Re Estate Capelin, deceased [2022] NSWSC 236

Supreme Court New South Wales

Medium Neutral Citation: Re Estate Capelin, deceased [2022] NSWSC 236 Hearing dates: 14 February 2022 Decision date: 08 March 2022 Jurisdiction: Equity Before: Lindsay J Decision: ORDERS providing for dismissal of a motion for an order that a caveat cease to be in force, and for case management of a contested probate suit Catchwords: SUCCESSION — Contested probate — Practice and procedure — Caveats — Caveat against grant —Notice of motion for an order that caveat cease to be in force — Whether there is a doubt as to whether the will should be admitted to probate sufficient to warrant investigation in a contested probate suit — Caveator's case not frivolous but bona fide and reasonable Legislation Cited: Civil Procedure Act 2005 NSW Evidence Act 1995 NSW Probate Act 1890 NSW Probate and Administration Act 1898 NSW Succession Act 2006 NSW Supreme Court Rules 1970 NSW Supreme Court Act 1970 NSW Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 2005 NSW Cases Cited: Azzopardi v Smart (the estate of Alice Ann Smart) (1992) 27 NSWLR 232 Bailey v Bailey (1924) 34 CLR 558 Banks v Goodfellow (1870) LR 5 QB 549 Bates v Messner and (1967) 67 SR (NSW) 187 Beatson v Perry (1906) 6 SR (NSW) 167; 23 WN (NSW) 51 Castlemaine Tooheys Ltd v South Australia (1986) 161 CLR 148 Dickman v Holly [2013] NSWSC 18 Estate of Robyn Alice May Linworth [2021] NSWSC 334 Estate of Theresa Katalinic [2020] NSWSC 805 Estate Rofe [2021] NSWSC 257 Gardiner v Hughes (2017) 54 VR 394 Gertsch v Roberts (1993) 35 NSWLR 631 Hall v Hall (1868) LR 1 P&D 481 Hay v Simpson (1890) 11 LR (NSW) Eq 109) In Estate of Katalinic [2020] NSWSC 805 In Estate of Linworth [2021] NSWSC 334 In the Goods of William Loveday [1900] P 154 In the Will of Dixon (1909) 9 SR (NSW) 674; 26 WN 130 In the Will of Farrell (1891) 8 WN (NSW) 32 In the Will of Goo Tin (1910) 27 WN (NSW) 184 In the Will of O'Driscoll (1929) 29 SR (NSW) 559; 46 WN (NSW) 176 In the Will of R C Maddocks (1891) 8 WN (NSW) 32 Lewis v Lewis [2021] NSWCA 168 Mekhail v Hana [2019] NSWCA 197 Nobarani v Mariconte (2018) 265 CLR 236 Nock v Austin (1918) 25 CLR 519; Petrovski v Nasev [2011] NSWSC 1275 Re Estate of Griffith; Easter v Griffith (1995) 217 ALR 284 Re Estates Brooker-Pain and Soulos [2019] NSWSC 871 Timbury v Coffee (1941) 66 CLR 277 Tobin v Ezekiel (2012) 83 NSWLR 757 Trustee for the Salvation Army (NSW) Property Trust v Becker [2007] NSWCA 136 Water Conservation and Irrigation Commission (NSW) v Browning (1947) 74 CLR 492 Weinstock v Beck; In the Estate of Weinstock [2007] NSWSC 193; (2007) 1 ASTLR 156 Wilson v Wilson [2017] NSWSC 1669 Wingrove v Wingrove (1885) 11 PD 81 Winter v Crichton (1991) 23 NSWLR 116 Worth v Clasohm (1952) 86 CLR 439 Texts Cited: Burn, The Ecclesiastical Law (London, 9th ed, 1842) Godolphin, The Orphan's Legacy or a Testamentary Abridgement (London, 4th ed, 1701): Part I, page 30 and Part II, pages 101 and 258 Hastings and Weir, Probate Law and Practice (Lawbook Co, Sydney, 2nd ed, 1948) Mason and Handler, Succession Law and Practice, NSW (LexisNexis, Australia, a Loose Leaf Service) Ritchie's Supreme Court Procedure (NSW) E V Williams, A Treatise on the Law of Executors and Administrators (the 2nd American ed, 1841) Category: Procedural rulings Parties: Plaintiff: Andrew Peter Capelin Caveator: Timothy Charles Capelin Representation: Counsel: Plaintiff: JEF Brown Caveator: JE Armfield