Multistar Pty Ltd v Minister for Urban Affairs & Planning & Anor [2000] NSWLEC 79

Multistar Pty Ltd v Minister for Urban Affairs & Planning & Anor [2000] NSWLEC 79

Leave to amend was granted because the Class 4 proceedings challenging the validity of the amending LEP had been commenced within the s 35 time limit, the amendments merely added additional grounds of challenge to the making and validity of the same instrument, raised no new cause of action and did not question the validity of an LEP for the first time. The agreed discovery process did not make the amendments improper, and the Court's rules and the interests of justice required that the applicant's challenge be properly litigated.

Jurisdiction
Australia
Judgment Date
20 April 2000
Procedural Posture
Class 4 Proceedings Challenging the Validity of an Amending Local Environmental Plan / Notice of Motion for Leave to File Amended Points of Claim
Outcome
Notice of Motion granted; applicant granted leave to file Amended Points of Claim; Second Respondent ordered to pay the applicant's costs of the Notice of Motion.
Legal Topics
['amendment of Points of Claim' 'discovery' 'privative Clauses' 'validity of Environmental Planning Instruments' 'local Environmental Plans']
['planning and Environment Law' 'administrative Law' 'civil Procedure'] ['amendment of Points of Claim' 'discovery' 'privative Clauses' 'validity of Environmental Planning Instruments' 'local Environmental Plans']

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Procedural Posture

Class 4 Proceedings Challenging the Validity of an Amending Local Environmental Plan / Notice of Motion for Leave to File Amended Points of Claim

Legal Issues

  1. 1 ['Whether the applicant should be granted leave to amend its Points of Claim after the time limit in s 35 of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 had expired.' "Whether the proposed amendments improperly arose from the applicant's review of documents obtained on discovery." 'Whether the proposed amendments raised a new cause of action or merely added additional grounds to an existing challenge to the validity of the amending LEP.' 'Whether s 35 of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 precluded the proposed amendments.']

Ratio Decidendi

Leave to amend was granted because the Class 4 proceedings challenging the validity of the amending LEP had been commenced within the s 35 time limit, the amendments merely added additional grounds of challenge to the making and validity of the same instrument, raised no new cause of action and did not question the validity of an LEP for the first time. The agreed discovery process did not make the amendments improper, and the Court's rules and the interests of justice required that the applicant's challenge be properly litigated.

Court Disposition

Notice of Motion granted; applicant granted leave to file Amended Points of Claim; Second Respondent ordered to pay the applicant's costs of the Notice of Motion.

Orders

  • ['The applicant be granted leave to file Amended Points of Claim in the form of the draft annexed to, and marked "A" in, the affidavit of Paul Nikola Lalich of 6 April 2000, filed herein.' 'The Second Respondent pay the costs of the applicant in respect of this Notice of Motion.']