Reliance Financial Services Pty Ltd v Baddock [2002] NSWSC 857

New South Wales Supreme Court

CITATION : Reliance Financial Services Pty Ltd v Baddock [2002] NSWSC 857 CURRENT JURISDICTION: Equity Division FILE NUMBER(S) : SC 3858/02 HEARING DATE(S) : 02/09/02 JUDGMENT DATE : 19 September 2002

Reliance Financial Sevices Pty Ltd (P1) Sam Peter Cassaniti (P2) PARTIES : Ronald William Ross Baddock (D1) Richard Albert Dabbs (D2) John Campbell Hawkins (D3) Inhold Pty Ltd (D4) JUDGMENT OF : Young CJ in Eq

R Parsons (P) COUNSEL : J Kelly SC and P Lowe (D1 & 2) J T Johnson (D3) T Duggan (D4) Stoikovich Banfield Macri (P) Bradfield Anderson (D1 & 2) SOLICITORS : English Kearns (D3) Abadee Dresdner & Freeman (D4)

CATCHWORDS : CONTRACT [122]- Discharge by agreement- Ambit- Difference from rescission- Difference from discharge by performance. Conveyancing Act 1919, s 37A LEGISLATION CITED : Duties Act 1997, ss 205, 211, 304 Real Property Act 1900, s 43A Baird v BCE Holdings Pty Ltd (1996) 40 NSWLR 374 Barry v Heider (1914) 19 CLR 197 Cunliffe v Harrison (1851) 6 Ex 903; 155 ER 813 CASES CITED : Dent v Moore (1919) 26 CLR 316 Knight Sugar Co Ltd v Alberta Railway & Irrigation Co [1938] 1 All ER 266 Montgomery v Continental Bags (NZ) Ltd [1972] NZLR 884 Twidale v Bradley [1990] 2 Qd R 464 West v Read (1913) 13 SR (NSW) 575 DECISION : See paras 47-52.