Palermo Seafoods Pty Ltd v Lunapas Pty Ltd (No 2) [2014] NSWSC 1323

Supreme Court New South Wales

Medium Neutral Citation: Palermo Seafoods Pty Ltd v Lunapas Pty Ltd (No 2) [2014] NSWSC 1323 Hearing dates: 28 August 2014 Decision date: 26 September 2014 Jurisdiction: Equity Division Before: Young AJA Decision: The defendant is to pay the plaintiff $9,500. Dismiss the proceedings with costs. Catchwords: LANDLORD AND TENANT - rent - recoupment from rent - whether right of recoupment is analogous to payment of rent in advance - whether right of recoupment exists beyond the next rent day after the expense was paid by the tenant - whether tenant has election of deducting payment from the next rent or suing the landlord for recovery of payment - where claim for recoupment not made against the following rent - where claim for recoupment made against rent due under a subsequent lease

LANDLORD AND TENANT - rights and liabilities - tenant's chattels following termination - whether tenant is entitled to damages for confiscation of its chattels following termination - where landlord took possession prematurely - where tenancy at will - where time allowed for removal of chattels was unreasonable -whether contruction of contract should allow landlord to take advantage of his own wrong - whether tenant abandonned goods or consented to property in goods passing to landlord

BILLS OF EXCHANGE AND OTHER NEGOTIABLE INSTRUMENTS - dishonoured cheques - where cheque cashed on behalf of another party and cheque not met on presentation - whether sufficient evidence Legislation Cited: Conveyancing Act 1919 (NSW) Uncollected Goods Act 1995 (NSW) Cases Cited: Copping v Commercial Flour and Oatmeal Milling Co Ltd (1933) 49 CLR 332 Cumming v Bedborough (1846) 15 M & W 438; 153 ER 921 De Nicholls v Saunders (1870) LR5CP 589 Doe dem Nicholl v M'Kaeg (1830) 10 B & C 721; 109 ER 618 DW & JA Edwards Pty Ltd v Shih (1995) 7 BPR 14,405 Elite Promotions & Management Pty ltd v 5A Investments Pty Ltd (2011) 80 NSWLR 686 Federal Commissioner of Taxation v Steeves Agnew & Co (Vic) Pty Ltd (1951) 82 CLR 408 Fitzgerald v Kellion Estates Pty Ltd (1977) 2 BPR 9,181 Ford v Centenary Investments Pty Ltd [1957] VR 288 Lamb v Brewster (1879) 4 QBD 220 McDonald v Moyes (1951) 69 WN (NSW) 123 Palermo Seafoods Pty Ltd v Lunapas Pty Ltd [2014] NSWSC 792 Port of Melbourne Authority v Anshun Pty Ltd (1981) 147 CLR 589 Reid v Hipkiss (2001) 10 BPR 19,305 Spurgin v White (1860) 7 Jur (NSW) 15; (1860) 2 Giff 473; 66 ER 198 Stubbs v Parsons (1820) 3 B & A 516; 106 ER 750 TCN Channel 9 Pty Ltd v Hayden Enterprises Pty Ltd (1989) 16 NSWLR 130 Woodall v Clifton [1905] 2 Ch 257 Young v Queensland Trustees Ltd (1956) 99 CLR 560 Texts Cited: Edgar Foa, The General Law of Landlord and Tenant (Hamish Hamilton (Law books) Ltd, 7th ed, 1947) Lord Goff and Gareth Jones, Goff & Jones: The Law of Restitution (Sweet & Maxwell, 6th ed, 2002) Lord Justice Lewison and David Hughes, The Interpretation of Contracts in Australia (Thomson Reuters, 2011) Charles Mitchell, Paul Mitchell and Stephen Watterson, Goff & Jones: The Law of Unjust Enrichment (Sweet & Maxwell, 8th ed, 2011) G. N. Huskinson, Woodfall's Law of Landlord and Tenant (Law Book Co, 28th ed, 1978) Sir T Willes Chitty, A T Denning and C P Harvey, Smith's Leading Cases (Sweet & Maxwell, 13th ed, 1929) vol 1 Category: Costs Parties: Palermo Seafoods Pty Ltd (plaintiff) Lunapas Pty Ltd (defendant) Representation: Ms L A Walsh (plaintiff) Mr M L Wright (defendant) Sambrook Grant (plaintiff) Ardor Legal (defendant) File Number(s): 2013/206954 Publication restriction: None