Rodriguez & Sons Pty Ltd v Queensland Bulk Water Supply Authority trading as Seqwater (No 19) [2019] NSWSC 262

Supreme Court New South Wales

Medium Neutral Citation: Rodriguez & Sons Pty Ltd v Queensland Bulk Water Supply Authority trading as Seqwater (No 19) [2019] NSWSC 262 Hearing dates: 11 March 2019 Date of orders: 11 March 2019 Decision date: 14 March 2019 Jurisdiction: Common Law Before: Beech-Jones J Decision: (1) Tender of report of Dr Luke Toombes dated 15 February 2019 rejected. (2) Tender of report of Dr Sharmil Markar dated 21 February 2019 rejected; (3) Costs of the application to tender the reports be reserved. Catchwords: CIVIL PROCEDURE – Re-opening – tender of further experts reports in response to leave granted to plaintiff to re-open – whether basis for allowing re-opening allows other parties to revisit decisions not to file evidence in response to plaintiff's expert – tender disallowed. Cases Cited: Rodriguez & Sons Pty Ltd v Queensland Bulk Water Supply Authority t/as Seqwater (No 18) [2018] NSWSC 1828 Category: Procedural and other rulings Parties: Rodriguez & Sons Pty Limited (Plaintiff) Queensland Bulk Water Supply Authority t/as Seqwater (First Defendant) SunWater Limited (Second Defendant) State of Queensland (Third Defendant) Representation: Counsel: J Sexton SC; N Owens SC; R Yezerski; J Taylor (Plaintiff) B O'Donnell QC; A Pomerenke QC; D Piggott; D Klineberg (First Defendant) D Williams SC; HJA Neal; N Simpson (Second Defendant) GA Thompson QC; JM Horton QC; E Morzone (Third Defendant)