8 Jun 2012
MOORES ROWLAND (A Firm) AND ANOTHER v. GRANT THORNTON (A Firm) AND OTHERS
- Citation
- MOORES ROWLAND (A Firm) AND ANOTHER v. GRANT THORNTON (A Firm) AND OTHERS
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCA1126/2010
The court held the perfected consent orders could not be set aside in these interlocutory summonses because the court is functus officio once consent orders are perfected and the proper remedy is a fresh action to impeach such orders; even if some limited jurisdiction existed to set aside a nullity, the applicants had not established that Hart Giles lacked authority or that the orders were nullities and, in any event, the internal partnership dispute must be finally determined first; alternatively, granting the relief would unjustifiably frustrate the Settlement Deed and expose partners and t…