Category: Practice & Procedure
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Reopening of entered orders
[54] Rule 36.16(3A) was introduced following the change to the procedure for the entering of orders whereby orders will be entered by the court itself on its computerised record. The rule provides a limited opportunity to ameliorate the principle that subject to only limited qualifications an order that finally disposes of proceedings, once entered, cannot…
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Offers of compromise with terms not reflected in final orders
[32] The Offer of Compromise however had some 10 additional terms, examples of which are as follows: “2. The defendant’s motor vehicle third party insurer is authorised to deduct and/or pay from the judgment sum in paragraph 1 the amount of any advance payments or interim payments made for or on behalf of the plaintiff.…
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The meaning and effect of granting liberty to apply
[20] Nor do I consider that, as the applicant argued, the effect of the grant of liberty to apply was to obviate the need for the applicant to file a notice of motion in accordance with r 36.16. Rather, it contemplated the possibility of an application for variation being made in accordance with the UCPR,…
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Declaration: width
XL Insurance Co SE v BNY Trust Company of Australia Limited [2019] NSWCA 215 114 Courts will usually not make a declaration as to the liability of an insurer to indemnify an insured in circumstances where the liability of the insured to a claimant has not yet been established by judgment: AMP Financial Planning Pty Ltd…
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Leave to appeal
[28] In PPK Willoughby Pty Ltd v Baird [2019] NSWCA 48, this Court made reference to the proper approach of an intermediate appellate court to applications for leave to appeal from interlocutory decisions involving the exercise of discretion on questions of practice and procedure. The Court observed (at [5]) that discretionary decisions “engage the strictures against over-ready appellate…
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Summary dismissal and multiple defendants
[6] The primary judge would have been justified in simply refusing to deal with the late application. Although it does not appear that the primary judge was referred to the relevant authorities, it is clearly established by decisions of this Court that if several defendants are sued and the evidence that might be adduced in…
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Preliminary discovery
APPEALS – civil procedure – preliminary discovery – Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 2005 (NSW), r 5.3(1) – where application dismissed for failure to satisfy the Court of entitlement to make a claim for relief – whether dismissal involved a determination of the merits of the claim at an interlocutory stage CIVIL PROCEDURE – preliminary discovery…
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Police powers and duties: incoherence and incompatibility; Summary dismissal
CIVIL PROCEDURE – summary disposal – dismissal of proceedings – primary judge summarily dismissed proceedings on basis that defendant did not owe plaintiffs a duty of care – where weight of current authority against existence of duty of care – where argument available that common law should be extended to recognise duty of care –…
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Appealing against the exercise of a judicial discretion
Elzahed v State of New South Wales [2018] NSWCA 103 When a court is invited to make a discretionary decision, to which many factors may be relevant, it is incumbent on the party who contends on appeal that attention was not given to particular matters to demonstrate that the primary judge’s attention was drawn to…