Gandangara Local Aboriginal Land Council & Anor v Gandangara Services Limited & Ors [2015] NSWSC 2011

Supreme Court New South Wales

Medium Neutral Citation: Gandangara Local Aboriginal Land Council & Anor v Gandangara Services Limited & Ors [2015] NSWSC 2011 Hearing dates: 11 December 2015 Decision date: 11 December 2015 Jurisdiction: Equity - Corporations List Before: Black J Decision: Orders in accordance with the short minutes of order initialled by His Honour and placed in the file. Catchwords: CORPORATIONS - receivers, controllers and managers - termination of receivership – where receiver and manager of companies sought to be discharged from that role – where receiver and manager of companies sought dispensation from requirement to file accounts – where object of the receiver's appointment has been implemented. Legislation Cited: - Aboriginal Land Rights Act 1983 (Cth), s 222 - Corporations Act 2001 (Cth), s 601AA Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 2005 (NSW), rr 26.5, 26.6. Cases Cited: - Ide v Ide [2004] NSWSC 751; (2004) 50 ACSR 324 - Kerr; Re Angel's Castle Preschool Pty Limited (in liq) (No 2) [2012] FCA 57 - Lunn v Savage [2006] NSWSC 240 - Refund Property Fees Pty Limited v Prime Project Development (Cairns) Pty Limited [2015] FCA 613 Category: Procedural and other rulings Parties: Gandangara Local Aboriginal Land Council (First Plaintiff) GLALC Development Services Limited (Second Plaintiff) Gandangara Management Services Limited (Nominal Third Plaintiff) Gandangara Services Limited (First Defendant) Gandangara Health Limited (Second Defendant) Cinderella Cronan (Third Defendant) George Bloomfield (Fourth Defendant) Carolyne Joy Brown (Fifth Defendant) John Thomas Dickson (Sixth Defendant) Mervyn Gregory Donovan (Seventh Defendant) Denis Thorne (Eighth Defendant) Rohan Tobler (Ninth Defendant) Mark (Jack) Johnson (Tenth Defendant) Gandangara 101 Limited (Eleventh Defendant) Gandangara Employment & Training Limited (Twelfth Defendant) Gandangara Future Fund Limited (Thirteenth Defendant) Gandangara Health Services Limited (Fourteenth Defendant) Gandangara Housing Services Limited (Fifteenth Defendant) Gandangara Transport Services Limited (Sixteenth Defendant) Lot 3 (South) Barden Ridge Limited (Seventeenth Defendant) Marumali Limited (Eighteenth Defendant) Sproule Road Limited (Nineteenth Defendant) Statewise Aboriginal Services Limited (Twentieth Defendant) Sydney Aboriginal Services Limited (Twenty-First Defendant) Representation: Counsel: J Baird (Receiver)