Centrebet Pty Ltd v Baasland

[2013] NTSC 59

Supreme Court of the Northern Territory

Built by Barristers,
For Australian Law.

1. Private International Law
2. › Declarations
3. › Negative declarations
4. › Power to declare - Gambling contract
5. › Need for utility in the declaration being sought - Absence of defendant duly served under Hague Convention
6. › Similar declaration made in United Kingdom in relation to the same defendant based upon identical allegations made against another provider
1. Private International Law
2. › Choice of law - Jurisdiction - Applicable law
3. › Parties stipulated Australian law
4. › Foreign court asserts jurisdiction
5. › Foreign court may apply own law
6. › Appeal pending
1. Private International Law
2. › Forum non conveniens - Stay of proceedings where proceedings already commenced in another country
3. › Substantive proceedings in foreign court delayed - Local forum not “clearly inappropriate”
4. › Not vexatious or oppressive for local proceedings to continue
5. › Enforceability of foreign judgment in Australia
1. Torts
2. › Betting and gaming
3. › Internet betting
4. › No duty of care owed to gambler
5. › Gambler used money borrowed under false pretences