Read the full judgment text of HCA 001047/1981 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 21 February 1984.
1. The Defendant ("H.I.L.") in this action applies under the inherent jurisdiction of the court to have the action dismissed for want of prosecution by the Plaintiffs. I reserved judgment at the end of a hard fought hearing of five and a half days, partly out of deference to the full argument of Mr. Alexander Irvine for H.I.L. and Mr. John Beveridge for the Plaintiffs, and partly to enable me to consider carefully the additional evidence filed by both sides during the hearing. The Plaintiffs' ev