NSW Caselaw
Supreme Court New South Wales
Medium Neutral Citation: Lainson Holdings Pty Ltd v Duffy Kennedy Pty Ltd [2019] NSWSC 576 Hearing dates: 1 May 2019 Date of orders: 17 May 2019 Decision date: 17 May 2019 Jurisdiction: Common Law Before: Hammerschlag J Decision: Summons dismissed
Judgment for the Cross Claimant for the amount determined by the Expert, adjusted for the effluxion of time since the Determination, or as otherwise required, and $82,796.25 Catchwords: ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION – EXPERT DETERMINATION – CONTRACT – construction of expert determination provision requiring an expert to make a determination 'according to law' – whether expert required to make a determination free of legal error affecting the result – whether expert determination susceptible to review for alleged legal error on its face; HELD: 'according to law' did not require the determination to be free of legal error to be binding – expert determination not susceptible to review for legal error on its face – expert determination binding Legislation Cited: Commercial Arbitration Act 2010 (NSW) Cases Cited: AGL Victoria Pty Ltd v SPI Networks (Gas) Pty Ltd [2006] VSCA 173 Australian Vintage Ltd v Belvino Investments No 2 Pty Ltd (2015) 90 NSWLR 367 Codelfa Construction Pty Ltd v State Rail Authority (NSW) (1982) 149 CLR 337 Gold Coast City Council v Canterbury Pipelines (Aust) Pty Ltd (1968) 118 CLR 58 Henry v Uralla Municipal Council (1934) 35 SR (NSW) 15 Holt v Cox (1997) 23 ACSR 590 International Air Transport Association v Ansett Australia Holdings Ltd (2008) 234 CLR 151 Electricity Generation Corporation v Woodside Energy Ltd (2014) 251 CLR 640 Kent v Elstob (1802) 3 East 18 Legal & General Life of Australia Ltd v A Hudson Pty Ltd (1985) 1 NSWLR 314 Mount Bruce Mining Pty Ltd v Wright Prospecting Pty Ltd (2015) 256 CLR 104 Plaintiff S297/2013 Minister for Immigration and Border Protection (2015) 255 CLR 231 R v Northumberland Compensation Appeal Tribunal, ex p Shaw [1952] 1 All ER 122 Wilkie v Gordian Runoff Ltd (2005) 221 CLR 522 Category: Principal judgment Parties: Lainson Holdings Pty Ltd – Plaintiff / Cross Defendant
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