NSW Caselaw
New South Wales Supreme Court
CITATION : Rawack v Spicer [2002] NSWSC 849 CURRENT JURISDICTION: Equity FILE NUMBER(S) : SC 4461/01 HEARING DATE(S) : 27/8/02; 10/9/02 JUDGMENT DATE : 20 September 2002
Michael Kenneth Rawack (Plaintiff/First Cross-Defendant) Wallace Spicer (First Defendant/Cross-Claimant) Ruth Deckert (Second Defendant/Second Cross-Defendant) PARTIES : Salvation Army (Third Defendant) Heart Foundation of Australia (NSW) Division (Fourth Defendant) NSW Jewish Joint Communal Appeal (Fifth Defendant) The Sydney Jewish Centre on Aging Inc (Sixth Defendant) Viola Spicer (Seventh Defendant/Third Cross-Defendant) JUDGMENT OF : Campbell J
A Lakeman (Plaintiff/First Cross-Defendant) COUNSEL : P Blackburn-Hart (First Defendant/Cross-Claimant) R Neal (Seventh Defendant/Third Cross-Defendant) Michael K Rawack & Co (Plaintiff/First Cross-Defendant) SOLICITORS : Turtons (First Defendant/Cross-Claimant) Teece, Hodgson & Ward (Seventh Defendant/Third Cross-Defendant) CATCHWORDS : SUCCESSION - WILLS PROBATE AND ADMINISTRATION - construction and effect of testamentary dispositions - construction of particular Will - SUCCESSION - WILLS PROBATE AND ADMINISTRATION - rectification of Will under section 29A Wills, Probate and Administration Act 1898 - principles for effecting rectification - EVIDENCE - standard of proof - s140 Evidence Act 1995 - claim for rectification of Will LEGISLATION CITED : Evidence Act 1995 Wills, Probate and Administration Act 1898 Application Spooner; Estate J J Davis (Hodgson J, 28 July 1995 unreported) Huszar (Re Estate of) [1999] NSWSC 388 The Estate of Cecil Douglas Brisbane (Powell J, 19 June 1992 unreported) Estate of Cross (McLelland CJ in Eq, 9 May 1996, unreported) CASES CITED : Estate of Mina Spinks, Application of Morten Brian William Mortensen and Elizabeth Gedge Eassie v State of New South Wales (NSWCA, 12 December 1991, unreported) Nagle v Lavender [2002] NSWSC 611 Re Estate of Max Frederick Dippert [2001] NSWSC 167 Trimmer v Lax (Hodgson J, 9 May 1997, unreported) Wesley v Wesley (1998) 71 SASR 1 DECISION : Will construed; Will rectified - see paragraph 58
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