Plaintiff A v Bird ; Plaintiff C v Bird [2015] NSWSC 570

Supreme Court New South Wales

Medium Neutral Citation: Plaintiff A v Bird ; Plaintiff C v Bird [2015] NSWSC 570 Hearing dates: 21 April 2015 Date of orders: 21 April 2015 Decision date: 21 April 2015 Jurisdiction: Common Law Before: McCallum J Decision: Application to transfer the proceedings to this Court from the District Court allowed. Application seeking prohibition of identity of certain persons in the proceedings allowed. Catchwords: PROCEDURE – civil – jurisdiction – transfer of proceedings from District Court to Supreme Court – where real chance of award of damages exceeding jurisdictional limit of District Court.

PROCEDURE – civil – interlocutory issues – suppression orders – where order sought suppressing identify of plaintiffs and another child in the proceedings Legislation Cited: Children (Criminal Proceedings) Act 1987 (NSW), s 15A Civil Procedure Act 2005 (NSW), s 140 Cases Cited: Cubrilo v Veljovic [2015] NSWSC 367 D1 v P1 [2012] NSWCA 314 Category: Procedural and other rulings Parties: 2015/102175 Plaintiff A (First Plaintiff) Plaintiff B (Second Plaintiff) Rodney Raymond Bird (First Defendant) Representation: Counsel: E Romaniuk SC, M Kuma (Plaintiffs) D Toomey (First Defendant) N Smith (Second and Third Defendants)

Solicitors: Shine Lawyers (Plaintiffs) File Number(s): 2015/1021752015/102195 Publication restriction: The names of all three plaintiffs in both proceedings and the child in the second proceedings are supressed.