Lukaszewicz v Polish Club Limited [2019] NSWSC 860

Supreme Court New South Wales

Medium Neutral Citation: Lukaszewicz v Polish Club Limited [2019] NSWSC 860 Hearing dates: 13 June 2019 Decision date: 10 July 2019 Jurisdiction: Equity - Corporations List Before: Black J Decision: Costs orders made. Catchwords: COSTS – costs order on a percentage basis – where plaintiffs have had limited success against one defendant – where plaintiffs have had no success against other defendants.

COSTS – application for costs on an indemnity basis – where plaintiffs did not act unreasonably in not accepting Calderbank offers – whether an indemnity costs order should be made. Legislation Cited: - Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 2005 (NSW) r 42.1 Cases Cited: - Bostik Australia Pty Ltd v Liddiard (No 2) [2009] NSWCA 304 - Calderbank v Calderbank [1975] 3 All ER 333 - Cellarit Pty Ltd v Cawarrah Holdings Pty Ltd (No 2) [2018] NSWCA 266 - Commonwealth of Australia v Gretton [2008] NSWCA 117 - Correa v Whittingham (No 2) [2013] NSWCA 471 Heath v Greenacre Business Park Pty Ltd [2016] NSWCA 34 - Lukaszewicz v Polish Club Limited [2019] NSWSC 446 - Lukaszewicz v Polish Club Limited [2019] NSWSC 595 - Lukaszewicz v Polish Club Limited [2019] NSWSC 669 - Mobis Parts Australia Pty Ltd v XL Insurance Company SE (No 2) [2019] NSWCA 19 - Nu Line Construction Group Pty Ltd v Fowler (aka Grippaudo) [2012] NSWSC 816 - Oshlack v Richmond River Council [1998] HCA 11; (1998) 193 CLR 72 - Re Employ (No 96) Pty Ltd (in liq) [2013] NSWSC 456 - Re Metal Storm Ltd (subject to deed of company arrangement) [2014] NSWSC 1170 - Re MF Global Australia Ltd (in liq); Hopper v Campbell in his capacity as liquidator of MF Global Australia Ltd (in liq) [2015] NSWSC 1583 - Ryde Developments Pty Ltd v The Property Investors Alliance Pty Ltd (No 2) [2018] NSWCA 40 - Treloar Constructions Pty Ltd v McMillan (No 2) [2017] NSWCA 146 Category: Costs Parties: Kazimiera Lukaszewicz (First Plaintiff) Mick Wykrota (Second Plaintiff) Waclaw Jagoszewski (Third Plaintiff) Dariusz Plust (Fourth Plaintiff) Polish Club Limited (First Defendant) Ryszard Borysiewicz (Second Defendant) Hania Geras (Third Defendant) Robert Czernkowski (Fourth Defendant) Mateusz Konopka (Fifth Defendant) Eleonora Olivia Danuta Paton (Sixth Defendant) Representation: Counsel: M Castle (Plaintiffs) M T McCulloch SC/R W Notley (Defendants)