Johnston v Brightstars Holding Company Pty Ltd

• 1. Practice and Procedure
  2. › Appeal
  3. › Fresh evidence on appeal
  4. › Appeal by way of rehearing
  5. › Whether appellants entitled to use notices to produce as speculative evidence-gathering exercise on appeal
  6. › Whether two-stage approach permissible
  7. › Supreme Court Act 1970 (NSW), ss 75A(5), 75A(7), 75A(8)
• 1. Practice and Procedure
  2. › Abuse of process
  3. › Notices to produce
  4. › Setting aside notices to produce
  5. › Whether plain irrelevance of documents to appeal proceedings sufficient to constitute abuse of process
  6. › Whether ulterior purpose required
• 1. Contract
  2. › Construction
  3. › Objective theory of contractual interpretation
  4. › Whether parties' uncommunicated subjective intentions relevant to construction of written contract
  5. › Instructions to solicitors regarding contractual letter
• 1. Equity
  2. › Estoppel
  3. › Representation
  4. › Whether subjective intention of representor relevant to estoppel claim
  5. › Whether what matters is what was communicated not what was intended

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