Litigation Fund WCX Pty Ltd v Homebuilding Pty Ltd

[2025] NSWCA 16

NSW Court of Appeal

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Catchwords

1. Civil Procedure
2. › Interpleader
3. › Sheriff's interpleader
4. › Whether interpleader required to be brought by Sheriff's alternate
5. › Whether proceedings are ones to which the Sheriff is a party
6. › Sheriff Act 2005 (NSW), s 6(1)(a)
7. › Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 2005 (NSW), Pt 43
1. Statutory Interpretation
2. › Construction of Sheriff Act 2005 (NSW), s 6(1)
3. › Whether reference to 'the Sheriff's functions in relation to' refers to function of commencing or maintaining legal proceedings to which the Sheriff is a party
4. › Whether contravention of s 6 requires mandatory dismissal of proceedings
5. › Project Blue Sky Inc v Australian Broadcasting Authority (1998) 194 CLR 355 applied

Quick Take

A breach of s 6 of the Sheriff Act 2005 (NSW) by the filing of a Sheriff's interpleader application does not result in mandatory dismissal or nullity of the application, but is at most a curable irregularity; and the Sheriff is not a 'party' to proceedings within s 6(1)(a) merely by filing an interpleader motion in those proceedings.