NSW Caselaw
Supreme Court New South Wales
Medium Neutral Citation: GE Healthcare Australia Pty Ltd v Medica Radiology & Nuclear Medicine Pty Ltd [2013] NSWSC 414 Hearing dates: 18-21 February & 23 April 2013 Decision date: 31 May 2013 Jurisdiction: Equity Division - Expedition List Before: Pembroke J Decision: See paragraph [51] Catchwords: EQUITY - promissory estoppel - negative and defensive in substance - does not create rights - necessity for promise that legal right will not be exercised - insufficient if there is merely promise and assumption about conferral of benefit without corresponding promise to refrain from exercising legal right Cases Cited: Commonwealth of Australia v Verwayen (1990) 170 CLR 394; [1990] HCA 39 Con-Stan Industries of Australia Pty Ltd v Norwich Winterthur Insurance (Aust) Ltd (1986) 160 CLR 226; [1986] HCA 14 DHJPM Pty Ltd v Blackthorn Resources Ltd (2011) 285 ALR 311; [2011] NSWCA 348 Dillwyn v Llewellyn (1862) 4 De G F & J 517 Discount & Finance Ltd v Gehrig's NSW Wines Ltd (1940) 40 SR (NSW) 598 Foran v Wight (1989) 168 CLR 385; [1989] HCA 51 Giumelli v Giumelli (1999) 196 CLR 101; [1999] HCA 10 Grundt v Great Boulder Pty Gold Mines Ltd (1937) 59 CLR 641; [1937] HCA 58 Hammond v JP Morgan Trust Australia [2012] NSWCA 295 Hughes v Metropolitan Railway Company (1877) 2 App Cas 439 Legione v Hately (1983) 152 CLR 406; [1983] HCA 11 Ramsden v Dyson (1866) LR 1 HR 129 Selah v Romanous (2010) 79 NSWLR 453; [2010] NSWCA 274 Seven Network (Operations) Ltd v Warburton (No 2) [2011] NSWSC 386 Thomas v SMP (International) Pty Ltd [2010] NSWSC 822 Thompson v Palmer (1933) 49 CLR 507; [1933] HCA 61 Watson v Foxman (1995) 49 NSWLR 315 Category: Principal judgment Parties: GE Healthcare Australia Pty Ltd - plaintiff Medica Radiology & Nuclear Medicine Pty Ltd - first defendant Cortez Enterprises Pty Limited - second defendant Representation: Counsel: J R Lockhart SC - for the plaintiff B W Rayment QC with R D Marshall - for the first and second defendants Solicitors: Ashurst Australia - for the plaintiff Morgan Lewis - for the first and second defendants File Number(s): 2012/00331526
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