| Ho v Ebert (NSWSC) - real property - caveat - alleged entitlement under Family Law Act 1975 (Cth) to property settlement did not create caveatable interest in land - extension of operation of caveat refused - summons dismissed |
| Malec Holdings Pty Ltd v Scotts Agencies Pty Ltd (in liq) (VSC) - corporations - statutory demand - off-setting claim established - statutory demand varied |
| Saunders v The Public Trustee (WASCA) - Wills and estates - probate - no error in finding testamentary capacity established - appeal dismissed |
| NRW Pty Ltd as Trustee for NRW Unit Trust v Samsung C & T Corporation (WASC) - construction contract - determination that Samsung pay amount to NRW- certiorari refused - leave to enforce determination granted |
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Ho v Ebert [2015] NSWSC 1468
Supreme Court of New South Wales
Kunc J
Real property - caveat - parties married in 2009 - relationship ended in 2014 - plaintiff sought extension of operation of a caveat she lodged over property of which defendant was registered proprietor - held: only basis for interest in property was alleged entitlement under Family Law Act 1975 (Cth) to a property settlement, which did not create caveatable interest in land which may be part of assets available for settlement - proper place for dispute was Federal Circuit Court - summons dismissed.
Ho
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Malec Holdings Pty Ltd v Scotts Agencies Pty Ltd (in liq) [2015] VSC 530
Supreme Court of Victoria
Gardiner J
Corporations - statutory demand - defendant served statutory demand on plaintiff for payment of debt for sale and delivery of fuel and other fluids - plaintiff applied pursuant to ss459G, 459H & 459J Corporations Act 2001 (Cth) to set aside demand on basis there was a genuine dispute about existence and the amount of debt and a genuine claim by way of set off and cross demand - held: genuine dispute not established - plaintiff established off-setting claim - demand varied to take into account establishment of offsetting claim
Malec
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Saunders v The Public Trustee [2015] WASCA 203
Court of Appeal of Western Australia
Buss JA; Beech & Mitchell JJ
Wills and estates - probate - testamentary capacity - trial judge ordered grant of probate in solemn form of deceased’s Will be made to Public Trustee - Will did not make provision for deceased’s daughters - appellant contended mother lacked testamentary capacity when making Will and that trial judge erred in finding testamentary capacity established - r r47(3)(d) Supreme Court (Court of Appeal) Rules 2005 (WA) - held: evidence adduced at trial established that at time she made Will, deceased had capacity to comprehend and appreciate claims on estate to which she ought give effect - no error by trial judge in finding testamentary capacity established - trial judge conducted trial in manner procedurally fair - appeal dismissed.
Saunders
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NRW Pty Ltd as Trustee for NRW Unit Trust v Samsung C & T Corporation [2015] WASC 369
Supreme Court of Western Australia
Mitchell J
Judicial review - construction contract - Samsung sought to quash adjudicator’ determination under Construction Contracts Act 2004 (WA) that Samsung amount to NRW - held: payment dispute arose when Samsung disputed payment claim made by NRW - adjudication application made within permissible time - adjudicator determined merits of dispute by reference to terms of construction contract - any error by adjudicator in construing certain contractual provisions was no more than misconstruction of construction contract and error within adjudicator's jurisdiction - Samsung's claimed set offs did not provide valid reason to refuse leave to enforce determination - certiorari refused - leave to enforce determination granted.
NRW
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Speech: “To be, or not to be, that is the question”
By William Shakespeare
(from Hamlet, spoken by Hamlet)
To be, or not to be, that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles
And by opposing end them. To die—to sleep,
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to: 'tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep;
To sleep, perchance to dream—ay, there's the rub:
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause—there's the respect
That makes calamity of so long life.
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
Th'oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,
The pangs of dispriz'd love, the law's delay,
The insolence of office, and the spurns
That patient merit of th'unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin? Who would fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscovere'd country, from whose bourn
No traveller returns, puzzles the will,
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all,
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprises of great pitch and moment
With this regard their currents turn awry
And lose the name of action.
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