Turch v Tripolone [2025] NSWSC 86

Supreme Court New South Wales

Medium Neutral Citation: Turch v Tripolone [2025] NSWSC 86 Hearing dates: 2-3 December 2024 Date of orders: 21 February 2025 Decision date: 21 February 2025 Jurisdiction: Equity Before: Richmond J Decision: See [168]-[170] Catchwords: EQUITY — Trusts and trustees — Breaches of trust EQUITY — Fiduciary duties — Breach — Conflict of interest and duty SUCCESSION — Executors and administrators — Proceedings against executors and administrators — Application for removal SUCCESSION — Executors and administrators — Rights, powers and duties Legislation Cited: Conveyancing Act 1919 (NSW) Income Tax Assessment Act 1997 (Cth) Probate and Administration Act 1898 (NSW) Succession Act 2006 (NSW) Trustee Act 1925 (NSW) Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 2005 (NSW) Cases Cited: Armitage v Nurse [1998] Ch 241 Bates v Messner (1967) 67 SR (NSW) 187 Bovaird v Trustee of the Bankrupt Estate of Frost [2010] FCA 1159 Bray v Ford [1896] AC 44 Burrell v Burrell's Trustees [1915] SC 333 Calvo v Sweeney [2009] NSWSC 719 Carrington v Wallace [2022] NSWSC 1078 Clay v Clay (2001) 202 CLR 410; [2001] HCA 9 Colyton Investments Pty Ltd v McSorley (1962) 107 CLR 177 Commissioner of Stamp Duties (Queensland) v Livingston [1965] AC 694 Everts v Liepens [2022] NSWSC 1021 Ferraby v Hobson (1847) 2 Ph. 255; 41 ER 940 Frost v Bovaird (2014) 223 FCR 275; [2014] FCAFC 20 Galea v Camilleri [2019] NSWSC 167 Galea v Camilleri; Estate of Patricia Camilleri [2023] NSWSC 206 Gritzman v McRae [2022] NSWSC 745 Heywood v Pryor (1905) 23 WN (NSW) 44a Holder v Holder [1968] Ch 353 Howling v Kristofferson (Supreme Court (NSW), Cohen J, 14 October 1992, unrep) In the Goods of Loveday [1900] P 154 In the Trusts of the Will of James Frampton [1943] QWN 29 Ingram v Inland Revenue Commissioners [1997] 4 All ER 395 John Alexander's Clubs Pty Ltd v White City Tennis Club Ltd (2010) 241 CLR 1; [2010] HCA 19 Jones v Dunkel (1959) 101 CLR 298 Juul v Northey [2010] NSWCA 211 Karger v Paul [1984] VR 161 Lewis v Hillman (1852) 3 HL Cas 607 Mangravitti v Donato [2009] NSWSC 1258 Mavrideros v Mack [1998] NSWCA 286; (1998) 45 NSWLR 80 Mills v Mills [2015] EWHC 1522 (Ch) Newgate Stud Co v Penfold [2004] EWHC 2993 (Ch) Re Chapman; Cocks v Chapman [1896] 2 Ch 763 Re Douglas (1928) 29 SR (NSW) 48 Re Estate Luce; Turch v Tripolone [2020] NSWSC 117 Re Stevens; Cooke v Stevens [1898] 1 Ch 162 Re Thompson's Settlement [1986] Ch 99 Re Walder; Townsend v Walder (1903) 3 SR (NSW) 375 Robertson v Robertson [1924] NZLR 552 Stamoulos v Constantinidis [2017] NSWSC 1808 Stanojevic v Damnjanovic & Anor [2024] VSC 350 Tanti v Carlson [1948] VLR 401 The Estate of Frances Kedesch Michell [2020] NSWSC 1300 Tito v Waddell (No 2) [1977] Ch 106 Union Trustee Co of Australia Ltd v Gorrie [1962] Qd R 605 Williams v Stephens (1986) 17 BPR 33,839 Wright v Morgan [1926] AC 788 Texts Cited: GE Dal Pont, Law of Succession (3rd ed, 2021, LexisNexis) JD Heydon and MJ Leeming, Jacobs' Law of Trusts in Australia (8th ed, 2016, LexisNexis) L Tucker, N Le Poidevin, J Brightwell, Lewin on Trusts (20th ed, 2020, ThomsonReuters) Williams, Mortimer and Sunnucks, Executors, Administrators and Probate (22nd edition, 2023, ThomsonReuters) Category: Principal judgment Parties: Roberto Guissepe Turch (Plaintiff) Diana Sandra Tripolone (Defendant) Representation: Counsel: T Cleary (Plaintiff) D Reid (Defendant)