NSW Caselaw
New South Wales Supreme Court
CITATION : Dobson Developments v Howes & Ors [2000] NSWSC 132 CURRENT JURISDICTION: Common Law FILE NUMBER(S) : SC 11728/1999 HEARING DATE(S) : 22-23 February 2000 JUDGMENT DATE : 9 March 2000
Dobson Developments Pty Limited (Plaintiff/Cross Defendant) PARTIES : v Albert Wilson Howes (First Defendant/First Cross Claimant) & 15 ORS JUDGMENT OF : Master Malpass
Mr G Downes QC/Mr M Green (Plaintiff/Cross COUNSEL : Defendant) Ms J Needham (Defendants/Cross Claimants) SOLICITORS : Gregory J Halpin (Plaintiff/Cross Defendant) Legal Aid Commission of New South Wales (Defendants/Cross Claimants) CATCHWORDS : Statutory construction - meaning of "retirement village" and - "administering authority" - jurisdiction of the Court and of the Tribunal. Contracts Review Act 1980. Fair Trading Act 1987, s 75. Retirement Villages Act 1989, s 3, s 5, s 5A, s 14 to s 30 (incl). LEGISLATION CITED : Retirement Villages Act 1999.
Fair Trading Act of 1987/Regulation. Residential Tribunal Regulations, Regulation 30. Retirement Village Industry Code of Practice Regulation 1995, Sch 1, cl 3 Pt 1, 1, 4 and 5. Howes v Christian Enterprises Limited CASES CITED : (Cowdroy AJ, unreported 26 November 1996). Murphy v Overton Investments Pty Ltd (Court of Appeal, unreported, 3 September 1998). DECISION : See paragraphs 58 - 60.
THE SUPREME COURT OF NEW SOUTH WALES COMMON LAW DIVISION
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