Petersons v Pitches

[2024] ACTSC 298

Case Title:        2024-09-27 Petersons v Pitches [2024] ACTSC 298

Citation:             [2024] ACTSC 298

Hearing Dates:                27 September 2024

Decision Date:                27 September 2024

Before: McWilliam J

Decision:           No order as to costs.

Catchwords:     COSTS – settlement of dispute – whether any party acted unreasonably – where both plaintiff and first defendant had secured success – where Territory involved in proceeding as landowner and not the entity responsible for the register relating to land – no order as to costs

Legislation Cited: Court Procedures Rules 2006 (ACT) r 1721(1) | Land Titles Act 1925 (ACT) ss 43, 160, 161

Cases Cited: Clarkson Williams Partners Pty Ltd v Vaughan (No 2) [2016] ACTCA 8

EMI Songs Australia Pty Ltd v Larrikin Music Publishing Pty Ltd [2011] FCAFC 92

Gray v Richards (No 2) [2014] HCA 47; 89 ALJR 113

Latoudis v Casey (1990) 170 CLR 534

Oshlack v Richmond River Council [1998] HCA 11; 193 CLR 72

Re Minister for Immigration & Ethnic Affairs; Ex Parte Lai Qin (1997) 186 CLR 622

Parties:               Rachael Petersons (Plaintiff)

Wendy Anne Pitches (First Defendant)

Registrar-General of the ACT (Second Defendant)

Gerry Bede Tongs (Third Defendant)

Paul Charles Leslie (Fourth Defendant)

Australian Capital Territory (Fifth Defendant)

Representation:

Counsel

R Arthur (Plaintiff)

Z Mason (First Defendant)

M Barnes (Fifth Defendant)

Solicitors

RMB Lawyers (Plaintiff)

Adero Law (First Defendant)

ACT Government Solicitors (Fifth Defendant)

File Number:    SC 165 of 2024