First Property Holdings Pte Ltd v Nyunt [2019] NSWSC 249

Supreme Court New South Wales

Medium Neutral Citation: First Property Holdings Pte Ltd v Nyunt [2019] NSWSC 249 Hearing dates: 3, 4, 5, 12 October 2017, 23, 30 April 2018 Decision date: 13 March 2019 Jurisdiction: Common Law Before: McCallum J Decision: Defendant's motion dismissed with costs Catchwords: JUDGMENTS AND ORDERS – foreign judgments registered as a judgment of the Court under the Foreign Judgments Act – application by the defendant/judgment debtor to have registration order set aside on multiple grounds – whether the defendant had agreed to submit to the jurisdiction of the courts of Singapore – whether the defendant received notice of the proceedings in Singapore in sufficient time to enable him to defend those proceedings – whether the foreign judgments were obtained by fraud – whether the proceedings in Singapore were an abuse of process – consideration of public policy ground for setting aside registration of a foreign judgment Legislation Cited: Burma Companies Act 1914 (Myanmar), ss 282, 282A Foreign Judgments Act 1991 (Cth), ss 6(4), 7, 7(2), 7(3)(a)(iii), 7(4) Penal Code 1861 (Myanmar), s 114 Specific Relief Act 1877 (Myanmar), s 9 Transfer of Property Act 1882 (Myanmar), s 53 Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 2005 (NSW), r 53.5(1) Cases Cited: Bank Polska Kasa Opieki Spolka Akcyjna v Opara [2010] QSC 93; 238 FLR 309 Barclays Bank Ltd v Piacun [1984] 2 Qd R 476 Batistatos v Roads and Traffic Authority of New South Wales (2006) 226 CLR 256; [2006] HCA 27 Benefit Strategies Group Inc v Prider (2005) 91 SASR 544; [2005] SASC 194 Brockley Cabinet Co Ltd v Pears (1972) 20 FLR 333 Global Partners Fund Ltd v Babcock and Brown Ltd [2010] NSWCA 196; 79 ASCR 383 in Abouloff v Oppenheimer (1882) 10 QBD Keele v Findley (1990) 21 NSWLR 444 Kok v Resorts World at Sentosa Pte Ltd [2017] WASCA 150 Moore v Inglis (1976) 9 ALR 509 Quarter Enterprises Pty Ltd v Allardyce Lumber Company Ltd (2014) 85 NSWLR 404; [2014] NSWCA 3 Spalla v St George Motor Finance Ltd (No 6) [2004] FCA 1699 Telesto Investments Ltd v UBS AG [2013] NSWSC 503; 94 ACSR 29 Thirteenth Corp Pty Ltd v State (2006) 232 ALR 491; [2006] FCA 979 Tyne (Trustee) v UBS AG (No 2) [2017] FCAFC 5; 341 ALR 415 Yoon v Song [2000] NSWSC 1147; 158 FLR 295 Texts Cited: Hansard, 29 May 1991, p 4218 Martin Davies, Andrew Bell and Paul Le Gay Brereton, Nygh's Conflict of Laws in Australia (9th ed, 2014, LexisNexis Butterworths) Category: Principal judgment Parties: First Property Holdings Pte Ltd (plaintiff) Michael Nyunt (defendant) Representation: Counsel: C Colquhoun with T Boyle (plaintiff) D DeBuse (defendant)