Metropolitan Petar & Ors v Mitreski & Ors [2001] NSWSC 976

New South Wales Supreme Court

CITATION : Metropolitan Petar & Ors v Mitreski & Ors [2001] NSWSC 976 CURRENT JURISDICTION: Equity FILE NUMBER(S) : SC 3369/97 HEARING DATE(S) : 9 August 2001 JUDGMENT DATE : 31 October 2001

His Grace Metropolitan Petar, the Diocesan Bishop of the Macedonian Orthodox Diocese of Australia and New Zealand (P1) The Very Reverend Father Mitko Mitrev (P2) Lambe Mitrevski (D1) Pero Damceski (D2) PARTIES : Boris Minovski (D3) Eftim Eftimov (D4) Mile Marcevski (D5) Macedonian Orthodox Community Church St Petka Incorporated (D6) Naum Despotovski (D8) JUDGMENT OF : Hamilton J

COUNSEL : T G R Parker (P1 & 2) M J Heath (D1 - 6, 8) SOLICITORS : Sachs Gerace Lawyers (P1 & 2) McConnell Jaffray (D1 - 6, 8) CATCHWORDS : CHARITIES [140], [143], [146] - Administration and control by Court - Parties - Attorney General - When necessary or proper party - When not necessary or proper party - Other parties - Rights - To bring proceedings. Associations Incorporation Act 1984 Charities Procedure Act 1812 52 Geo III c 101 Charitable Trusts Act 1853 16 & 17 Vic c 137 ss 17, 43 LEGISLATION CITED : Charities Act 1960 (UK) s 28 Charities Act 1993 (UK) s 33 Charitable Trusts Act 1993 ss 5, 6 Imperial Acts Application Act 1969 s 17 Bathurst City Council v PWC Properties Pty Limited (1998) 195 CLR 566 Braund v Earl of Devon (1868) LR 3 Ch App 800 In re Hampton Fuel Allotment Charity [1989] Ch 484 Lang v Purves (1862) 15 Moo PC 389; 15 ER 541; 1 SCR (NSW) App 4 Metropolitan Petar v Mitreski [2001] NSWSC 414 Radmanovich v Nedeljkovic [2001] NSWSC 492 The Solicitor-General v Wylde (1945) 46 SR (NSW) 83 Uniting Church in Australia Property Trust (NSW) v Monsen [1978] 1 NSWLR 575 CASES CITED : Ware v Cumberledge (1855) 20 Beav 503; 52 ER 697 Wylde v Attorney-General for New South Wales (at the relation of Ashelford) (1948) 78 CLR 224 5(2) Halsbury's Laws of England (4th Ed, 2001 Reissue) tit Charities par 516 IVA Scott on Trusts (4th Ed, 1989) s 391 Jacobs' Law of Trusts in Australia (6th Ed, 1997) [1067] Jordan, Chapters in Equity in New South Wales (6th Ed, 1947) 47 Parker's Practice in Equity (New South Wales (2nd Ed, 1949) 425 Picarda, The Law and Practice Relating to Charities (2nd Ed, 1995) 652 Story on Equity Jurisprudence (3rd English Ed, 1920) ss 1190, 1191 Tudor on Charities (8th Ed, 1995) ("Tudor") 338 - 369 DECISION : Suit not properly constituted. Statement of claim liable to be struck out.