Gray v Guardian Trust Australia [2002] NSWSC 1218

New South Wales Supreme Court

CITATION : Gray v Guardian Trust Australia [2002] NSWSC 1218 CURRENT JURISDICTION: Equity Division Probate List FILE NUMBER(S) : SC 114938/99 HEARING DATE(S) : 13 & 14 August 2002 JUDGMENT DATE : 18 December 2002

Rollo Ventry Wakefield Gray (P, XD1) PARTIES : Guardian Trust Australia Ltd (D1, XC) Robert John Charles Gray (D2, XD2) JUDGMENT OF : Austin J

Mr D Officer QC with Ms P Lane (P, XD1) COUNSEL : Mr M S Willmott (D1, XC) Mr T Lynch (D2, XD2) Teece Hodgson & Ward (P, XD1) SOLICITORS : Mallesons Stephen Jaques (D1, XC) Gells (D2, XD2) CATCHWORDS : WILLS - payments by testatrix for benefit of one of her two sons - whether the payments were loans or gifts or family arrangements - whether loans subject to rule in Cherry v Boultbee - application of rule in respect of statute-barred debts and interest Australian Broadcasting Corporation v XIVth Commonwealth Games (1988) 18 NSWLR 540 Balfour v Balfour [1919] 2 KB 571 Bickerdike v Hill (No 2) [1919] VLR 62 Calverley v Green (1984) 155 CLR 242 Cherry v Boultbee (1839) 4 My & Cr 442 Cook v Fowler (1874) LR 7 HL 27 Dyke v Dyke [1998] VSC 211 Herskope v Perpetual Trustees (WA) Ltd [2002] NSWSC 153 Hungerford v Walker (1988) 171 CLR 125 CASES CITED : Jones v Padavatton [1969] 2 All ER 616 Lai v Gong (1997) 8 BPR 15,837 Lewis v Cook (2000) 18 ACLC 490 Nelson v Nelson (1995) 184 CLR 501 Nixon v Furphy (1926) SR (NSW) 409 Re Abrahams; Abrahams v Abrahams [1908] 2 Ch 69 Re Akerman [1891] 3 Ch 212 Re Akerman; Re Abrahams; Re Bickerdike [1919] VR 62 Re Peruvian Railway Construction Co Ltd [1915] 2 Ch 144 Re Wheeler; Hankinson v Hayter [1904] 2 Ch 66 Shephard v Cartwright [1955] AC 431 DECISION : See under heading "Conclusions"