NSW Caselaw
SPELLSON v GEORGE
SUPREME COURT OF NEW SOUTH WALES — COURT OF APPEAL
HANDLEY JA, Hope AJA and YOUNG AJA 31 October, 1 November 1991, 3 April 1992
[1992] NSWCA 254
TRUSTS — breach of trust — alleged consent by beneficiary — consent sought to be inferred from conduct — consent must be communicated — beneficiary must have knowledge of material facts.
BREACH OF TRUST — consent by beneficiary — must be communicated — silence as consent — beneficiary must have knowledge of material facts.
PRACTICE — summary dismissal — proceedings for breach of trust — alleged consent by plaintiff — defence not filed — issues of fact — issues of credit — summary dismissal not appropriate.
RSC Pt 13 r 5(1)(b), (c)
Walker v Symonds (1818) 3 Swans | (36 ER 751)
Duke of Leeds v Earl of Amherst (1846) 2 Ph 117 (41 ER 886. Phillipson v Gatty (1848) 7 Hare 516 (68 ER 213).
Burrows v Walls (1855) 5 De G M & G 233 (43 ER 859).
Lockhart v Reilly (1856) 25 LJ Ch 697.
Stafford v Stafford (1857) 1 De G & J 193 (44 ER 697).
Gardner v Gardner (1859) 1 Giff. 126 (65 ER 853).
Morden v Porter (1860) 20 LJ MC 213.
Life Association of Scotland v Siddal (1861) 3 De G F & J 58 (45 ER 800). Farrant v Blanchford (1863) 1 De GJ & S 107 (46 ER 42).
Evans v Smallcombe (1868) LR 3 HL 249.
R v Slattery (1877) 2 QBD 410.
De Bussche v Alt (1878) 8 Ch D 286.
Re Garnett (1885) 31 Ch D 1.
Evans v Benyon (1887) 37 Ch D 329.
Ford v Ford (1887) 10 NE 474.
McCarthy v Railroad Corp (1889) 20 NE 182.
O'Brien v Cunard SS Co Ltd (1891) 28 NE 266.
Chillingworth v Chambers (1896) 1 Ch 685.
Cashman v 7 North Golden Gate Gold Mining Co (1897) 7 QLJ 152. Swan v Perpetual Executors & Trustees (1897) 23 VLR 293. Fletcher v Collis (1905) 2 Ch 24.
Bayne v Baillieu (1908) 6 CLR 382.
Re Page (1910) 1 Ch 489.
Glasson v Fuller (1922) SASR 148.
Hourigan v Trustees Executors & Agency Co Ltd (1934) 51 CLR 619. O'Connor v S P Bray Ltd (1936) 36 SR 248.
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