JKB Holdings Pty Limited v de la Vega [2013] NSWSC 501

Supreme Court New South Wales

Medium Neutral Citation: JKB Holdings Pty Limited v de la Vega [2013] NSWSC 501 Hearing dates: 08.04.2013 Decision date: 08 May 2013 Jurisdiction: Equity Division Before: Lindsay J Decision: Order that the defendants' Motion (for payment of funds out of court) be dismissed Catchwords: PROCEDURE - Supreme Court procedure - New South Wales - Procedure under Uniform Civil Procedure Rules - Payment into and out of court - Land in dispute registered in names of defendants - Proceeds of sale of land paid into court - Defendants granted charge over funds in court in favour of their lawyers - Funds in court insufficient to satisfy costs entitlement of plaintiffs and defendants' lawyers - Application by defendants for payment out for benefit of their lawyers - Application refused.

PROCEDURE - Judgments and orders - In general - Defendants' previous application for payment out of court refused - Whether principles of res judicata or issue estoppel bar another application for payment out of court by defendants - Whether principles governing abuse of process bar another application for payment out of court by defendants. Legislation Cited: Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 2005 NSW Civil Procedure Act 2005 NSW Trustee Act 1925 NSW Legal Profession Act 2004 NSW Corporations Act 2001 (Cth) Australian Constitution, Part III Cases Cited: La Trobe Capital [2009] NSWSC 1118 at [8]-[16] La Trobe Capital & Mortgage Corporation Limited [No 2] [2009] NSWSC 1372 at [2], [36], [38] and [49] Commonwealth Bank of Australia v Estate of the Late Mahmoud Slieman [2010] NSWSC 661 at [6]-[11] Jackson v Sterling Industries Limited (1987) 162 CLR 612 Cardile v LED Builders Pty Limited (1999) 198 CLR 380 Meehan v Glazier Holdings Pty Ltd (2002) 54 NSWLR 146 at 153 [35]-[36] Derrawee Pastoral Co Pty Ltd v McConochie (unreported, 24 February 1995) A Hudson Pty Limited v Legal & General Life of Australia Limited (1985) 1 NSWLR 701 at 712A-C, 714G-715B, 716C-717B and 718B-E Rajski v Computer Manufacture & Design Pty Limited [1982] 2 NSWLR 443 at 451G-452A Avco Financial Services Limited v Commonwealth Bank of Australia (1989) 17 NSWLR 679 at 683C Shirlaw (now Rogers) v Malouf (1989) 15 ACLR 641 at 647-648; Equuscorp Pty Ltd v Wilmoth, Field Warne (a firm) [2006] VSCA 123 at [22]-[24]; Gizonic v Suttor [2011] NSWSC 471 at [48] Cf, Re Caboolture Park Shopping Centre Pty Ltd v White Industries (Qld) Pty Ltd [1989] FCA 548; 90 ALR 589 at [16]-[19] La Trobe Capital & Mortgage Corporation Limited [No 2] [2009] NSWSC 1372 at [33] JKB Holdings Pty Ltd v de la Vega (No 4) [2012] NSWSC 1177 at [2]-[7] Australian Hardboards Limited v Hudson Investment Group Limited (2007) 70 NSWLR 201 at 214 [52] Carr v Finance Corporation of Australia Ltd (1981) 147 CLR 246 at 248 Nominal Defendant v Manning (2000) 50 NSWLR 155-156 [71]-[73] and 167 [122]. 139 at 167 [122] Buckley v Bennell Design and Constructions Pty Ltd (1974) 1 ACLR 301 Stanley-Hill v Kool [1982] 1 NSWLR 460 at 464C-E Southern Cross Exploration NL v All Risks Insurance Co Ltd (1985) 1 NSLR 114;Sagacious Procurement Pty Ltd v Symbion Health Ltd [2007] NSWCA 205 at [49]-[55]) Blair v Curran (1939) 62 CLR 464 at 531-533 Kuligowski v Metrobus (2004) 220 CLR 363 at 373 [21] and 374-375 [25] National Parks and Wildlife Service v Pierson (2002) 55 NSWLR 315 at 317-318 [13]-[17] Adam P Brown Male Fashions Pty Limited v Phillip Morris Incorporated (1981) 148 CLR 170 at 177-178 Re Delta Landscaping Pty Limited v Bell Dies Pty Limited (1990) 20 NSWLR 508 at 509E-G Macguire v Makaronis (1997) 188 CLR 449 at 466-467 Country Law Services v Duff [2007] NSWSC 1509 at [33]-[35] Law Society of New South Wales v Foreman (1994) 34 NSWLR 408 at 435E-436C and 437C Commercial Banking Company of Sydney Limited v Colonial Financiers of Australia Pty Limited [1972] VR 702 at 705 and 706 Coshott v Sakic (1988) 44 NSWLR 667 at 672B-D Morgan v 45 Flers Avenue Pty Ltd (1987) 11 NSWLR 573 at 579D-E. Codelfa Construction Pty Ltd v State Rail Authority of NSW (1982) 149 CLR 337 at 352; Western Export Services Inc v Jineh International Pty Ltd [2011] HCA 45; 86 ALJR 1 at [3]-[5] Equuscorp Pty Ltd v Glengallan Investments Pty Limited (2004) 218 CLR 471 at 483-484 [33]-[35]) Australian Consolidated Press v Morgan (1965) 112 CLR 483 at 491, 492 and 503 Commissioner of Stamp Duties (Qld) v Livingston [1965] AC 694 at 717C-F Livingston v Commissioner of Stamp Duties (Queensland) (1960) 107 CLR 411 at 435 McLean v Burns Philp Trustee Co Pty Limited (1985) 2 NSWLR 623 at 634E Norman v Federal Commissioner of Taxation (1963) 109 CLR 9 at 24-34 Avco Financial Services Limited v Commonwealth Bank of Australia (1989) 17 NSWLR 679 at 681G Xenos v National Australia Bank Ltd [2007] NSWSC 973 at [24]-[29] New South Wales v The Commonwealth [No 3] (1932) 46 CLR 246 at 260-261, 262, 266 and 268 Duncan (as Trustee for the bankrupt estate of Garrett) v National Australia Bank Limited [2006] SASC 239; 235 ALR 385 at [31], [35], [39], [41] and [46]-[56 The Registrar of the Accident Compensation Tribunal v Federal Commissioner for Taxation (1993) 178 CLR 145 at 161, 163-164, 168-169 and 171 Re McJannet; Ex parte Minister for Employment, Training and Industrial Relations (1995) 184 CLR 620 at 664n 132 Texts Cited: JM Bennett, A History of the Supreme Court of New South Wales (Law Book Co, Sydney, 1974), pp 90 and 137. Category: Principal judgment Parties: JKB Holdings Pty Ltd ACN 089 683 929 (First Plaintiff) Jason Mark Schwede (Second Plaintiff) Karen Elizabeth Schwede (Third Plaintiff) Alejandro Jose de la Vega (First Defendant) Lynette Margaret de la Vega (Second Defendant) Representation: R Kaye SC with S Reuben appeared for the Defendants/Applicants M Steele appeared for the Plaintiffs/Respondents Lawyers Queensland (Plaintiffs/Respondents) Charles Roth Solicitors (Defendants/Applicants) File Number(s): 2010/0228124