Dense Medium Separation Powders Pty Limited trading as DMS Powders v Gondwana Chemicals Pty Ltd & Anor [2010] NSWSC 1309

New South Wales Supreme Court

CITATION : Dense Medium Separation Powders Pty Limited trading as DMS Powders v Gondwana Chemicals Pty Ltd & Anor [2010] NSWSC 1309

HEARING DATE(S) : 8 October 2010 JURISDICTION : Equity Division Commercial List

JUDGMENT OF : Brereton J

EX TEMPORE JUDGMENT DATE : 8 October 2010

DECISION : Grant leave to the plaintiff to further amend its list statement. No order for further discovery made.

CATCHWORDS : PROCEDURE – Supreme Court Procedure – New South Wales – Procedure under Uniform Civil Procedure Rules and other rules of court – Amendment – whether plaintiff should be granted to leave to further amend its list statement – - PROCEDURE – Discovery and interrogatories – Discovery and inspection of documents – whether defendants should be ordered to give further discovery – PROCEDURE – Pleading – Particulars – whether further and better particulars should be provided

CATEGORY : Procedural and other rulings

Kent Coal Concessions Limited v Duguid [1910] AC 452. CASES CITED : Martell v Victorian Coal Miners' Association (1903) 9 ALR 231 Pendlebury v O'Neill (1911) 11 SR (NSW) 188

Dense Medium Separation Powders Pty Limited trading as DMS Powders (plaintiff) PARTIES : Gondwana Chemicals Pty Limited (first defendant) David Maxwell Willetts (second defendant)

FILE NUMBER(S) : SC 2010/59719

COUNSEL : V Simpkins SC w V McWilliam (plaintiff) A Cheshire (defendants)

SOLICITORS : PricewaterhouseCoopers (plaintiff) Colin Biggers & Paisley (defendants)

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF NEW SOUTH WALES EQUITY DIVISION COMMERCIAL LIST