NSW Caselaw
New South Wales Supreme Court
CITATION : Commonwealth of Australia v Booker International Pty Ltd [2002] NSWSC 292 revised - 5/07/2002 CURRENT JURISDICTION: Equity FILE NUMBER(S) : SC 4960/98 HEARING DATE(S) : 04/04/02, 05/04/02 JUDGMENT DATE : 12 April 2002
PARTIES : Commonwealth of Australia (plaintiff) Booker International Pty Limited (defendant) JUDGMENT OF : Campbell J
COUNSEL : Ronald Webb (plaintiff) Andrew Bell, Jeremy Kirk (defendant) SOLICITORS : Australian Government Solicitor (plaintiff) Eakin McCaffery Cox (defendant) CATCHWORDS : TRUSTS AND TRUSTEES - intention to create a trust - when intention to be inferred - TRUSTS AND TRUSTEES - intention to create a trust - concerning commercial arrangements - TRUSTS AND TRUSTEES - construction of particular contract - TRUSTS AND TRUSTEES - right of beneficiary to recover in personam, from recipient of trust property - when recipient of trust property gives consideration - first limb of Barnes v Addy Trustee Act 1925 (NSW) LEGISLATION CITED : Trusts Act 1973 (Qld) Trustee Act 1958 (Vic) Hardoon v Belilios [1901] AC 118 Black v S Freedman & Co (1920) 12 CLR 105 Lipkin Gorman v Karpnale Ltd [1991] 2 AC 548 Barclays Bank Ltd v W J Simms Son & Cooke (Southern) Ltd [1980] QB 677 David Securities Pty Ltd v Commonwealth Bank of Australia (1992) 175 CLR 353 City Bank of Sydney v McLaughlin (1909) 9 CLR 615 Barnes v Addy (1874) LR Ch App 244 Baden Delvaux v Sociéte Generale [1993] 1 WLR 509 Koorootang Nominees Pty Ltd v Australia & New Zealand Banking Group Ltd [1998] 3 VR 16 Barclays Bank Ltd v Quistclose Investments Ltd [1970] AC 567 Bahr v Nicolay [No2] (1988) 164 CLR 604 CASES CITED : Trident General Insurance Co Ltd v McNiece Bros Pty Ltd (1988) 165 CLR 107 Daly v Sydney Stock Exchange Ltd (1986) 160 CLR 371 Walker v Corboy (1990) 19 NSWLR 382 Henry v Hammond [1913] 2 KB 515 Hospital Products Ltd v United States Surgical Corporation (1984) 156 CLR 41 Jessup v Queensland Housing Commission [2001] QCA 312 Davies v Australian Securities Commission (1995) 59 FCR 221 Occidental Life Insurance Company of Australia Ltd v Bank of Melbourne (1993) 7 ANZ Insurances Cases 78,310 In Re: Hallett's Estate 13 Ch D 696, at 708 In Re Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust (1991) 30 FCR 491 DECISION : Trust not established
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