Miwa Pty Ltd v Siantan Properties Pty Ltd [2010] NSWSC 1203

New South Wales Supreme Court

CITATION : Miwa Pty Ltd v Siantan Properties Pty Ltd [2010] NSWSC 1203

HEARING DATE(S) : 29 September 2010

JUDGMENT DATE : 21 October 2010

JURISDICTION : Equity Division

JUDGMENT OF : Windeyer AJ

1. That the injunctions granted on 6 May 2010 and DECISION : continued on 7 May 2010 be dissolved. 2. That the summons be dismissed. 3. The plaintiff pay the costs of the first defendant.

CATCHWORDS : REAL PROPERTY - Lease with option containing clause that lessor would contribute $45,000 to lessee's cost of fit out - option exercised - when that provision included in new lease. - LEASE - covenant to pay rent without deduction - whether right of set off excluded. - GUARANTEE BONDS - action to restrain beneficiary from calling on bond - whether fact claim for unpaid rent by lessor statute barred prevented claim on bond payable upon demand. - LIMITATION OF ACTIONS - whether claim under bond barred when claim for breach which bond to secure was extinguished by Limitation Act 1969. - DEEDS - construction - whether literal meaning of words absurd so that words intended could be added.

LEGISLATION CITED : Limitation Act 1969 Limitation Act 1980 (UK)

CATEGORY : Principal judgment

Batiste v Lenin [2002] NSWSC 233 Batiste v Lenin [2002] NSWCA 316 Carter v White (1884) 24 Ch D 666 Connaught Restaurants Limited v Indoor Leisure Centre Limited [1994] 1 WLR 501 Grant v NZMC Limited [1989] 1 NZLR 8 CASES CITED : Moraitis Fresh Packaging (NSW) Pty Ltd v Fresh Express (Australia) Pty Limited [2008] NSWCA 327 Pearson & Bridge (NSW) Pty Ltd v State Railway Authority of NSW (1982) BC8200005 R & J Lyons Family Settlement Pty Limited v 155 Macquarie Street Pty Limited [2008] NSWSC 310 Romain & another v Scuba T.V. Ltd [1997] QB 887 Saratoga v Canjs [2010] NSWSC 654 Westpac Banking Corporation v Tanzone Pty Limited [2000] NSWCA 25 Wood Hall Limited v The Pipeline Authority & anor (1979) 141 CLR 433