Career Training on Line Pty Ltd v B E S Training Solutions Pty Ltd; v Buckland [2010] NSWSC 460

New South Wales Supreme Court

CITATION : Career Training on Line Pty Ltd v B E S Training Solutions Pty Ltd; v Buckland [2010] NSWSC 460

HEARING DATE(S) : 10/05/10

JUDGMENT DATE : 14 May 2010

JURISDICTION : Equity Division Corporations List

JUDGMENT OF : Barrett J

DECISION : Originating process dismissed with costs.

CATCHWORDS : CORPORATIONS - winding up - statutory demand - application for order setting aside - time limit in s 459G measured from service of statutory demand - service by leaving at registered office - ascertaining situation of registered office defined by street address, floor number and accountancy practice - where street doors habitually locked carried sign identifying those doors as access to accountancy practice - observations on service outside normal office hours

LEGISLATION CITED : Companies Act 1961, s 222 Corporations Act 2001 (Cth) ss 109X(1)(a), 145(1), 459E, 459G

CATEGORY : Principal judgment

Cornick Pty Ltd v Brains Master Corporation (1995) 60 FCR 565 David Grant & Co Pty Ltd v Westpac Banking Corporation [1995] HCA 43; (1995) 184 CLR 265 Falgat Constructions Pty Ltd v Equity Australia Corporation Pty Ltd [2006] NSWCA 259; (2006) 23 BCL 292 James v Ash Electrical Services Pty Ltd [2008] NSWSC 1112; (2008) 73 NSWLR 95 CASES CITED : Jin Xin Investment and Trade (Australia) Pty Ltd v ISC Property Pty Ltd [2006] NSWSC 7; (2006) 196 FLR 350 Nutri-Care Ltd v ACN 080 663 754 Pty Ltd [2009] SASC 72 Re Emeritus Pty Ltd [1967] 1 NSWR 458 Saferack Pty Ltd v Marketing Heads Australia Pty Ltd [2007] NSWSC 1143; (2007) 214 FLR 393 SV Steel Supplies Pty Ltd v Palwizat [2007] QSC 24; (2007) 208 FLR 113