PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE - separate question - stay of proceeding - cross-vesting - respondent's application for bifurcation of the proceeding to determine liability and causation first and quantum later or to stay the proceeding - where there is a related proceeding in the Land and Environment Court of New South Wales (LEC proceeding) in which the amount of compensation given for compulsory acquisition of the applicant's property is being challenged - where that amount has a direct bearing on the assessment of the applicant's damages (if any) in the instant proceeding - where there are overlapping issues and there is likely to be overlapping evidence and the risk of conflicting findings in the two proceedings - whether in the circumstances bifurcation or stay pending the resolution of the LEC proceeding should be ordered - where an alternative course is to transfer or cross-vest the proceeding to another court such that all issues are determined in the same court - stay pending removal of the LEC proceeding to the Supreme Court of New South Wales and then transfer of the instant proceeding to the Supreme Court
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