Anderson Stuart & Ors v Treleaven & 1 Ors [2000] NSWSC 283

Reported Decision : [2000] 49 NSWLR 88

New South Wales Supreme Court

CITATION : Anderson Stuart & Ors v Treleaven & 1 Ors [2000] NSWSC 283 revised - 8/05/2000 CURRENT JURISDICTION: Equity FILE NUMBER(S) : SC 1375/99 HEARING DATE(S) : 09/02/00, 10/02/00 JUDGMENT DATE : 14 April 2000

Peter Primrose Anderson Stuart and Colina Ann Anderson Stuart and Anderson Stuart Estates Pty Limited (Plaintiffs) PARTIES : Ian G and Andrea M Treleaven (First Defendants) The Proprietors - Strata Plan No. 10294 (Second Defendants) JUDGMENT OF : Santow J

COUNSEL : M D Young (Plaintiffs) A Bouris (Solicitor) (Defendants) SOLICITORS : Blessington Judd (Plaintiffs) Mallesons Stephen Jaques (Defendants) CATCHWORDS : PROPERTY — Case Stated under s101 of Justices Act 1902 (NSW) from order of Strata Titles Board allocating unit entitlements in waterfront block of units purportedly pursuant to s119 of Strata Titles Act 1973 (NSW) — Powers of Supreme Court limited to errors of laws — Scope of — Meaning of "having regard to respective values of the lots" in s119(2) — Relevance of principles of valuation from Spencer's case and legitimacy of glossing these — No estoppel — Error of law in taking two valuations which Board considered unsatisfactory and taking mean — Other errors of law — Board expressing provisional view invites submissions but then disregards them on ground was functus — Breach of natural justice — Should application be dismissed where valuation evidence insufficient. - WORDS AND PHRASES — "respective values". LEGISLATION CITED : Justices Act 1902 (NSW), s106 Strata Titles Act 1973 (NSW), s119, s130 Allen v Kerr and Anor (SCNSW Court of Appeal, Clarke, Meagher and Powell JJA, 7 August 1995, unreported) The Australian Gas Light Co v The Valuer General (1940) 40 SR(NSW) 126 Autodesk Inc. v Dyason (No. 2) (1993) 176 CLR 300 Azzopardi v Tasman UEB Industries Limited (!985) 4 NSWLR 139 Bingham v Cumberland County Council (1954) 20 LGR (NSW) 1 Boland v Yates Property Corporation Pty Limited (1999) 167 ALR 575 Comcare Australia v Lees (1997) 151 ALR 647 Crompton v Commissioner of Highways (1973) 32 LGRA 8 Dixon v City of Glenorchy (1978) 15 LGRA 407 Harris v Minister for Public Works (1912) 12 SR(NW) 149 Hope v Bathurst City Council (1980) 144 CLR 1 Humphryis v Spence [1920] VLR 407 Kahler and Anor v Sabaco Pty Limited, (NSWSC, Master Malpass, 6 February 1997, unreported) Leichardt Municipal Council v Seatainer Terminals Pty Limited & Glebe Island Terminals Pty Limited (1981) 48 LGRA 409 Lombardo v Federal Commissioner of Taxation (1979) 28 ALR 574 McPhee v S Bennet Limited (1935) 52 WN(NSW) 8 Marshall v Whittaker's Building Supply Co (1963) 109 CLR 210 Mersey Docks and Harbour Borad v Birkenhead Assessment Committee [1901] AC 175 T A Miller Limited v Minister of Housing and Local Government [1968] 2 All ER 633 Minister of State for the Navy v Rae (1945) 70 CLR 339 CASES CITED : Misfud v Campbell (1991) 21 NSWLR 725 Mobil Oil Canada Limited v Canada Newfoundland Offshore Petroleum Board (1994) 11 DLR(4th) 1 New South Wales Associated Blue Metal Quarries Limited v Federal Commissioner of Taxation (1956) 94 CLR 509 Pettitt v Dunkeley [1971] 1 NSWLR 376 Public Service Board of New South Wales v Osmond (1986) 159 CLR 656 Raja Vyricherla Narayana Gajapatiraju v Revenue Divisional Officer, Visagapatam ("the Raja's Case") (1939) AC 302 R v Hunt; Ex parte Sean Investments Pty Limited ("Sean Investments") (1979) 180 CLR 322 R v Chief Constable of the Thames Valley Police; Ex parte Cotton [1979] 77 LGR 689 R v Rigby (1956) 100 CLR 146 Sangster v Henry (1920) 37 WN(NSW) 135 Re Saunders [1993] 2 Qd 335 Ex parte Sharah; Re Cox; Potato Marketing Board v Sharah (1956) 73 WN(NSW) 283 Spencer v the Commonwealth (1907) 5 CLR 418 Stead v State Government Insurance Commission (1986) 161 CLR 141 Sun Alliance Insurance Limited v Massoud [1989] VR 8 Thompson v Palmer (1933) 49 CLR 507 Waltons Stores (Interstate) Limited v Maher (1988) 164 CLR 387 Wentworth v Wentworth (Santow J, [1999] NSWSC 638, 29 June 1999, unreported) Western Australian Trustees Limited v Poon (1991) 6 WAR 72 Woolf v City of Camberwell [1931] VLR 162 Xuereb v Viola (1989) 18 NSWLR 453 DECISION : Errors of law requiring board's decision to be remitted to it for reconsideration.