FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA

 

HECEC Australia Pty Ltd v Hydro-Electric Corp [1999] FCA 822

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

HECEC AUSTRALIA PTY LIMITED V HYDRO-ELECTRIC CORPORATION AND ORS

 

NG 634 OF 1998

 

 

 

THE HON JUSTICE MARCUS EINFELD AO

SYDNEY (heard in Canberra)

25 JUNE 1999


IN THE FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA

 

NEW SOUTH WALES DISTRICT REGISTRY

NG 634 OF 1998

 

BETWEEN:

HECEC AUSTRALIA PTY LIMITED [ACN 074 518 077]

Applicant

 

AND:

HYDRO-ELECTRIC CORPORATION [ARBN 072 377 158]

First Respondent

 

PREMIER AND TREASURER OF TASMANIA

Second Respondent

 

MINISTER FOR ENERGY

Third Respondent

 

STATE OF TASMANIA

Fourth Respondent

 

AURORA ENERGY PTY LIMITED [ACN 082 464 622]

Fifth Respondent

 

TRANSEND NETWORKS PTY LIMITED [ACN 082 586 892]

Sixth Respondent

 

 

REASONS FOR JUDGMENT – CORRIGENDA

 

1.      Orders Page

Order 1 should read:

 

the motions of the respondents dated 19 and 26 October 1998 be dismissed

 

2.      Page 2, para 2

The second line should read:

notices dated 19 and 26 October 1998 by the Tasmanian parties on the one hand, and the HEC on the other…

 

3.      Page 2, para 3

Lines 1 and 2 should read:

In 1995, the HEC and HEC Enterprise decided, possibly as part of a then mooted corporatised disaggregation of the HEC, that a new company…

 

4.      Page 9, para 24

Line 1 should commence:

The HEC's conduct was also…

 

5.      Page 9, para 25

Line 2 should read:

contract based on actual or anticipatory breaches.

 

6.      Page 13, para 40

Line 4: the fifth word should be "infirmity"

 

7.      Page 15 para 45

Line 4: the first figure after "paragraphs" should be "37"

 

8.      Page 22 para 69

In item 1(c), the fifth word should be "was"

 

9.      Page 27 para 83

Line 4: the last word should be "founded" (it is now the first word on line 5)

Line 8: after "Lehane" add ", ibid"

 

10.  Page 29

The first paragraph of the third line should read:

no basis for striking it out summarily.

 

 

 

Associate:

 

Dated:              2 July 1999