Read the full judgment text of HCA 005564/1996 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 9 April 1997.
1. There are two sets of proceedings before me which have been consolidated by order of the Registrar dated 4 November 1996. Somewhat unusually, an originating summons was consolidated with a writ action without any directions being given or sought as to the further conduct of the consolidated proceedings. An appointment was taken out for the hearing of the originating summons with the result that the normal steps to be taken in a writ action before it could be set down for trial were effectivel