Greystone Distributions (Qld & NSW) Pty Ltd & Ors v Rostron Carlyle Solicitors & Ors

• 1. Practice and Procedure
  2. › Joinder of parties
  3. › Discretion to join parties under court rules
  4. › Whether desirable, just and convenient to join additional defendants
  5. › Whether refusal to join was reasonable exercise of discretion
  6. › Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 1999 (Qld), r 69(1)(b)(ii)
• 1. Practice and Procedure
  2. › Appeals from discretionary decisions
  3. › Case management orders
  4. › Standard of appellate review
  5. › Whether error of the kind identified in House v The King demonstrated
  6. › Whether appellate courts exercise particular caution in reviewing decisions pertaining to practice and procedure
• 1. Estoppel
  2. › Anshun estoppel
  3. › Whether risk of Anshun estoppel in future proceedings
  4. › Whether unreasonable not to join claims in first proceeding
  5. › Whether party who opposed joinder can later assert Anshun estoppel
  6. › Port of Melbourne Authority v Anshun Pty Ltd (1981) 147 CLR 589

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