Valuer-General - V - Perpetual Trustee Australia Limited [1999] NSWLEC 10

Land and Environment Court of New South Wales CITATION: Valuer-General - V - Perpetual Trustee Australia Limited [1999] NSWLEC 10

PARTIES Appellant Valuer-General

Respondent Perpetual Trustee Australia Limited

NUMBER: 30162, 30163 of 1996

CORAM: Lloyd J

:- Appeal, s56A KEY ISSUES: Whether any question of law involved A caes may be decided on a principle not referred to by either party

Appeal, s56A LEGISLATION CITED: Whether any question of law involved A caes may be decided on a principle not referred to by either party

DATES OF HEARING: 12/15/1998

DATE OF JUDGMENT DELIVERY: 02/10/1999

Appellant J A Ayling (i/b Taylor Kelso) LEGAL REPRESENTATIVES: Respondent P D McClellan QC (i/b Clayton Utz)

JUDGMENT:

1. These are two appeals under the Land & Environment Court Act 1979, s 56A against the decisions and orders of the Senior Assessor (as the Senior Commissioner was then called). The proceedings which were heard and determined by the Senior Assessor were appeals under the Valuation of Land Act 1916, s 38(1) against the Valuer-General's refusal to support an objection in each case to his assessment of land value under that Act.