93 GSP Pty Ltd v Advent 8 Pty Limited [2013] NSWDC 135

District Court New South Wales

Medium Neutral Citation: 93 GSP Pty Ltd v Advent 8 Pty Limited [2013] NSWDC 135 Hearing dates: 9 May 2013 and 10 May 2013 Decision date: 14 May 2013 Jurisdiction: Civil Before: P Taylor SC DCJ Decision: 1. Judgment for the plaintiff against the second defendant in the sum of $142,555.34 inclusive of interest. 2. Order the second defendant pay the plaintiff's costs of its claim, those costs not to include the costs of the preparation and sending of the Notice of Termination of Lease dated 16 January 2012. 3. Cross-claim be dismissed with no order as to costs. 4. Direct that any written submission by the plaintiff regarding costs be provided by 5pm on 17 May 2013 and that any written submission in reply by the second defendant be provided by 5pm on 21 May 2013. Such written submissions to be limited to two pages. 5. Order the exhibits be returned. Catchwords: LEASE - unpaid rent - termination by re-entry - tenant in liquidation - notice - waiver Legislation Cited: Conveyancing Act 1919, s 129 Corporations Act 2001 (Cth), s 471B Cases Cited: Central Estates (Belgravia) Ltd v Woolgar (No. 2) [1972] 1 WLR 1048 Finley v Russell-Jones (1948) 49 SR (NSW) 96 Franklins Pty Ltd v Metcash Trading Ltd [2009] NSWCA 407 Gagner Pty Ltd (t/as Indochine Café) v Canturi Corporation Pty Ltd (2009) 262 ALR 691 Karacominakis v Big Country Developments Pty Ltd [2000] NSWCA 313 Lewis Construction (Engineering) Pty Ltd v Southern Electric Authority of Queensland (1976) 11 ALR 305 Macquarie International Health Clinic Pty Ltd v Sydney South West Area Health Service (No 3) [2010] NSWSC 1139 Murray-Oates v Jjadd Pty Ltd (1999) 76 SASR 38; [1999] SASC 537 Owendale Pty Ltd v Anthony (1967) 117 CLR 539 Price v Worwood (1859) 4 H & N 512; (1859) 157 ER 941 Rasheed v Burns Philp Trustee Co Ltd (1982) NSW ConvR 55-102 Roper v Johnson (1873) LR8CP 167 Segal Securities Ltd v Thoseby [1963] 1 QB 887 Spathis v Hanave Investments Co Pty Ltd [2002] NSWSC 304 Staehr v Federal Lime Co Ltd [1912] SALR 102 TC Industrial Plant Pty Ltd v Robert's Queensland Pty Ltd [1963] HCA 57 TCN Channel 9 Pty Ltd v Hayden Enterprises Pty Ltd (1989) 16 NSWLR 130 The Barrington Services Group Pty Ltd v Bossy [2012] NSWDC 82 Wong v St Martins Property (Aust) Pty Ltd (New South Wales Supreme Court, McLelland J, 17 October 1990, unreported) Category: Principal judgment Parties: 93 GSP Pty Ltd (ACN 139 586 119) (plaintiff/cross-defendant) Advent 8 Pty Limited (ACN 104 886 106) (first defendant/cross-claimant) David Chee Tin Soo (second defendant) Representation: Mr N Newton (plaintiff/cross-defendant) Mr M Zammitt (second defendant) Thomsons Lawyers (plaintiff/cross-defendant) No appearance (first defendant/cross-claimant) Leigh Adams Lawyers (second defendant) File Number(s): 2012/175992 Publication restriction: No