Hunter Region SLSA Helicopter Rescue Service Ltd v Attorney General for NSW [2000] NSWSC 456

New South Wales Supreme Court

CITATION : Hunter Region SLSA Helicopter Rescue Service Ltd v Attorney General for NSW [2000] NSWSC 456 CURRENT JURISDICTION: Equity FILE NUMBER(S) : SC 2429/00; 4532/93; 1052/94 HEARING DATE(S) : 15 and 22 May 2000 JUDGMENT DATE : 22 May 2000

2429/00 Hunter Region SLSA Helicopter Rescue Service Limited (P) The Attorney General in and for the State of New South Wales (D) 4532/93 The Returned and Services League of Australia (NSW Branch) (P1) PARTIES : Geoff Godfrey, Eugene Priest, Alexander Leslie Baker, John Thomas Walter Sheehan being Trustees of the New South Wales State Branch of the RSL Welfare and Benevolent Fund (P2) Attorney General of New South Wales (D) 1052/94 Attorney General of New South Wales (P) The Returned and Services League of Australia (NSW Branch) (D1) Geoff Godfrey, Eugene Priest, Alexander Leslie Baker, John Thomas Walter Sheehan being Trustees of the New South Wales State Branch of the RSL Welfare and Benevolent Fund (D2) JUDGMENT OF : Hamilton J

2429/00 R A Conti QC (P) R W Barlow, Solicitor (D) 4532/93 COUNSEL : No appearance (P1 & 2) R W Barlow, Solicitor (D) 1052/94 R W Barlow, Solicitor (P) No appearance (P1 & 2) 2429/00 Sparke Helmore (P) I V Knight, Crown Solicitor (D) 4532/93 SOLICITORS : Abbott Tout (P1 & 2) I V Knight, Crown Solicitor (D) 1052/94 I V Knight, Crown Solicitor (P) Abbott Tout (D1 & 2) CATCHWORDS : CHARITIES [33] - Administration and control by Court - Generally - Settlement of schemes - General principles - Administrative schemes - Variation of schemes - Cy-pres schemes. 43 Eliz I c4 (1601) Charities Procedure Act 1812 (Imp) LEGISLATION CITED : Australian Courts Act 1828 (Imp) Imperial Acts Application Act 1969 s 17 Charitable Trusts Act 1993 A-G v St John's Hospital, Bath (1865) LR 1 Ch App 92 A-G v The Bishop of Worcester (1851) 9 Hare 328; 68 ER 530 Baldry v Feintuck [1972] 1 WLR 552 In re Gott. Glazebrook v University of Leeds [1944] Ch 193 In re Ingram [1951] VLR 424 at 430 In re Pieper, deceased; The Trustees Executors and Agency Co Ltd v Attorney-General (Vic) [1951] VLR 42 In re Queen's School, Chester [1910] 1 Ch 796 In re Robinson. Besant v The German Reich [1931] 2 Ch 122 CASES CITED : In the Estate of Bower, Deceased (1980) 25 SASR 161 Kytherian Association of Queensland v Sklavos (1958) 101 CLR 56 Royal North Shore Hospital of Sydney v The Attorney General for New South Wales (1938) 60 CLR 396 The Diocesan Trustees of the Church of England in Western Australia v The Solicitor-General (1909) 9 CLR 757 Verge v Somerville [1924] AC 496 4 Halsbury's Laws of Australia tit Charities [75-645] Jacobs' Law of Trusts in Australia (6th ed, 1997) [1078] Sheridan and Delany, The Cy-Pres Doctrine (1959) 16 - 17, 140 - 142 IVA Scott on Trusts (4th ed, 1989) s 367.2 Tudor on Charities (8th ed, 1995) 446 - 447 DECISION : 2429/00 - Variation of scheme approved; 4532/93 and 1052/94 - Cy-pres scheme approved.