Kelly v Scenic Tours Pty Limited [2019] NSWSC 1266

Supreme Court New South Wales

Medium Neutral Citation: Kelly v Scenic Tours Pty Limited [2019] NSWSC 1266 Hearing dates: 2 August 2019 Date of orders: 24 September 2019 Decision date: 24 September 2019 Jurisdiction: Common Law Before: Harrison AsJ Decision: The Court orders that:

(1) At this stage the defendant is to give the plaintiffs' solicitor preliminary discovery of the documents in categories 3, 4, 6 and 9 of the schedule in respect of the 14 disrupted cruises set out in the affidavit of Mr Graham at [91], the 18 "probably" disrupted cruises set out at [463] and the 15 "possibly" disrupted cruises set out at [464], by 25 November 2019.

(2) Costs are reserved.

(3) A stay of order (1) is granted until 5.00 pm on 8 October 2019. Catchwords: PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE — Discovery — Preliminary discovery — Representative proceedings — Where a litigation funder requires further information to determine whether to fund representative proceedings Legislation Cited: Australian Consumer Law, s 61 Civil Procedure Act 2005 (NSW) s 157 Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 2005 (NSW), r 5.3(1) Cases Cited: Brewster v BMW Australia Pty Ltd (2019) 366 ALR 171; [2019] NSWCA 35 Harold and Aileen Childs v Scenic Tours Pty Ltd [2014] NSWCATCD 128 Hatfield v TCN Channel 9 Pty Ltd (2010) 77 NSWLR 506; [2010] NSWCA 69 McFarlane as Trustee for the S McFarlane Superannuation Fund v IOOF Holdings Ltd [2018] FCA 692 Moore v Scenic Tours Pty Limited (No 2) [2017] NSWSC 733 Moore v Scenic Tours Pty Ltd [2015] NSWSC 1777 O'Connor v O'Connor [2018] NSWCA 214 Perera v GetSwift Ltd [2018] FCAFC 202 Scenic Tours Pty Ltd v Moore [2018] NSWCA 238 St George Bank Ltd v Rabo Australia Ltd [2004] FCA 1360 Steffen v ANZ Banking Group [2009] NSWSC 666 Wigmans v AMP Ltd [2019] NSWSC 603 Wileypark Pty Ltd v AMP Limited [2018] FCAFC 143 Texts Cited: Integrity, Fairness and Efficiency – An Inquiry into Class Action Proceedings and Third-Party Litigation Funders (Final Report, ALRC Rep 134, December 2018) Category: Procedural and other rulings Parties: Darran Kelly (First Plaintiff) Gavin Lawrence (Second Plaintiff) Scenic Tours Pty Limited (Defendant) Representation: Counsel: J Hogan-Doran with N Li (Plaintiffs) D S Weinberger with K Hooper (Defendant)