Mention
• Costs awarded to defendants for 17 June 2005 directions hearing, strike out application and thrown away.
• Timetable set for requesting and supplying particulars

Text of the 3 DAY hearing in the first strike out application. Each day of hearing has about 50 pages of transcript. The defendants succeeded in having Gunns' first and second statements of claim thrown out.

Directions Hearing
• Requested by plaintiffs. They seek to push back timetable.
• Judge refuses application and awards costs for the day to defendants.
• 4 July 2005 confirmed for strike out

Half-day hearing in Melbourne. Orders made by Judge Bongiorno that Gunns provide further and better particulars by 10 June 2005. Gunns ordered to pay for cost of transcript. Strike out hearing foreshadowed for June/July.

Short hearing in Melbourne:
• Plaintiffs don’t attend.
• Case moved to major torts list
• Judge expresses concern about statement of claim