NM Rural Enterprises Pty Ltd v Rimanui Farms Limited [2010] NSWSC 921

New South Wales Supreme Court

CITATION : NM Rural Enterprises Pty Ltd v Rimanui Farms Limited [2010] NSWSC 921

HEARING DATE(S) : 17 August 2010

JUDGMENT DATE : 18 August 2010

JUDGMENT OF : Harrison J

DECISION : The report of Mr McDougall dated 2 November 2005 should be admitted into evidence.

CATCHWORDS : PRACTICE & PROCEDURE – where defendant objected to tender of expert report by plaintiff due to non-compliance with the expert witness code of conduct – where report in largely identical terms to another expert report prepared in collaboration with the first expert – report admissible as the genuine opinion of the expert

LEGISLATION CITED : Supreme Court Rules

CATEGORY : Procedural and other rulings

ASIC v Rich [2005] NSWSC 149 Cooke v Commissioner of Taxation (Cth) [2002] FCA 1315; (2002) 51 ATR 223 Idoport Pty Ltd v National Australia Bank Limited [2001] NSWSC 995 CASES CITED : Investmentsource v Knox St Apartments [2007] NSWSC 1128 Makita (Australia) Pty Ltd v Sprowles [2001] NSWCA 305; (2000-2001) 52 NSWLR 705 Paino v Paino [2005] NSWSC 1313 Ray Fitzpatrick Pty Ltd v Minister for Planning [2007] NSWLEC 791

NM Rural Enterprises Pty Ltd (Plaintiff) PARTIES : Rimanui Farms Limited (First Defendant) Gil Gil Farming Pty Ltd (Second Defendant) Lloyds Syndicate No 1243 (Third Defendant)

FILE NUMBER(S) : SC 2003/93179

J E Maconachie QC with S B Docker and M W E Maconachie COUNSEL : T J Hancock with J P Donohoe and A T Martin (First defendant) B Loukas (Second Defendant) G T W Miller QC with D A Lloyd (Third Defendant)