Black Uhlans Incorporated v New South Wales Crime Commission & Ors [2002] NSWSC 1060

New South Wales Supreme Court

CITATION : Black Uhlans Incorporated v New South Wales Crime Commission & Ors [2002] NSWSC 1060 revised - 10/12/2002 CURRENT JURISDICTION: Equity FILE NUMBER(S) : SC 5601/01 HEARING DATE(S) : 30/9/02-3/10/02 JUDGMENT DATE : 13 November 2002

Black Uhlans Incorporated (P) New South Wales Crime Commission (D1) PARTIES : Public Trustee of New South Wales (D2) Alan George Reardon (aka Jack Andrew Wilson) (D3) State of New South Wales (D4) JUDGMENT OF : Campbell J

J Sexton SC (P) I Temby QC; R Bromwich (D1) COUNSEL : R Bromwich (D2) No Appearance (D3) G Bartley (D4) Peter Duggan & Associates (P) New South Wales Crime Commission (D1) SOLICITORS : Public Trustee of New South Wales (D2) No appearance (D3) State Crown Solicitor's Office (D4) CATCHWORDS : TRUSTS AND TRUSTEES - existence of express trust - legal tests for recognising existence of express trust - examination of facts concerning whether express trust established - TRUSTS AND TRUSTEES - resulting trust through payment of purchase price - tests for existence of resulting trust through payment of purchase price - juristic nature of resulting trust through payment of purchase price - EQUITY - general principles and maxims of equity - unclean hands - circumstances in which equitable relief denied because of unclean hands - EVIDENCE - evidence of convictions Associations Incorporation Act 1984 Conveyancing Act 1919 Drug Trafficking (Civil Proceedings) Act 1984 LEGISLATION CITED : Drug Trafficking (Civil Proceedings) Act 1990 Evidence Act 1898 Evidence Act 1995 Legal Profession Act 1987 Argyle v Argyle [1967] 1 Ch 302 Armstrong v Sheppard & Short Ltd [1959] 2 QB 384 Atilgan v Atilgan [1999] NSWSC 324 Bloch v Bloch (1981) 180 CLR 390 Bodly v -- (1679) 2 Chan Cas 15; 22 ER 824 Brown v Brown (1993) 31 NSWLR 582 Bugg v Day (1949) 79 CLR 442 Cadman v Horner (1810) 18 Ves Jun 10; 34 ER 221 Calverley v Green (1984) 155 CLR 242 Capricorn Financial Planners Pty Ltd v Australian Securities and Investment Commission (1999) 31 ACSR Charles Marshall Pty Ltd v Grimsley (1956) 95 CLR 353 Clapham v Shillito (1844) 7 Beav 146; 49 ER 1019 Clifford v Clifford [1961] 1 WLR 1274 Commissioner of Stamp Duties (QLD) v Jolliffe (1920) 28 CLR 178 Commonwealth of Australia v Booker International Pty Ltd [2002] NSWSC 292 Cory v Gertcken (1816) 2 Madd 40; 56 ER 250 Currie v Hamilton (1984) 1 NSWLR 687 Dering v Earl of Winchelsea (1787) 1 Cox 318; 29 ER 1184 Dow Securities Pty Ltd v Manufacturing Investments Ltd (1981) 5 ACLR 501 FAI Insurances Ltd v Pioneer Concrete Services Ltd (1987) 15 NSWLR 552 Falcon v Famous Players Film Company [1926] 2 KB 474 Gascoigne v Gascoigne [1918] 1 QB 223 Glyn v Weston Feature Film Company [1916] 1 Ch 261 Goddard v Midland Railway Company (1891) 8 TLR 126 Greater Sydney Development AssociationLtd v Rivett (1929) 29 SR (NSW) 356 Griffiths v Griffiths [1973] 1 WLR 1454 Gill v Lewis [1956] 2 QB 1 Hewson v Sydney Stock Exchange Ltd [1968] 2 NSWR 224 In Re Emery's Investment Trusts (1959) Ch 410 CASES CITED : Jones v Lenthal (1669) 1 Chan Cas 154; 22 ER 739 Kettles and Gas Appliances Ltd v Anthony Hordern and Sons Ltd (1934) 35 SR (NSW) 108 Last v Rosenfeld [1972] 2 NSWLR 923 Learmonth v Morris (1868-9) 6 WW & A'B (E) 74 Little v Little (1988) 15 NSWLR 43 Littlewood v Caldwell (1822) 11 Price 97; 147 ER Litvinoff v Kent (1918) TLR 298 Loughrin v Loughrin 292 US 216 (1934) Meyers v Casey (1913) 17 CLR 90 Money v Money (No2) [1966] 1 NSWR 348 Moody v Cox [1917] 2 Ch 71 Mrs Pomeroy Ltd v Scalé (1907) 24 RPC 177 Napier v Public Trustee (Western Australia) (1980) 32 ALR 153 Nelson v Nelson (1995) 184 CLR 538 New South Wales Diary Corporation v Murray Goulbourn Co-Operative Company Limited (1990) 171 CLR 363 Nowell v Palmer (1993) 32 NSWLR 574 Overton v Banister (1844) 3 Hare 503; 67 ER 479 R v Aldridge (1990) 20 NSWLR 737 R v Deputy Commissioner of Taxation (WA) (1987) 72 ALR 365 Re Kerrigan; ex parte Jones (1946) 47 SR (NSW) 76 Rochefoucauld v Boustead [1897] 1 Ch 196 Ryan v Dries [2002] NSWCA 3 Shepherd v Cartwright [1955] AC 431 Slingsby v Bradford Patent Truck and Trolley Co [1905] WN 122; [1906] WN 51 Stephens v Avery [1988] 1 Ch 449 Tinker v Tinker [1970] P 136 Tripodi v R (1961) 104 CLR 1 Vauxhall Bridge Co v Spence (Earl) (1821) Jac 64 Vigers v Pike (1842) 8 Clark & Finnelly 562; 8 ER 220 Wall v Stubbs (1815) 1 Madd 80; 56 ER 31 Wratten v Hunter [1978] 2 NSWLR 367 DECISION : Resulting trust found for part of beneficial interest in property, see paragraph 190