Stockland (Constructors) Pty Ltd v Allan Richard Carriage [2002] NSWSC 1179

Reported Decision : 123 LGERA 289 (2003) 56 NSWLR 636

New South Wales Supreme Court

CITATION : Stockland (Constructors) Pty Ltd v Allan Richard Carriage [2002] NSWSC 1179 CURRENT JURISDICTION: Equity Division FILE NUMBER(S) : SC 5513/02 HEARING DATE(S) : 3 and 4 December 2002 JUDGMENT DATE : 11 December 2002

PARTIES : Stockland (Constructors) Pty Ltd (Plaintiff) Allan Richard Carriage (Defendant) JUDGMENT OF : Bergin J

COUNSEL : RS McColl SC leading PM Lane (Plaintiff) A Oshlack (By Leave) (Defendant) SOLICITORS : Baker & McKenzie (Plaintiff) A Oshlack (By Leave) (Defendant) CATCHWORDS : [CAVEATS] - Application by plaintiff under s 74MA of the Real Property Act 1900 (NSW) for removal of caveat - Whether the defendant has a caveatable interest by reason of provisions of the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1967 (the 1967 Act) and/or the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1974 (the 1974 Act) - Whether the defendant has an equitable interest in the land by reason of statutory discretion in Director General to transfer relics to Aboriginal owners. [STATUTES] - Construction of s 33D of the 1967 Act and s 83 of the 1974 Act - Meaning of "originally real property" in s 33D(2) of the 1967 Act. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage Protection Act 1984 (Cth) Aboriginal Land Rights Act 1983 (NSW) Conveyancing Act 1919 (NSW) Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 (NSW) LEGISLATION CITED : National Parks and Wildlife Act 1967 (NSW) National Parks and Wildlife (Amendment) Act 1969 (NSW) National Parks and Wildlife Act 1974 (NSW) Racial Discrimination Act 1975 (Cth) Real Property Act 1900 (NSW) Allred v Biegel 219 SW 2d 665 (1949) Carriage v Stockland (Constructors) Pty Ltd and Anor (No 2) [2002] NSWLEC 121 Carriage v Stockland (Constructors) Pty Ltd and Ors [2002] NSWLEC 216 Composite Buyers Ltd v Soong and Anor (1995) 38 NSWLR 286 Elwes v Briggs Gas Company (1886) 33 Ch D 562 Eng Mee Yong and Ors v V. Letchumanan s/o Velayuthan [1980] AC 331 CASES CITED : Fejo and Anor v Northern Territory of Australia and Anor (1998) 195 CLR 96 Flack v Chairperson, National Crime Authority and Anor (1997) 150 ALR 153 Ranger v Griffin (1968) 87 WN (Pt 1) (NSW) 531 Waverley Borough Council v Fletcher (1995) QB 334 Wilson v Anderson (2002) 190 ALR 313 Williams v Director General of the National Parks and Wildlife Service and Ors [2002] NSWCA 176 [Professor Peter Butt, Land Law, (4th Ed), Lawbook Co Ltd, 2001. Sir Frederick Pollock and Robert Samuel Wright, An Essay on Possession in the Common Law, Law Press, 1990.] DECISION : Orders made for removal of caveat.