RICHARDSON v PEDLER [2001] NSWSC 221

New South Wales Supreme Court

CITATION : RICHARDSON v PEDLER [2001] NSWSC 221 CURRENT JURISDICTION: Equity Division FILE NUMBER(S) : SC 4950/97 HEARING DATE(S) : 21-23 March 2001 JUDGMENT DATE : 30 March 2001

PARTIES : Robyn Anne Richardson v Glenn Anthony Pedler (Estate of the late Roger Kevin Pedler) JUDGMENT OF : Master Macready at 1

COUNSEL : Mr E.A. Englebrecht and Mr R.A.S. Skiller for plaintiff Mr Hallen SC and Mr G. Hodgson for defendant SOLICITORS : Mee Ling Solicitors for plaintiff Beilby Poulden for defendant CATCHWORDS : Family Provision. Claim by de facto wife. Plaintiff who had previously destroyed a will of the deceased and obtained a grant of administration. Grant set aside in earlier proceedings due to plaintiff's fraud. Whether time should be extended to allow the present claim. As the plaintiff's unconscionable conduct was the cause of the delay time should not be extended. - Landlord & Tenant. Claim for mesne profits. - Consideration of whether s 12 of the Landlord & Tenant Act 1899 was extended by virtue of Part 8 Rule 1 of the Supreme Court Rules. - Held it was not. Re Guskett (deceased) (1947) VLR 211 Massie v Laundy Young J 7.2.86 Phillips v Quinton Powell J 31.3.88 Basto v Basto Hodgson J 8.9.89 Singer v Berghouse (1994) CLR 201 CASES CITED : Goloski v Goloski CA 5.10.93 Luciano v Rosenblum (1985) 2 NSWLR 65 Elliott v Elliott CA 24.4.86 Oliveri v Oliveri Master Macready 5.3.99 Minister of State for the Interior v R.T. Co Pty Ltd (1962) 107 CLR Swain & Ors v McWhirter Master McLaughlin 29.8.96 General Mediterranean Holdings (SA) v Patel (1999) 3 All ER 673 DECISION : Paragraph 43