Le v Brown; Nguyen v Brown; Tran v Brown; Monica v Brown; Huggett v Brown [2017] NSWSC 632

Supreme Court New South Wales

Medium Neutral Citation: Le v Brown; Nguyen v Brown; Tran v Brown; Monica v Brown; Huggett v Brown [2017] NSWSC 632 Hearing dates: 8 May 2017 Date of orders: 08 May 2017 Decision date: 08 May 2017 Jurisdiction: Common Law Before: Garling J Decision: Grant leave nunc pro tunc to Futurewood Pty Ltd to file the Amended Statement of Cross Claim in the form in which it was filed on 23 February 2017 and for the matter to proceed on the basis of that pleading, amended as it was on 8 May 2017 Catchwords: PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE – leave to file Amended Statement of Cross-Claim – introduction of new issue at a late stage – no actual prejudice shown – interests of justice require amendment to be permitted Legislation Cited: Uniform Civil Procedure Rules r 14.28 Civil Procedure Act 2005 (NSW) Cases Cited: Le v Brown [2017] NSWSC 162 Texts Cited: Not applicable Category: Procedural and other rulings Parties: Thi Le Le (P) (14/271370) Cindy Xuan Vy Nguyen (P) (14/347492) Van Diep Tran (P) (14/358521) Rachal Monica (P) (15/172536 Stephen Huggett (P) (15/263637) Edwin Christopher Brown (Defendant – all matters) Futurewood Pty Ltd (Defendant) Zurich Australian Insurance Ltd (Defendant) QBE Insurance (Australia) Limited (Cross Defendant) Representation: Counsel: B Hull (Futurewood Pty Ltd) R O'Keefe (Brown and Zurich Australian Insurance Ltd) M McCulloch SC / R Perla (QBE Insurance (Australia) Limited)