Glensaugh P/L v The Registrar General [2001] NSWSC 1114

New South Wales Supreme Court

CITATION : Glensaugh P/L v The Registrar General [2001] NSWSC 1114 CURRENT JURISDICTION: Equity FILE NUMBER(S) : SC 4499/98 HEARING DATE(S) : 02/05/01, 03/05/01, 04/05/01, 11/05/01, 16/05/01 JUDGMENT DATE : 4 December 2001

PARTIES : Glensaugh Pty Limited (Plaintiff) The Registrar General (First Defendant) JUDGMENT OF : Santow J

COUNSEL : J E Armfield (Plaintiff) M J Slattery, QC/T H Barrett (Defendant) SOLICITORS : Dignan & Hanrahan (by their city agents Turner Whelan) (Plaintiff) Kenneth Charles Hall, Solicitor for the Registrar General (Defendant) CATCHWORDS : PROPERTY -- Damages claimed against Registrar General for wrongly amending Register to show reserved road -- Damages under s126 or s127 of Real Property Act -- Effect of claimed lost opportunity to sell as a golf course -- Causation issues -- Calculation of damages for loss of a chance - 10% discount -- Valuation issues -- Assessment of loss at time of deprivation. Crown Lands Act 1989 Part 3 LEGISLATION CITED : Crown Lands Regulation 1990 regulations 23(2) and (3) Real Property Act (NSW) 1900 ss126 and 127 Cirino v Registrar General (1993) 6 BPR 97452 Christopoulos v Angelos (1996) 41 NSWLR 700 The Commonwealth v Amann Aviation Pty Ltd (1991) 174 CLR 64 Fink v Fink (1946) 74 CLR 127 Ho v Powell [2001] NSWCA 168 Lakatoi Universal Pty Ltd v Walker (Einstein J, 10 March 2000, unreported) Levi v Colgate Palmolive Pty Ltd (1941) 41 SR (NSW) 48 Malec v JC Hutton Pty Ltd (1990) 169 CLR 638 CASES CITED : Mount Isa Mines Ltd v Pusey (1970) 125 CLR 383 Norris v Blake [No 2] (1997) 41 NSWLR 49 Parker v Registrar General [1977] 1 NSWLR 22 Payne v Parker [1976] 1 NSWLR 191 Poseidon Ltd and Sellars v Adelaide Petroleum NL at (1994) 179 CLR 332 Registrar-General v Behn [1980] 1 NSWLR 589 Registrar of Title (Qld) v Crowle (1947) 75 CLR 191 Spencer's Case (1583) 77 ER 72; [1588]-[1774] All ER 68 State Bank of New South Wales v Brown (2001) 38 ACSR 715 DECISION : Damages allowed (para 108).