Australia, April 13 -- New South Wales Land and Environment Court issued text of the following judgement on March 13:
1. On 6 March 2025, I delivered the principal judgment in these proceedings - D'Cruz v Coutinho [2025] NSWSC 150.
2. The first, second and fourth defendants did not appear and their defences were struck out. The sixth defendant (Sequeira) did appear.
3. The Court then heard the matter on its merits and the plaintiffs succeeded against the first, second, fourth and sixth defendants, obtaining judgment against them for $854,010, together with pre-judgment interest to 1 January 2025 of $194,237, making a total of $1,048,247.
4. I provisionally ordered that those defendants pay the plaintiffs' costs on the footing that the o...