Mackay Refined Sugars (NZ) Ltd v New Zealand Sugar Co Ltd - [1997] 3 NZLR 476

Practice and procedure — Stay of proceedings — Plaintiff issuing proceedings against defendant in Australia and in New Zealand — Claims similar — Australian proceedings well advanced — Considerable effort required to meet requirements of Australian Court precedent to trial — Whether New Zealand proceedings should be stayed — Principles applicable to stay of proceedings where similar proceedings issued in two countries.