Goldberg v Beckett [2016] NSWSC 1646

Supreme Court New South Wales

Medium Neutral Citation: Goldberg v Beckett [2016] NSWSC 1646 Hearing dates: 31 October 2016 Date of orders: 23 November 2016 Decision date: 23 November 2016 Jurisdiction: Common Law Before: Harrison J Decision: Direct the parties within seven days to bring in short minutes of order to reflect my conclusions. Catchwords: FUNDS IN COURT – solicitor's lien – application for payment out – whether interest rate on funds in court unfairly disadvantageous to defendant – whether court should quantify nominated heads of costs claimed by the solicitors – whether costs assessor better placed to do so – where an order made for payment out of funds in court into controlled monies account pending completion of costs assessment procedure Legislation Cited: Legal Profession Uniform Law 2014 (NSW) Cases Cited: Beckett v State of New South Wales [2015] NSWSC 1017 Beckett v State of New South Wales [2015] NSWSC 1500 Goldberg v Beckett [2015] NSWSC 1966 Category: Procedural and other rulings Parties: Terence Louis Goldberg, Armando Gardiman and Thady Blundell t/as Turner Freeman (Plaintiffs) Roseanne Beckett (First Defendant/Cross-Claimant) The State of New South Wales (Second Defendant) Representation: Counsel: K Rees SC with J McDonald (Plaintiffs) T Parker SC with A Bailey (First Defendant)

Solicitors: Turner Freeman (Plaintiffs) DGT Costs Lawyers (First Defendant) File Number(s): 2015/354540 Publication restriction: Nil