Sywak v Visnic [No 2] [2010] NSWSC 374

New South Wales Supreme Court

CITATION : Sywak v Visnic [No 2] [2010] NSWSC 374

HEARING DATE(S) : 1 April 2010

JUDGMENT DATE : 30 April 2010

JURISDICTION : Equity

JUDGMENT OF : Slattery J at 1

ORDERS: DECISION : 1. Dismiss the defendant's amended notice of motion; and, 2. Order the defendant to pay the plaintiff's costs of the amended notice of motion.

CATCHWORDS : PROCEDURE - costs - defendant/applicant seeks security for costs - plaintiff/respondent natural person resident in NSW - inherent jurisdiction of Court to make orders for security for costs - whether the plaintiff's claim is bona fide and not a sham - whether the plaintiff has a reasonably good prospect of obtaining the orders sought - whether the plaintiff's action is harassing or vexatious - failure to have the costs orders quantified or assessed - defendant cannot establish that the plaintiff has failed to honour existing costs orders - plaintiff's case is not so unmeritorious that a security for costs order should be made - defendant to pay the plaintiff's costs of the motion

LEGISLATION CITED : Civil Procedure Act 2005 (NSW) s 67 Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 2005 (NSW) rr 42.1, 42.21

CATEGORY : Consequential orders

Byrnes v John Fairfax Publications Pty Limited [2006] NSWSC 251 Friend v Brooker [2009] HCA 21 Idoport Pty Limited v National Australia Bank Limited [2001] NSWSC 744 Morris v Hanley [2000] NSWSC 957 CASES CITED : Port of Melbourne Authority v Anshun (1981) 147 CLR 589 Sywak v Visnic [2010] NSWSC 222 Visnic v Sywak & Ors [2007] NSWSC 701 Visnic v Sywak [2008] NSWSC 427 Visnic v Sywak [2009] NSWCA 173