Mackellar Mining Equipment Pty Ltd and Dramatic Investments Pty Ltd t-as Partnership 818 & Anor v Thornton & Ors [2021] HCATrans 10 (10 February 2021)

Last Updated: 10 February 2021

[2021] HCATrans 010

IN THE HIGH COURT OF AUSTRALIA

Office of the Registry
Brisbane No B56 of 2019

B e t w e e n -

MACKELLAR MINING EQUIPMENT PTY LTD ACN 010 398 428 AND DRAMATIC INVESTMENTS PTY LTD ACN 059 863 204 T/AS PARTNERSHIP 818

First Appellant

JANET ELIZABETH WRIGHT AS REPRESENTATIVE OF THE ESTATE OF LESLIE ARTHUR WRIGHT (DECEASED)

Second Appellant

and

TRAD THORNTON

First Respondent

SHANE URQUHART

Second Respondent

ELIZABETH URQUHART

Third Respondent

FIONA NORRIS

Fourth Respondent

MIMIA WHAP

Fifth Respondent

GLENDON WOOSUP

Sixth Respondent

DEREECE WHAP

Seventh Respondent

TABUA WOOSUP

Eighth Respondent

RITA WHAP

Ninth Respondent

RAMSLEY WOOSUP

Tenth Respondent

OLIVE JOYCE BAGIE

Eleventh Respondent

DANIEL HUDSON

Twelfth Respondent

FLORENCE KEPA

Thirteenth Respondent

BETINA KEPA

Fourteenth Respondent

LEON BOWIE

Fifteenth Respondent

RENIA BOWIE

Sixteenth Respondent

SOLOMON BOWIE

Seventeenth Respondent

FRED BOWIE

Eighteenth Respondent

KALIS KEPA

Nineteenth Respondent

ERRIS ESELI

Twentieth Respondent

ANNIE BOWIE

Twenty-First Respondent

STEPHEN ROPEYARN

Twenty-Second Respondent

LUCY ROPEYARN

Twenty-Third Respondent

FRANCIS BOWIE

Twenty-Fourth Respondent

JOHNNY TAMWOOY

Twenty-Fifth Respondent

DALE BOWIE

Twenty-Sixth Respondent

FLOSSIE BOWIE

Twenty-Seventh Respondent

ELIZABETH STEPHEN

Twenty-Eighth Respondent

MARYANNE MIRIAM STEPHEN

Twenty-Ninth Respondent

CAROLINE THOMASINA STEPHEN

Thirtieth Respondent

RUBY GLORIA ROSEANNE STEPHEN

Thirty-First Respondent

FANNY MALETA FLORA NORA STEPHEN

Thirty-Second Respondent

EMMIA FRANCES NOBBY HELENA STEPHEN

Thirty-Third Respondent

FREDRICKA LOUISA KRIS

Thirty-Fourth Respondent

RIM THOMAS JOE NATAPUI STEPHEN

Thirty-Fifth Respondent

WANAKI MOOKA

Thirty-Sixth Respondent

PADIALA KRIS

Thirty-Seventh Respondent

EMAIMA KRIS

Thirty-Eighth Respondent

EMILY KEPA

Thirty-Ninth Respondent

SEBASTIAN BILLY

Fortieth Respondent

JOSEPH BILLY

Forty-First Respondent

KATRINA BILLY

Forty-Second Respondent

GORDON SOLOMON

Forty-Third Respondent

GLORIA SOLOMON

Forty-Fourth Respondent

LIONEL SOLOMON

Forty-Fifth Respondent

BESSIE BILLY

Forty-Sixth Respondent

GILLIAN HURST

Forty-Seventh Respondent

TAMLIN HARRIS

Forty-Eighth Respondent

MARY GREEN

Forty-Ninth Respondent

KERRI SONTER

Fiftieth Respondent

JANET MAREE LEWIS

Fifty-First Respondent

STEVEN LEWIS

Fifty-Second Respondent

BEN LEWIS

Fifty-Third Respondent

MELISSA BRADY

Fifty-Fourth Respondent

JOHN HOTCHIN

Fifty-Fifth Respondent

JANE HOTCHIN

Fifty-Sixth Respondent

GREGORY ROBERT HOTCHIN

Fifty-Seventh Respondent

DENISE J. KALIN

Fifty-Eighth Respondent

ROGER DOWN

Fifty-Ninth Respondent

MARY ESELI

Sixtieth Respondent

LEONARD ROBERT HOTCHIN

Sixty-First Respondent

KIEFEL CJ
GAGELER J
EDELMAN J

TRANSCRIPT OF PROCEEDINGS

AT CANBERRA ON WEDNESDAY, 10 FEBRUARY 2021, AT 9.45 AM

Copyright in the High Court of Australia

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KIEFEL CJ: The parties to this appeal filed a consent on 27 January 2021 to the making of orders disposing of the proceeding. The Court makes the following orders:

1. Appeal allowed in part.

2. Set aside orders 2 to 11 of the orders made by the Supreme Court of Queensland on 10 September 2018 and orders 2 and 3 of the orders made by the Court of Appeal of the Supreme Court of Queensland on 7 May 2019, and in their place order that:

(a) proceeding number BS2252 of 2017 in the Supreme Court of Queensland be discontinued, and

(b) each party bear its own costs of the proceedings in the Supreme Court of Queensland and in the Court of Appeal of the Supreme Court of Queensland.

3. Appeal otherwise dismissed.

4. Each party bear its own costs of the appeal to this Court.

I publish those orders.

AT 9.46 AM THE MATTER WAS CONCLUDED