Galati v Deans (No 2) [2018] NSWSC 1813

Supreme Court New South Wales

Medium Neutral Citation: Galati v Deans (No 2) [2018] NSWSC 1813 Hearing dates: 29 October 2018 Date of orders: 28 November 2018 Decision date: 28 November 2018 Jurisdiction: Equity Before: Ward CJ in Eq Decision: 1. Dismiss the plaintiffs' application for leave to file the proposed amended statement of claim annexed to the notice of motion dated 28 June 2018. 2. Direct the plaintiffs to serve any further proposed amended statement of claim limited to causes of action against the existing first to third defendants and not including the claims for relief at prayers 4D or 4F (or 4C to the extent that this would affect the rights or interests of the proposed additional defendants) by no later than 12 December 2018 and, if there is objection by the existing defendants to leave being granted for the filing of that amended pleading, the existing defendants file and serve brief written submissions on or before 16 January 2019 and the plaintiffs file and serve any submissions in reply by 23 January 2019 with a view to the issue being determined on the papers. 3. The plaintiffs to pay the costs of the first to third defendants and of the proposed fifth to eighteenth defendants of the application for leave to amend. 4. Liberty to the parties to apply on 3 business days' notice. 5. Stand the matter, including the plaintiffs' extant notice of motion for injunctive relief, over for directions before me at 9.30am on 1 February 2019 Catchwords: CIVIL PROCEDURE – pleadings – amendment – leave to amend refused – opportunity granted for plaintiffs to serve proposed further amended pleading in relation to one category of amendments – finding that to permit second category of amendments would give rise to abuse of process Legislation Cited: Broadcasting Act 1942 (Cth) Civil Procedure Act 2005 (NSW), ss 56, 57, 58, 64 Civil Procedure Act 2010 (Vic), s 63(1) Companies (NSW) Code 1981 (NSW), s 68A Corporations Act 2001 (Cth), ss 127(1), 128, 129, 188(1), 205B(5), 236(3), 237 Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 2005 (NSW), rr 6.24, 14.28(1)(c), 36.15, 36.16 Cases Cited: Abela v Giew (1964) 81 WN (Pt 1) (NSW) 344 ACN 074 971 109 v The National Mutual Life Association of Australasia Ltd [2010] VSC 186 Allstate Life Insurance Co v Australia & New Zealand Banking Group Ltd (1995) 58 FCR 26 Aon Risk Services Australia Ltd v Australian National University (2009) 239 CLR 175; [2009] HCA 27 Bishopsgate Insurance Australia Ltd (in liq) v Deloitte Haskins & Sells [1999] 3 VR 863 Brisbane South Regional Health Authority v Taylor (1996) 186 CLR 541; [1996] HCA 25 Burrell v The Queen (2008) 238 CLR 218; [2008] HCA 34 CA & CA Ballan Pty Ltd v Oliver Hume (Australia) Pty Ltd [2017] VSCA 11 Caason Investments Pty Ltd v Cao (2015) 236 FCR 322; [2015] FCAFC 94 Canberra Residential Developments Pty Ltd v Brendas (2010) 273 ALR 601; [2010] FCAFC 125 Clough and Rogers v Frog (1974) 4 ALR 615; 48 ALJR 481 Collier v Country Women's Association of New South Wales [2017] NSWCA 22 Commissioner for Railways v Bielewicz (1962) 63 SR (NSW) 466 Commonwealth v McLean (1996) 41 NSWLR 389 Dey v Victorian Railways Commissioners (1949) 78 CLR 62; [1949] HCA 1 Donellan v Watson (1990) 21 NSWLR 335 Foss v Harbottle (1843) 2 Hare 461; 67 ER 189 Galati v Deans [2018] NSWSC 1600 General Steel Industries Inc v Commissioner for Railways (NSW) (1964) 112 CLR 125; [1964] HCA 69 Hans Pet Constructions Pty Limited v Cassar [2009] NSWCA 230 Harvey v Phillips (1956) 95 CLR 235; [1956] HCA 27 Hastie Group Ltd (in liq) v Bourne [2017] NSWSC 709 Horton v Jones (No 2) (1939) 39 SR (NSW) 305 In the Matter of ACN 092 745 330 Pty Ltd [2018] NSWSC 1185 In the matter of Felan's Fisheries Pty Limited [2017] NSWSC 1502 John Alexander's Clubs Pty Ltd v White City Tennis Club Ltd (2010) 241 CLR 1; [2010] HCA 19 Johnson v Gore Wood & Co [2002] 2 AC 1 Leotta v Public Transport Commission (NSW) (1976) 9 ALR 437; 50 ALJR 666 Masters v Cameron (1954) 91 CLR 353; [1954] HCA 72 McGuirk v The University of New South Wales [2009] NSWSC 1424 Middleton v O'Neill (1943) 43 SR (NSW) 178 Mitanis v Pioneer Concrete (Vic) Pty Ltd (1997) ATPR 41-591 Northside Developments Pty Ltd v Registrar-General (1990) 170 CLR 146; [1990] HCA 32 Owners Strata Plan No 57164 v Yau (2017) 355 ALR 571; [2017] NSWCA 341 Research in Motion Ltd v Samsung Electronics Australia Pty Ltd (2009) 176 FCR 66; [2009] FCA 320 Royal British Bank v Turquand (1855) 5 El & Bl 248; 119 ER 474 S1 v The Trustees of Marist Brothers [2016] NSWSC 970 Steiner v Strang [2016] NSWSC 9 Tamaya Resources Limited (in liq) v Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu (A Firm) [2015] FCA 1098 Tamaya Resources Ltd (in liq) v Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu (a firm) (2016) 332 ALR 199; [2016] FCAFC 2 TCN Channel 9 Pty Ltd v Antoniadis (1998) 44 NSWLR 682 UBS AG v Tyne [2018] HCA 45 VPlus Holdings Pty Ltd v Bank of Western Australia Pty Ltd (2012) 91 ACSR 545; [2012] NSWSC 1327 Wentworth v Rogers (No 5) (1986) 6 NSWLR 534 Weston v Publishing and Broadcasting Ltd (2012) 88 ACSR 80; [2012] NSWCA 79 Williams Group Australia Pty Ltd v Crocker [2016] NSWCA 265 Wride v Schulze [2004] FCAFC 216 Texts Cited: Austin, R P and Black, A J, Annotations to the Corporations Act, Vol 1 (LexisNexis) Category: Procedural and other rulings Parties: Dominic Gerardo Galati (First Plaintiff) Trading Australia Pty Ltd (Second Plaintiff) Robert Paton Deans (First Defendant) Fishbank Development Corporation Pty Ltd (Second Defendant) TRHS Pty Ltd (Third Defendant) Felan's Fisheries Pty Ltd (Proposed Fourth Defendant) Sebastian Stevens (Proposed Fifth Defendant) Sydney Fish Market Pty Ltd (Proposed Sixth Defendant) SFM Tenants and Merchants Pty Ltd (Proposed Seventh Defendant) Bruce James Standen (Proposed Eighth Defendant) Graham Richard Turk (Proposed Ninth Defendant) John Samuel Symonds (Proposed Tenth Defendant) William John Gallagher (Proposed Eleventh Defendant) Sandra Margaret Hook (Proposed Twelfth Defendant) Terry Con Poulos (Proposed Thirteenth Defendant) Harry Kouros (Proposed Fourteenth Defendant) George Apostolakis (Proposed Fifteenth Defendant) John Jeffreson (Proposed Sixteenth Defendant) Ross Geoffrey Fidden (Proposed Seventeenth Defendant) Gregory George Imisides (Proposed Eighteenth Defendant) Thanh-Chi Pho (Proposed Nineteenth Defendant) Representation: Counsel: P Doyle Gray with A Butt (Plaintiffs) P Barham (First to Third Defendants) A J Bulley (Proposed Fifth Defendant) J C Hewitt (Proposed Sixth Defendant) G E S Ng (Proposed Seventh Defendant) N J Kidd SC (Proposed Eighth to Seventeenth Defendants)