Live Group Pty Ltd & Anor v Rabbi Ulman and Ors [2018] NSWSC 393

Supreme Court New South Wales

Medium Neutral Citation: Live Group Pty Ltd & Anor v Rabbi Ulman and Ors [2018] NSWSC 393 Hearing dates: 19 March 2018 Decision date: 29 March 2018 Jurisdiction: Equity - Expedition List Before: Sackar J Decision: See paras [172] and [175] Catchwords: CONTEMPT – contempt of court – improper pressure – interference with the administration of justice as a continuing process – appropriate penalty for contempt

COSTS – costs to be awarded on an indemnity or ordinary basis Legislation Cited: Crimes (Sentencing and Procedure) Act 1999 (NSW) Supreme Court Rules 1970 (NSW) Uniform Civil Procedure Act 2002 (NSW) Cases Cited: Admark Property Group Pty Ltd (in liq) v GJ Building and Contracting Pty Ltd [2017] NSWSC 118 Attorney-General (NSW) v John Fairfax & Sons Ltd [1980] 1 NSWLR 362 Attorney-General (NSW) v Whiley (1993) 31 NSWLR 314 Attorney-General v Butterworth [1963] 1 Q B 696 Attorney-General v Leveller Magazine Ltd [1979] AC 440 Attorney-General v Newspaper Publishing Plc [1988] Ch 333 Australasian Meat Industry Employees Union v Mudginberri Station Pty Ltd (1986) 161 CLR 98 Australian Competition and Consumer Commission v Leahy Petroleum Pty Ltd (No 2) [2005] FCA 254 Australian Consolidated Press Ltd v Morgan (1965) 112 CLR 483 Australian Securities and Investments Commission v Matthews [2009] NSWSC 285 Clipsal Australia Pty Ltd v CAN 134 468 205 (formerly Clipso Electrical Pty Ltd) (No 5) [2017] FCA 1584 Commercial Bank of Australia v Preston [1981] 2 NSWLR 554 Commission for Fair Trading v Rixon (No 3) [2014] NSWSC 1279 Commonwealth of Australia v Gretton [2008] NSWCA 117 Connolly v Dale [1996] QB 120 Coward v Stapleton (1953) 90 CLR 573 Crane Distribution Ltd v Van Schellebeeck [2009] NSWSC 263 Gunns Ltd v Alisah [2009] TASSC 103 Hadchiti v R [2016] NSWCCA 63 Hills v Ellis [1983] QB 680 Hinch v Attorney-General for the State of Victoria (No 2) (1987) 164 CLR 15 In re Johnson (1887) 20 QBD 68, 74 Kazal v Thunder Studios Inc (California) [2017] FCAFC 111 Live Group Pty Ltd and Anor v Rabbi Ulman and Ors [2017] NSWSC 1759 Matthews v Australian Securities and Investments Commission [2009] NSWCA 155 McCabe v British American Tobacco [2002] VSC 73 McIntyre v Perkes (1988) 15 NSWLR 417 Menzies v Paccar Financial Pty Ltd [2016] NSWCA 280 Mirus Australia Pty Ltd v Gage [2017] NSWSC 1046 Mirus Australia Pty Ltd v Gage [2018] NSWSC 35 Morris v Crown Office [1970] 2 QB 114 NCR Australia Pty Ltd v Credit Connection Pty Ltd [2005] NSWSC 1118 NW Frozen Foods Pty Ltd v Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (1996) 71 FCR 285 Paccar Financial Pty Limited v Ian Menzies & Colleen Menzies (No 2) [2015] NSWSC 1622 Pang v Bydand Holdings Pty Ltd [2011] NSWCA 69 Principal Registrar of Supreme Court (NSW) v Tran [2006] NSWSC 1183 R v Kellett [1976] Q B 372 R v Moloney [1985] AC 905 R v Ruttley (No 7) [2017] NSWC 1582 R v Thompson; R v Houlton (2000) 49 NSWLR 383 Re Coroner's Court of Western Australia; Ex Parte Porteous [2002] WASCA 144 Registrar of the Court of Appeal v Maniam (No 2) (1992) 26 NSWLR 309 Riggio v R [2015] NSWCCA 223 Roff v R [2017] NSWCCA 208 Scholefield Goodman (Australia) Pty Limited v Rutkowski [2018] NSWSC 19 Siganto v The Queen (1998) 194 CLR 656 The Prothonotary v Collins (1985) 2 NSWLR 549 Veen v R (No 2) (1988) 164 CLR 465 Witham v Holloway (1995) 183 CLR 525 Wood v Galea (1996) 84 A Crim R 274 Texts Cited: C J Miller, Contempt of Court (Oxford University Press, 3rd ed, 2000) Ian Cram et al (eds), Borrie & Lowe: The Law of Contempt (LexisNexis, 4th ed, 2010) Category: Procedural and other rulings Parties: Live Group Pty Ltd ACN 145320403 (First Plaintiff) Reuven Barukh (Second Plaintiff)