NSW Caselaw
Reported Decision : 63 NSWLR 602
New South Wales Court of Appeal
CITATION: JABETIN PTY LTD v LIQUOR ADMINISTRATON BOARD & ORS; JABETIN PTY LTD v BENWINE PTY LTD [2005] NSWCA 92
HEARING DATE(S): 23 February 2005
JUDGMENT DATE: 1 April 2005
JUDGMENT OF: Mason P at 1; Sheller JA at 89; Hodgson JA at 90
DECISION: No. CA 40971/04- dismissed with costs; No. CA 40972/04 - Appeal upheld.
CATCHWORDS: PROPERTY LAW - EQUITY - Liquor Administration Board - poker machine entitlements - hotelier's licence - lease of hotel premises - poker machine freeze - transfer of hotelier's licence - whether transfer of poker machine entitlements requires support of the lessor - whether the lessor has a financial interest in the hotelier's licence - s19 Gaming Machines Act 2001 - statutory interpretation - whether definition of "financial interest" in s19(5) is exhaustive - relationship between s19(5) and s19(3)(c) - Liquor Act 1982 - equitable/beneficial interests in poker machine entitlements on termination of the Lease - constructive trust - resulting trust - unconscionability - whether poker machine entitlements may become detached from a licence. (D)
Gaming Machines Act 2001 LEGISLATION CITED: Liquor Act 1982
Ex parte Berry; Re Kessell (1936) 36 SR(NSW) 485 Bruce v Cole (1998) 45 NSWLR 163 Buck v Bavone (1976) CLR 110 Butts v O'Dwyer (1952) 87 CLR 267 Calverley v Green (1984) 155 CLR 242 Esso Australia Resources Ltd v Commissioner of Taxation (1998) 84 FCR 541 Halwood Corporation Ltd v Chief Commissioner of Stamp Duties (1994) 33 NSWLR 395 In re Vandervell's Trusts (No 2) [1974] Ch 296 Inglis v Federal Commissioner of Taxation (1979) 40 FLR 191 CASES CITED: McWilliam v McWilliams Wines Pty Ltd (1964) 114 CLR 656 Miller v Commissioner of Police [2004] NSWCA 356 Napier v Public Trustee (WA) (1980) 32 ALR 153 Queen v Toohey: Ex parte Meneling Station Pty Ltd (1982) 158 CLR 327 Sims and Singleton as Liquidators of Enron Australia Pty Ltd v TXU Electricity Ltd & Anor [2005] NSWCA 12 Slatter v Railway Commissioners (NSW) (1931) 45 CLR 68 Tanwer Enterprises Pty Ltd v Cauchi (2003) 77 ALJR 1853 Tooheys Limited v Housing Commission of New South Wales (1953) 53 SR 407 Wonall Pty Ltd v Clarins Property Corporation Ltd (2003) 58 NSWLR 23
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