PITKIN v HENDERSON [2001] NSWSC 207

New South Wales Supreme Court

CITATION : PITKIN v HENDERSON [2001] NSWSC 207 CURRENT JURISDICTION: Equity Division FILE NUMBER(S) : SC 4304/99 HEARING DATE(S) : 6/3/01 JUDGMENT DATE : 29 March 2001

PARTIES : DRUSCILLA PITKIN v KENNETH BRUCE HENDERSON (ESTATE LATE KATHLEEN MONIC WALSH) JUDGMENT OF : Master Macready at 1

COUNSEL : Mr R.D. Wilson for plaintiff Mr P. Blackburn-Hart for defendant SOLICITORS : Patrick Grimes & Co for plaintiff Robertson Saxton Primrose Dunn for defendant CATCHWORDS : Family Provision. Application by sister in respect of an estate of $615,000 which substantially passed to the deceased's solicitor. Solicitor not a relative but had managed the deceased's affairs for six years before her death. Whether sister should have the fee simple or a Crisp order in respect of the deceased's home. In the circumstances fee simple appropriate. Re Guskett (deceased) (1947) VLR 211 Massie v Laundy Young J (unreported 7 February 1986) Fancett v Ware Needham J (3 June 1986) Phillips v Quinton Powell J (unreported 31 March 1988) Basto v Basto Hodgson J (unreported 8 September 1989) De Winter v Johnston Court of Appeal 23 August 1995 Re Fulop deceased (1987) 8 NSWLR 679 Churton v Christian (1988) 13 NSWLR 241 Brown v Faggoter Court of Appeal 13 November 1998 CASES CITED : Singer Berghouse (1994) 181 CLR 201 Crisp v Burns Philp & Co Holland J 18 December 1979 Banks v Hourigan Waddell CJ in Equity 2 March 1989 Cameron v Hills Needham J 26 October 1989. White v Barron (1979-1980) 144 CLR 431 Court v Hunt Young J (unreported 14 September 1987 Golosky & Anor v Golosky Court of Appeal 5 October 1993 Permanent Trustee v Fraser Sheller JA 36 NSWLR 24 Shearer v Public Trustee Young J 23 Nov 1998 Anasson v Phillips, Young J 4 March 1988 DECISION : Paragraph 47