Agricultural & Rural Finance Pty Limited & Anor v John Edward Atkinson & Ors [2010] NSWSC 425

New South Wales Supreme Court

CITATION : Agricultural & Rural Finance Pty Limited & Anor v John Edward Atkinson & Ors [2010] NSWSC 425

HEARING DATE(S) : 6/4/10, 13/4/10 - 16/4/10, 19/4/10, 21/4/10, 22/4/10, 28/4/10, 29/4/10, 3/5/10 - 6/5/10

JUDGMENT DATE : 10 May 2010

JURISDICTION : Equity Division Commercial List

JUDGMENT OF : Einstein J

DECISION : Reasons given for findings limiting defendants Contract Review claim to pleaded claim.

CATCHWORDS : Practice and Procedure - Reach of pleadings - Whether evidence sought to be adduced by defendants within Contracts Review Act pleading - Requirement for parties to be confined to their pleaded cases - Case management considerations

Civil Procedure Act 2005 (NSW) LEGISLATION CITED : Contracts Review Act (1980) NSW Supreme Court Act 1970 (NSW) Trade Practices Act (1974) Cth

CATEGORY : Procedural and other rulings

CASES CITED : Aon Risk Services Australia Limited v Australian National University [2009] HCA 27

Agricultural and Rural Finance Pty Limited (Plaintiff) John Edward Atkinson (1st Defendant) Peter Brakatselos (14th Defendant) Geoffrey Neville Frederickson (35th Defendant) Allan Patrick Holmes (52nd Defendant) Nicholas Charles Rowe (75th Defendant) Maria Francesca Russo (78th Defendant) David James Wardle (95th Defendant) PARTIES : Jennifer Dianne Wallace (124th Defendant) Franco Giannuzzi (149th Defendant) Gavin Winston Long (172nd Defendant) Maria Michael (177th Defendant) Robert John George Miles (179th Defendant) Maria Francesca Russo (189th Defendant) Christina Spyrakis (193rd Defendant) Oceania Agriculture Limited (Second Cross Defendant)