NSW Caselaw
New South Wales Supreme Court
CITATION : RUSH v KEOGH [2000] NSWSC 624 CURRENT JURISDICTION: Equity Division FILE NUMBER(S) : SC 1451/1999 HEARING DATE(S) : 06/06/2000 JUDGMENT DATE : 31 October 2000
PARTIES : DENNIS DONALD RUSH v RAYMOND IGNATIUS STEWART KEOGH - ESTATE OF VICTOR RICHARD BREWER JUDGMENT OF : Master Macready at 1
COUNSEL : Mr W. Hodgekiss (P) Mr D. Russell (D) SOLICITORS : Symonds & Company (P) Thorntons Solicitors (D) CATCHWORDS : Equity - Constructive trust - life tenant paying principal and interest due under mortgage on property subject to life estate. Principles upon which the remedy of constructive trust will be applied. Whether it is necessary to have a triggering mechanism or merely to fall within the rubric of unconscionable conduct. Finding of constructive trust as to 45% of the subject property. Green v Green (1989) 17 NSWLR 343 Hepworth v Hepworth (1963) 110 CLR 309 Bryson v Bryant (1992) 29 NSWLR 188 Muschinski v Dodds (1985) 160 CLR 583 Baumgartner v Baumgartner (1987) 164 CLR 137 CASES CITED : Hospital Products Ltd v United States Surgical Corporation (1984) 156 CLR 41 Beatty v Guggenheim Exploration Co (1919) 225 NY Stephenson Nominess Pty Ltd v Official Receiver (1987) 16 FCR 536 Collins v Kerry, Bryson J 13 September 1989 Walker v McClelland Young J 24 June 1988 Carson v Wood (1994) 34 NSWLR 9 "The Remedial Constructive Trust" by David M. Wright 1998. DECISION : Paragraphs 46 and 47
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