Australia, Aug. 21 -- New South Wales Land and Environment Court issued text of the following judgement on July 21:

1. The parties to these proceedings are in dispute about their arrangements for the ownership, and entitlement to the profits, of a service station business. It should have been a relatively straightforward matter. It has not proven to be so.

2. The plaintiff/cross-defendants are SNS Petro Pty Ltd and Mr Shobhit Saigal. The defendant/cross-claimant is Mr Gaurav Goel.

3. These proceedings were commenced as long ago as 2019. The plaintiffs and their solicitors have conducted them in a manner that has been, to use the candid description of counsel who briefly appeared for them in the matter, "atrocious". As a result of that co...