Urquhart v Lanham [2002] NSWSC 119

Reported Decision : (2003) NSW ConvR 56-027

New South Wales Supreme Court

CITATION : Urquhart v Lanham [2002] NSWSC 119 CURRENT JURISDICTION: Equity Division FILE NUMBER(S) : SC 2648/01 HEARING DATE(S) : 19 February 2002 JUDGMENT DATE : 5 March 2002

Alison Mary Urquhart (P1) Andrew Roderick Urquhart (P2) PARTIES : Heather Margaret Lanham (D1) National Australia Bank Ltd (D2) William Arthur Angliss (D3) JUDGMENT OF : Young CJ in Eq

P Hallen SC and R Angyal (P) COUNSEL : P H Blackburn-Hart (D1) S D Rares SC and M A Gilmour (D3) Whittens (P) SOLICITORS : Hunt Partners (D1) Deacons (D3) CATCHWORDS : CONTRACT [158][204]- Agency- Power of attorney- Attorney must sue in donor's name- Donee is not authorised to sue donor. MENTAL HEALTH [3]- Appointment of manager- Defendant outside NSW- Jurisdiction- Discretion. PROCEDURE [747]- Declaration- Utility- Agents seeking declaration they are third defendant's attorneys under power rather than first defendant. LEGISLATION CITED : Conveyancing Act 1919, s 159 Protected Estates Act 1983, s 13 Angliss v Urquhart [2001] NSWCA 441 Bective (Countesss) v Commissioner of Taxation (1932) 47 CLR 417 Campbell v Pye (1954) 54 SR (NSW) 308 Gibbons v Wright (1954) 91 CLR 423 Gray v Pearson (1870) LR 5 CP 568 Hargreaves v Dukes [1931] NZLR 1143 Hunter v Chief Constable of West Midlands Police [1982] AC 529 Jackamarra v Krakouer (1998) 195 CLR 516 CASES CITED : Jones v Gurney [1913] WN (Eng) 72 MS v ES [1983] 3 NSWLR 199 Mikaelian v CSIRO (1999) 163 ALR 172 Perpetual Trustee Co Ltd v Attorney-General (1937) 54 WN (NSW) 95 Re R [2000] NSWSC 886 Ranclaud v Cabban (1988) NSW Conv R 55-385 Rosenthal v The Sir Moses Montefiore Jewish Home (Young J, 26.5.1995) Spellson v George (1987) 11 NSWLR 300 Walton v Gardiner (1993) 177 CLR 378 DECISION : See para 50.