NSW Caselaw
New South Wales Supreme Court
CITATION : Seyffer v Adamson & anor [2000] NSWSC 1219 FILE NUMBER(S) : SC 3420/00 HEARING DATE(S) : 19 October 2000 JUDGMENT DATE : 19 December 2000
Michael Alan Seyffer (Plaintiff) PARTIES : Jennifer Frances Adamson (First Defendant) Mark Ross Adamson (Second Defendant) JUDGMENT OF : Master McLaughlin
COUNSEL : P. L. G. Brereton SC and M. J. Leeming (Plaintiff) J. van Aalst (Defendants) SOLICITORS : Speed and Stracey, Commercial Lawyers (Plaintiff) Hardings Lawyers (Defendants) CATCHWORDS : Practice - Summary dismissal - Whether reasonable cause of action is disclosed - Possessory title - Asserted agreement between parties - Defendants acquire title by transfer from registered proprietor - Whether Plaintiff was a trespasser and his claim is grounded in an illegality - Effect of any such illegality upon entitlement of Plaintiff to invoke intervention by a Court of Equity - Estoppel - Feeding the estoppel - Whether equity should intervene to prevent Defendants from relying upon their strict legal rights - Possessory title can be acquired only of a whole parcle of land - Whether claim of Plaintiff is in respect to only one half of a whole parcel of land LEGISLATION CITED : Real Property Act 1900, section 45D Supreme Court Rules, Part 13 rule 5 General Steel Industries Inc. v Commissioner for Railways (1964) 112 CLR 125 United Dominions Corporation Limited v Brian Pty Limited (1985) 157 CLR 1 Banner Homes Group PLC v Luff Developments Limited [2000] 2 WLR 772 Nelson v Nelson (1995) 184 CLR 538 Holman v Johnson (1775) 1 Cowp 341; 98 ER 1120 Tinsley v Milligan (1994) 1 AC 340 CASES CITED : The Juliana (1822) 2 Dods 504; 165 ER 1560 Central London Property Trust Limited v High Trees House Limited [1974] KB 130 Legione v Hately (1983) 152 CLR 406 Verwayen v The Commonwealth (1990) 170 CLR 394 Spark v Whale Three Minute Car Wash (Cremorne Junction) Pty Limited (1970) 92 WN (NSW) 1087 Muschinski v Dodd (1985) 160 CLR 583 Guimelli v Guimelli (1999) 196 CLR 101 DECISION : See paragraph 54
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