H M and O Investments Pty Limited v Ingram (No.2)

H M and O Investments Pty Limited sought to appeal against a decision of the Supreme Court of New South Wales, which was in turn being appealed by Ingram. The appeal was made in the High Court of Australia, which was asked to decide whether the Supreme Court's decision was correct. The dispute centred around whether the Supreme Court should have allowed the reference of a question of law to the High Court during the course of the hearing in the Supreme Court, or whether it should have waited until the conclusion of the hearing to determine the matter.

The legal issues before the court were whether the Supreme Court was correct to allow the reference of the question of law to the High Court during the hearing, and whether it was appropriate to do so when there was no question of principle involved. The court was asked to consider whether the reference was appropriate in the circumstances, and whether it was an abuse of the process of the court.

The High Court found that the Supreme Court was correct to allow the reference of the question of law to the High Court during the course of the hearing. The court held that it was not an abuse of the process of the court to do so, even when there was no question of principle involved. The court found that it was appropriate to refer the question of law to the High Court in the circumstances, and that it was in the interests of justice to do so.

The appeal was dismissed, and the orders of the Supreme Court were upheld. The court found that the Supreme Court had not erred in law in allowing the reference of the question of law to the High Court, and that it had acted within its jurisdiction in doing so. The orders of the Supreme Court were affirmed, and the appeal was dismissed.