Sleeman v Tuloch Pty Ltd t/as Palms on Oxford (No 4) [2013] NSWDC 111

District Court New South Wales

Medium Neutral Citation: Sleeman v Tuloch Pty Ltd t/as Palms on Oxford (No 4) [2013] NSWDC 111 Hearing dates: 19 July 2013 Decision date: 19 July 2013 Jurisdiction: Civil Before: Gibson DCJ Decision: (1) On the application of the plaintiff, the hearing of the defendants' application for a costs order against Mr Dezarnaulds today is vacated. (2) Mr Dezarnaulds is to pay the costs thrown away by reason of the vacation of the hearing date on an indemnity basis, the application not having been notified prior to 11.03pm on Thursday 18 July 2013. (3) The defendants' application for a costs order against Mr Dezarnaulds for the whole proceedings (or part thereof) is stood over part-heard for directions to Friday 16 August at 9.00am. (4) LawCover, or any solicitor instructed on its behalf (or by Mr Dezarnaulds directly) is to file any Notice of Appearance in the costs application in 14 days. (5) Order (2) of the judgment handed down on 19 June 2013 is varied to provide that the plaintiff pay the first to third defendants' costs of these proceedings on an indemnity basis. Catchwords: COSTS - defendants seek costs of the proceedings pursuant to s 40(2)(b) Defamation Act 2005 (NSW) - whether plaintiff unreasonably failed to accept defendants' offer of amends Legislation Cited: Defamation Act 1974 (NSW), s 48A Defamation Act 2005 (NSW), ss 15(3),17 and 40 Limitation Act 1969 (NSW), s 56A(2) Liquor Act 2007 (NSW) Supreme Court (General Civil Procedure) Rules 2005 (Vic), r 26.08(3) Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 2005 (NSW), Pt 42 Div 3, r 42.15A Cases Cited: Bechara v Bonacorso (No 5) [2010] NSWDC 260 Calderbank v Calderbank [1975] 3 All ER 333 Cornes v The Ten Group Pty Ltd (No. 2) [2011] SASC 141 Davis v Nationwide News Pty Ltd [2008] NSWSC 946 Dean v Stockland Property Management Pty Ltd (No 2) [2010] NSWCA 141 Haddon v Forsyth (No 2) [2011] NSWSC 693 Hocken v Morris (No. 2) [2011] QDC 137 Hyndes v Nationwide News Pty Ltd [2011] NSWSC 1443 Jones v Sutton (No. 2) [2005] NSWCA 203 Manefield v Child Care NSW (No 2) [2011] NSWSC 104 Mizikovsky v Queensland Television Limited & Ors [2013] QCA 68 National Auto Glass Supplies (Aust) Pty Ltd v Nielsen & Moller Auto Glass (NSW) Pty Ltd (No. 9) [2007] FCA 1826 Noonan v MacLennan [2010] QCA 50 Old v McInnes [2011] NSWCA 410 Pingel v Toowoomba Newspapers Pty Ltd [2010] QCA 175 Rayney v State of Western Australia (No 3) [2010] WASC 83 Ryan v Premachandran (New South Wales Supreme Court, Nicholas J, 13 November 2009) Szanto v Melville (Ruling) [2011] VSC 618 West v Nationwide News Pty Ltd [2003] NSWSC 767 Texts Cited: Mr David Barr MLA, Defamation Amendment (Costs) Bill 2003 (Hansard, 16 October 2003, p. 4027) Mr Debus MLA, Defamation Bill 2005 (Second Reading Speech, 13 September 2005, p. 17637) Category: Costs Parties: Plaintiff: Richard Sleeman First Defendant: Tuloch Pty Ltd (ACN 086 654 140) t/as Palms on Oxford Second Defendant: Peter Inwood Third Defendant: Rodney Innes Representation: Plaintiff: Ms L Evans Defendants: Ms S Chrysanthou / Ms B R Styles Plaintiff: Camille E Dezarnaulds & Associates Defendants: Sylvester & Browne Lawyers File Number(s): 2012/225941 Publication restriction: None