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Batrouney v Forster

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AGLC: Batrouney v Forster [2015] VSC 230
Case: [2015] VSC 230
Decision Date: 27 May 2015

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Batrouney v Forster [2015] VSC 230

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Sheehan v Dockerty [2016] VCC 500

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Hamilton, in the matter of Aquagenics Pty Ltd (in liq) v Tasmanian Water & Sewerage Corporation Pty Ltd [2022] FCA 530
Citation 1 (Para 3)

…y under the Award. This is the position consistent with Simson v Ingham (1823) 2 B & C 65 at 107 [citing also Batrouney v Forster [2015] VSC 230; SNL Group Pty Ltd v CMA Corporation Ltd [2011] NSWSC 464; Commonwealth Bank of Australia v Davies [2003] QSC 470] that: a.Where a debtor owes a creditor multiple debts…
QNI Resources Pty Ltd v Park [2016] QSC 222
Citation 2 (Para 1)

…As Robson J recently observed (in Batrouney v Forster [2015] VSC 230 at [1401]), a useful starting point in relation to the discussion of this remedy is Meagher Gummow & Lehane’s Equity: Doctrines & Remedies [9], where the authors comment: Where a plaintiff seeks a remedy of an account, the plaintiff must general…
Noel Batrouney and Andrew Lyle v David Brian Forster [No 2] [2016] VSCA 131
Citation 3 (Para 1)

…d determining the issues we propose to remit to the Trial Division. [3](2014) 45 VR 119, 151-153 [106]-[111] (‘ Murphy’). [4] Batrouney v Forster [2015] VSC 230. [5] Batrouney v Forster (No 2) [2015] VSC 541.…
Walsh v Legal Practitioners Board [2016] SASCFC 52
Citation 4 (Para 1)

…was under enormous pressure in conducting litigation against the full weight of the State.[19] [18] (1959) 101 CLR 198. [19] Batrouney v Forster [2015] VSC 230 at [1421] – [1422].…
Batrouney v Forster [2016] VSCA 80
Citation 5 (Para 1)

…ransferee of the funds, had thereby become ‘indebted or otherwise liable’ to the client within s 5.5.14(1)(c) of the Act. [1] Batrouney v Forster [2015] VSC 230 (‘Reasons’).…
Kuksal v Victorian Legal Services Board (Further Recusal) [2024] VSC 508
Citation 6 (Para 1)

…rvices Commissioner (NSW) (2005) 224 CLR 322; Attorney-General (SA) v Corporation of the City of Adelaide (2013) 249 CLR 1; Batrouney v Forster [2015] VSC 230; Berger v Council of the Law Society of New South Wales [2013] NSWCA 336; Bolitho v Banksia Securities Ltd (No 18) (remitter) [2021] VSC 666; Cahill v Vict…
Cicvaric v Blazevic [2024] VSC 450
Citation 7 (Para 2)

…147] It is not enough that a party might be owed some money; they are not entitled to a form of general discovery.[148] [146] Batrouney v Forster [2015] VSC 230, [1397] (Robson J). [147]See, for example, Re Sharpe [1992] FCA 616, [5] (Drummond J) and Doss v Doss (1843) 18 ER 464, 472 (Dr Lushington, with Mr Baron…
McCallum v Pitard Consortium [2021] VSC 369
Citation 8 (Para 1)

…(Gummow and Hayne JJ). [21] Sharpe v Goodhew (Drummond J, Unreported, Federal Court of Australia, 11 December 1992); cited in Batrouney v Forster [2015] VSC 230, [1403] (Robson J) and Rowe v National Australia Bank Ltd (2019) 56 WAR 1 (‘ Rowe v NAB ’), 24 [66] (Murphy JA and Sofronoff AJA). [22] Hancock v Rhineha…
Bannon v Nauru Phosphate Royalties Trust (No 3) [2017] VSC 214
Citation 9 (Para 1)

…[31] the cause of action accrues when the work is done, whether solicitor or not. [30] Cockburn v Shehadie [2013] NSWSC 758, [39]; Batrouney v Foster [2015] VSC 230, [219], [226], [228]. [31]G H Newsom and Lionel Abel-Smith, Preston and Newsom on Limitation of Actions (3 rd ed, 1953), 32.…
Frontlink v Feldman [2016] VSC 691
Citation 10

…basis of the plaintiff’s authority to sell cattle and apply outstanding commissions payable to meet outstanding debts – Batrouney v Forster [2015] VSC 230 followed – Creditor entitled to apply proceeds of debt in the manner it sought fit in the absence of instructions to the contrary.…
Batrouney v Forster [2016] VSC 393
Citation 11 (Para 1)

…rsement claims and the fee agreement claims. The initial judgment of the Court of Appeal was delivered on 27 April 2016.[3] [2] Batrouney v Forster [2015] VSC 230. [3] Batrouney v Forster [2016] VSCA 80.…
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Citation 12

…t) Pty Ltd v Anthony Wayne Elkerton (2015) 321 ALR 181 – Payments appropriated to discharge debts of plaintiff’s choice – Batrouney v Forster [2015] VSC 230 considered – Running account – Nature of parties’ commercial relationship – Airservices Australia v Ferrier (1996) 185 CLR 483 applied – Lump sum payments to…
Batrouney v Forster (no 2) [2015] VSC 541
Citation 13 (Para 1)

…ster now seeks orders for costs against the plaintiffs (the receivers) and also against the Legal Services Board (the Board). [1] Batrouney v Forster [2015] VSC 230 (the trial judgment).…
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Citation 14

…[19] [2015] VSC 230.…
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Citation 15

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Citation 16

…R 363; Prestige Property Services Pty Ltd v Madzoski [2008] WASCA 58; Tomlinson v Ramsey Food Processing Pty Ltd [2015] HCA 28; Batrouney v Forster [2015] VSC 230; Dean's Pty Ltd v Laratae & Anor [2015] VSC 341; Wingfoot Australia Partners Pty Ltd v Kocak (2013) 252 CLR 480. Judgment: Court satisfied that the pla…
Sheehan v Dockerty [2016] VCC 500
Citation 17

…ees accrues from when the last work was done ”; d.Justice Robson, in the Supreme Court of Victoria in Batrouney v Forster [2015] VSC 230 (“ Forster ”) considered a submission that, “ when a practitioner performs work for a client at the client’s request, the client becomes liable to the practitioner (and the caus…

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Russo v Russo [2015] NSWSC 17
Citation 1 (Para 1)

…These statements have been cited with apparent approval in several Australian decisions.[183] [183]See Russo v Russo [2015] NSWSC 17; Southern Equity Pty Ltd v Timevale Pty Ltd [2012] NSWSC 15 (in this case, Brereton J held that the relationship of debtor and creditor satisfies the prerequisites to ordering an acc…
Southern Equity Pty Ltd v Timevale Pty Ltd [2012] NSWSC 15
Citation 2 (Para 1)

…cited with apparent approval in several Australian decisions.[183] [183]See Russo v Russo [2015] NSWSC 17; Southern Equity Pty Ltd v Timevale Pty Ltd [2012] NSWSC 15 (in this case, Brereton J held that the relationship of debtor and creditor satisfies the prerequisites to ordering an account that the plaintiff be…
Hons v Hons [2010] NSWSC 247
Citation 3 (Para 1)

…e balance due between them. After the balance is ascertained, orders are made as to the rights of the parties to that balance.[174] [174] Hons v Hons [2010] NSWSC 247, [104]–[110]. This is process is also known as ‘common accounts’ as opposed to wilful default based accounts.…
Barkley v Barkley Brown [2009] NSWSC 76
Citation 4 (Para 1)

…be entitled to moneys from the defendant, and that the defendant be an ‘accounting party’); Hons v Hons [2010] NSWSC 247; Barkley v Barkley Brown [2009] NSWSC 76; Mulherin v Quinn Villages Pty Ltd [2007] QSC 231; Re Sharp [1992] FCA 616; Rockhampton Permanent Building Society v Petersen (1986) 1 Qdr 128; Rapid Met…
Mulherin v Quinn Villages Pty Ltd [2007] QSC 231
Citation 5 (Para 1)

…the defendant be an ‘accounting party’); Hons v Hons [2010] NSWSC 247; Barkley v Barkley Brown [2009] NSWSC 76; Mulherin v Quinn Villages Pty Ltd [2007] QSC 231; Re Sharp [1992] FCA 616; Rockhampton Permanent Building Society v Petersen (1986) 1 Qdr 128; Rapid Metal Developments (Aust) Pty Ltd v Rosato [1971] Qd…
Australian Securities and Investments Commission v GDK Financial Solutions Pty Ltd [2006] FCA 1415
Citation 6

…[175](2006) 236 ALR 699 ( Re GDK ).…
Lee, E.T. v Minister for Immigration, Local Government & Ethnic Affairs [1992] FCA 616
Citation 7 (Para 1)

…unting party’); Hons v Hons [2010] NSWSC 247; Barkley v Barkley Brown [2009] NSWSC 76; Mulherin v Quinn Villages Pty Ltd [2007] QSC 231; Re Sharp [1992] FCA 616; Rockhampton Permanent Building Society v Petersen (1986) 1 Qdr 128; Rapid Metal Developments (Aust) Pty Ltd v Rosato [1971] Qd R 82; Lang v Simon (1952)…
Kuek v Devflan Pty Ltd & Anor [2009] VSC 91
Citation 8 (Para 1)

…d with the relevant authority of Beach J in Kuek v Devflan Pty Ltd .[173] It was Mr Fulton’s experience that the court applies that authority. [173][2009] VSC 91.…

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