT DATE : 14 April 2010

JUDGMENT OF : Howie J at 1

DECISION : Leave to amend the Statement of Claim granted. Further proceedings based upon the Amended Statement of Claim are stayed. The plaintiff is to pay the defendants' cost.

CATCHWORDS : PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE - Service of originating process out of jurisdiction - Whether breach of contract in the State - PRIVATE INTERNATIONAL LAW - Stay of proceedings - Clearly inappropriate forum - Contract - Whether breach in the State

Supreme Court Rules - rules 22.2, 11.7(2)(a), Schedule 6 para (b), (c) LEGISLATION CITED : Trade Practices Act 1974 (Cth) Rule 6.19 of the UCPR

CATEGORY : Procedural and other rulings

Stanley Kerr Holdings Pty Ltd v Gibor Textile Enterprises Ltd (1987) 2 NSWLR 373 Safran v Chan (1970) 1 NSWR 70 Voth Manildra Flour Mills Pty Ltd (1990) 171 CLR 538 Shallay Holdings Pty Limited v Griffith Co-Operative Society Limited [1983] 1 VR 760; (1982) 48 ALR 304 Hawkins v Clayton (1988) 164 CLR 539 McDonald v Dennys Lascelles Ltd (1933) 48 CLR 457 Integral Home Loans Pty Ltd and Anor v Intestar Wholesale Finance [2007] NSWSC 406 CASES CITED : Hawkins v Clayton (1988) 164 CLR 539 News Corporation v Lenfest Communications Inc (1966) 21 ACSR 553 Oceanic Sen Line Special Shipping Co Inc v Fay [1988] HCA 32; (1988) 165 CLR 197 Puttick v Tenon Ltd [2008] HCA 54; (2008) 238 CLR 265 Murakami v Wiryadi [2010] NSWCCA 7 Henry v Henry [1996] HCA 51; (1996) 185 CLR 571 Garsec Pty Limited v His Majesty the Sultan of Brunei (2008) 250 ALR 682 Amaca Pty Limited v Frost [2006] NSWCCA 173; (2006) 67 NSWLR 635