Parbery v QNI Metals Pty Ltd

SUPREME COURT OF QUEENSLAND

CITATION:

Parbery & Ors v QNI Metals Pty Ltd & Ors [2018] QSC 125

PARTIES:

STEPHEN JAMES PARBERY AND MICHAEL ANDREW OWEN IN THEIR CAPACITIES AS LIQUIDATORS OF QUEENSLAND NICKEL PTY LTD (IN LIQ)
ACN 009 842 068

(first plaintiffs)

QUEENSLAND NICKEL PTY LTD (IN LIQ)
ACN 009 842 068

(second plaintiff)

JOHN RICHARD PARK, KELLY-ANNE LAVINA TRENFIELD & QUENTIN JAMES OLDE AS LIQUIDATORS OF QUEENSLAND NICKEL PTY LTD (IN LIQUIDATION)
ACN 009 842 068

(third plaintiffs)

v  

QNI METALS PTY LTD

ACN 066 656 175

(first defendant)

QNI RESOURCES PTY LTD

ACN 054 117 921

(second defendant)

QUEENSLAND NICKEL SALES PTY LTD
ACN 009 872 566

(third defendant)

CLIVE FREDERICK PALMER

(fourth defendant)

CLIVE THEODORE MENSINK

(fifth defendant)

IAN MAURICE FERGUSON

(sixth defendant)

MINERALOGY PTY LTD
ACN 010 582 680

(seventh defendant)

PALMER LEISURE AUSTRALIA PTY LTD
ACN 152 386 617

(eighth defendant)

PALMER LEISURE COOLUM PTY LTD
ACN 146 828 122

(ninth defendant)

FAIRWAY COAL PTY LTD
ACN 127 220 642

(tenth defendant)

CART PROVIDER PTY LTD
ACN 119 455 837

(eleventh defendant)

COEUR DE LION INVESTMENTS PTY LTD
ACN 006 334 872

(twelfth defendant)

COEUR DE LION HOLDINGS PTY LTD
ACN 003 209 934

(thirteenth defendant)

CLOSERIDGE PTY LTD
ACN 010 560 157

(fourteenth defendant)

WARATAH COAL PTY LTD
ACN 114 165 669

(fifteenth defendant)

CHINA FIRST PTY LTD
ACN 135 588 411

(sixteenth defendant)

COLD MOUNTAIN STUD PTY LTD
ACN 119 455 248

(seventeenth defendant)

EVGENIA BEDNOVA

(eighteenth defendant)

ALEXANDER GUEORGUIEV SOKOLOV

(nineteenth defendant)

ZHENGHONG ZHANG

(twentieth defendant)

SCI LE COEUR DE L’OCEAN

(twenty-first defendant)

DOMENIC MARTINO

(twenty-second defendant)

MARCUS WILLIAM AYRES

(first defendant added by counterclaim)

STEFAN DOPKING

(second defendant added by counterclaim)

FILE NO/S:

SC No 6593 of 2017

DIVISION:

Trial Division

PROCEEDING:

Application

DELIVERED EX TEMPORE ON:

25 May 2018

DELIVERED AT:

Brisbane

HEARING DATE:

25 May 2018

JUDGE:

Bond J

ORDER:

The application is dismissed.

CATCHWORDS:

PROCEDURE – CIVIL PROCEEDINGS IN STATE AND TERRITORY COURTS – JUDGMENTS AND ORDERS – GENERALLY – where judgment delivered on an interlocutory application in a proceeding – where judgment imposed freezing orders on certain defendants in the proceeding – where defendants applied for a 21-day interim stay of the orders to provide time to consider the reasons for judgment pending a full application for a stay pending appeal – whether the undertakings offered by the defendants constituted a sufficient change in circumstances – whether the calculus of the interests of justice has changed following the delivery of judgment – whether the interests of justice justify an interim stay

COUNSEL:

T Sullivan QC for the plaintiffs

K A Barlow QC for the eighth to fourteenth defendants

D O’Sullivan QC for the first, second, fourth, seventh, fifteenth and sixteenth defendants

SOLICITORS:

King & Wood Mallesons for the plaintiffs

Robinson Neilson for the eighth to fourteenth defendants

Alexander Law for the first, second, fourth, seventh, fifteenth and sixteenth defendants

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