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New South Wales Supreme Court CITATION : Fuggle v Sochacki [1999] NSWSC 1214 CURRENT JURISDICTION : Probate FILE NUMBER(S) : 117254/97 HEARING DATE(S) : 3, 4 & 5 November, 2 December 1999 JUDGMENT DATE : 3 December 1999
PARTIES : James Robert Fuggle (P) Andrew Nicholas Sochacki, Executor and Trustee of the Estate of the Late Dorothy Edith Boehm (D) JUDGMENT OF : Austin J
COUNSEL : B E Kinsella (P) J Blackman (D) SOLICITORS : James Fuggle Solicitors (P) Elliot & Sochacki (D) CATCHWORDS : WILLS - testamentary capacity - testatrix had Altzheimer's disease - conflicting opinions of geriatrician and psychiatrist - significance of consent order under Protected Estates Act ACTS CITED : Protected Estates Act 1983 (NSW) Banks v Goodfellow (1870) 5 QB 549 Bull v Fulton (1942) 66 CLR 295 Parker v Fellgate (1883) 8 PD 171 CASES CITED : Perpetual Trustee Co Ltd v Baker [1999] NSWCA 244 Re Estate of Griffith, Easter v Griffith (Court of Appeal New South Wales, unreported, 7 June 1995) Re Hodges (1988) 14 NSWLR 708 Timbury v Coffee (1942) 66 CLR 277 Woodhead v Perpetual Trustee Co Limited (1987) 11 NSWLR 267 DECISION : Proceedings to set aside probate of last will dismissed with costs
THE SUPREME COURT OF NEW SOUTH WALES EQUITY DIVISION
AUSTIN J
FRIDAY 3 DECEMBER 1999
117254/97 - ESTATE OF DOROTHY EDITH BOEHM; JAMES ROBERT FUGGLE V ANDREW NICHOLAS SOCHACKI
JUDGMENT (Ex tempore; revised 8 December 1999)
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