Australia, June 24 -- New South Wales Land and Environment Court issued text of the following judgement on May 23:
1. The plaintiff sues on what he alleges to be guarantees given by the defendant in respect of her husband's debts. The guarantees sued upon are both an oral guarantee (the "Oral Guarantee"), and a document purporting to have been a guarantee in written form (the "Written Guarantee"). The Written Guarantee was said to be executed by the defendant in India. The Oral Guarantee purportedly arose out of a telephone conversation. This telephone conversation is said to have occurred in circumstances where the defendant was in India, and the plaintiff was in New Zealand.
2. Neither party has made any attempt to confront the private ...