Daily Banking: Thursday, 25 February 2016
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Daily Banking

Executive Summary (One Minute Read)
Mateljan v HTT Huntley Heritage Pty Ltd (NSWCA) - equity - assignment - appellant’s application to be substituted for company in appeal proceedings dismissed
Bodycorp Repairers Pty Ltd v Oakley Thompson & Co Pty Ltd (VSCA) - stay - security for costs - application for stay refused - application for security for costs granted
Kerr v Kerr (No 2) (SASC) - costs - wills and estates - rectification of second codicil to deceased’s Will - costs to be paid from estate
Williams v Schwarback [No 2] (WASC) - Wills and estates - probate in solemn form sought in respect of 2009 Will - deceased’s testamentary capacity infected by delusional beliefs about son - probate refused in respect of 2009 Will - probate of earlier Will granted
Ryan v Ryan (TASSC) - equitable estoppel - proprietary estoppel - equitable compensation - plaintiff to be reimbursed for outlay of sum made on faith of deceased’s representations concerning property

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Mateljan v HTT Huntley Heritage Pty Ltd [2016] NSWCA 20
Court of Appeal of New South Wales
Gleeson & Leeming JJA; Emmett AJA
Equity - assignment - appellant sought to be substituted for Land Enviro Corp Pty Ltd (LEC) as appellant in appeal proceedings in relation to orders made by judge of Equity Division - appellant claimed entitlement by way of assignment from LEC, to benefit of causes of action in appeal proceedings - respondents contended purported assignment ineffective - purported assignment’s mechanism - insolvencies - substitution motions - ss5, 27, 58, 115, 116, 178 & 179 Bankruptcy Act 1966 (Cth) - s77 The Commonwealth Constitution - s420 Corporations Act 2001 (Cth) - ss3, 4 & 6 Jurisdiction of Courts (Cross Vesting) Act 1987 (Cth) - s87 Trade Practices Act 1974 (Cth) - held: substitution motion dismissed.
Mateljan
Bodycorp Repairers Pty Ltd v Oakley Thompson & Co Pty Ltd [2016] VSCA 19
Court of Appeal of Victoria
Tate & Osborne JJA
Stay - security for costs - applicant sought to stay orders pending determination of application for leave to appeal and proposed appeal - respondent sought that applicant provide security for costs of proposed appeal under r64.38(2) Supreme Court (General Civil Procedure) Rules 2015 (Vic) or s1335(1) Corporations Act 2001 (Cth) - prejudice - whether there were special circumstances due to applicant’s lack of resources - held: stay application was premised on risk which was hypothetical and which Court did not accept had probable substance - there was risk of prejudice to respondent if stay granted - stay refused.
Bodycorp
Kerr v Kerr (No 2) [2016] SASC 24
Supreme Court of South Australia
Gray J
Costs - wills and estates - Court ordered rectification of second codicil to deceased’s Will - one executor had agitated for rectification of codicil and other executor agitated against rectification, and there was affidavit evidence supporting application and affidavit evidence which could defeat it - application for payment of costs out of estate - held: Court did not consider defendant unreasonable to oppose rectification - not unreasonable for executor to join defendant in opposing rectification - there should be no departure from usual order - costs to be paid from estate.
Kerr
Williams v Schwarback [No 2] [2016] WASC 43
Supreme Court of Western Australia
Chaney J
Wills and estates - testamentary capacity - first and second plaintiffs sought declaration that 2009 Will was the deceased's last will and proof of 2009 Will in solemn form - r13 Non-contentious Probate Rules 1967 (WA) - O 73 r11, O 73 r 19 Rules of the Supreme Court 1971 (WA) - held: Court satisfied deceased’s testamentary capacity was infected by delusional beliefs about son which influenced her in disposition of her property reflected in 2009 Will - 2009 Will not a valid - Court pronounced force and validity of 2006 Will.
Williams
Ryan v Ryan [2016] TASSC 4
Supreme Court of Tasmania
Estcourt J
Equitable estoppel - proprietary estoppel - equitable compensation - plaintiff claimed deceased father made representations to him that he would give property to him and that he relied on those representations to his detriment - onus - whether representations made - whether objectively reasonable for plaintiff to rely on representations - whether plaintiff established he relied on representations to detriment - held: plaintiff was induced to make monetary outlay on faith of deceased's assurances - not unconscionable for deceased to resile from the assurances if first defendant reimbursed plaintiff for outlay - first defendant to pay plaintiff sum of actual loss by way of equitable compensation.
Ryan