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New South Wales Supreme Court
CITATION : Young v Lamb [2000] NSWSC 733 CURRENT JURISDICTION: Equity FILE NUMBER(S) : SC 5096/98 HEARING DATE(S) : 15, 16 June 2000 JUDGMENT DATE : 27 July 2000
Robert Francis Patrick Young (P) Kenneth John Lamb (D1) PARTIES : Louise Ann Lamb (D2) William Thomas Newell (D3) Dianne Margaret Newell (D4) JUDGMENT OF : Austin J
COUNSEL : M Heath (P) R Colquhoun (D) SOLICITORS : Button Hawdon & McMahon (Batemans Bay) (P) Daryl Hurst (Moruya) (D) CATCHWORDS : CONTRACT - construction - principles applicable to construction of option to renew lease PARTNERSHIP - ss 5 & 6 of Partnership Act do not authorise a partner to exercise an option to renew a lease of the premises in which the partnership business is conducted REAL PROPERTY - lease - option to renew - letter stating 'intention to exercise' held not be an exercise of the option - service of letter on managing agent held not to be service on lessor for purposes of option clause Conveyancing Act 1919 (NSW) s 170 LEGISLATION CITED : Partnership Act 1892 (NSW) ss 5 & 6 Property Stock & Business Agents' Act 1941 (NSW) ss 42 & 42AA Ballas v Theophilos (No 2) (1958) 98 CLR 193 Ballas v Theophilos [1958] VR 576 Bava Holdings Pty Ltd v Pando Holdings Pty Ltd (1998) NSW ConvR para 55-862 Blackler v Felpure Pty Ltd (Supreme Court of New South Wales, unreported, Bryson J, 24 September 1999) Booker Industries Pty Ltd v Wilson Parking (Qld) Pty Ltd (1982) 149 CLR 600 Brennan v Kinjella Pty Ltd (1993) 6 BPR 13 Carter v Hyde (1923) 33 CLR 115 CASES CITED : Codelfa Construction Pty Ltd v State Rail Authority of NSW (1982) 149 CLR 337 Construction Engineering (Aust) Pty Ltd v Hexyl Pty Ltd (1984) 155 CLR 541 Drinkwater v Caddyrack Pty Ltd (Supreme Court of New South Wales, unreported, Young J, 25 September 1997) Hexyl Pty Ltd v Construction Engineering (Aust) Pty Ltd [1983] 2 NSWLR 624 Lolly Pops (Harbourside) Pty Ltd v Werncog Pty Ltd (1998) NSW ConvR para 55-861 Prudential Assurance Co Ltd v Health Minders Pty Ltd (1987) 9 NSWLR 673 Quadling v Robinson (1976) 137 CLR 192 Setena Pty Ltd v Permanent Trustee Nominees (Canberra) Ltd (Supreme Court of New South Wales, unreported, McLelland J, 28 October 1986) Tsaoucis v Gallipoli Memorial Club Limited (1998) NSW ConvR para 55-860 DECISION : Proceedings dismissed
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