New Zealand Case Law: Decisions & Judgments | LexChat

New Zealand Case Law

Deed of assumption
  • 12 Apr 2010

    INDUSTRIAL GROUP LTD V J D BAKKER AND ANOR HC AK CIV-2009-404-006432

    Citation
    openlaw-55e7dc3c_bc4b_424f_b4df_c9ae05bf620f.pdf
    Court
    High Court

    The Court applied South Australian law to the substantive disputes, held that IGL had an arguable claim only to the contractually prescribed price adjustment under clause 2.2 (reducing total to A$1,310,000), that IGL had affirmed the contracts and could not rescind the deed or rely on Unibag's termination, that IGL had not proved a fairly arguable counterclaim or set-off sufficient under s 290(4)(b) to reduce net liability below the prescribed amount, and that Fair Trading claims were time barred; accordingly statutory demands were set aside only to the extent of the adjusted sums and IGL was…