Public Trustee v Attorney General & Ors [2005] NSWSC 1267

New South Wales Supreme Court

CITATION : Public Trustee v Attorney General & Ors [2005] NSWSC 1267

HEARING DATE(S) : In Chambers

JUDGMENT DATE : 7 December 2005

JUDGMENT OF : Gzell J

DECISION : Leave to bring proceedings granted. No misdescription. The Charitable Trusts Act 1993, s 9(1) inapplicable. Declaration that gifts did not lapse, the will contained gifts for charitable purposes and displayed a general charitable intention. Schemes cy-pres settled.

CATCHWORDS : CHARITIES - Charitable Gifts and Trusts - Gift of residue by will to a charitable institution and two non-existent institutions, the Cancer Hospital in Sydney and the Tuberculosis Hospital in Sydney - Whether leave to bring the proceedings should be granted under the Charitable Trusts Act 1993, s 6(2A) - Whether the first gift a misdescription of the New South Wales State Cancer Council benefited by a legacy in an earlier will - Whether the will displayed a particular charitable intentions and the gifts lapsed or a general charitable intention to be administered by scheme cy-pres - Whether the Charitable Trust Act 1993, s 9(1) applies to gifts to non-existent institutions - Whether schemes cy-pres should be settled

Statue of Charitable Uses 1601 (UK) Charitable Trusts Act 1993 LEGISLATION CITED : Health Services Act 1997 Health Services Regulation 2003

Public Trustee v Permanent Trustee Co Ltd [1999] NSWSC 722 Public Trustee v Permanent Trustee Co Ltd [2003] NSWSC 556 Re Carmichael (1936) St R Qd 196 at 209 Re Pettit [1988] 2 NZLR 513 In re Ovey; Broadbent v Barrow (1885) 29 Ch D 560 CASES CITED : Royal North Shore Hospital of Sydney v Attorney General (1938) 60 CLR 396 Attorney General (New South Wales) v Perpetual Trustee Co Ltd (1940) 63 CLR 209 Re Davis; Hannen v Hillyer [1902] 1 Ch 876 In re Resch's Will Trusts [1969] 1 AC 514 Dal Pont, Charity Law in Australia and New Zealand, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 2000