BBK Development Corporation v Luedi [2004] NSWSC 622

New South Wales Supreme Court

CITATION : BBK Development Corporation v Luedi [2004] NSWSC 622 HEARING DATE(S) : 31/5/04 - 1/6/04 JUDGMENT DATE : 23 July 2004 JURISDICTION: Equity JUDGMENT OF : Campbell J DECISION : Vendor elected to keep contract on foot. Specific performance ordered.

CATCHWORDS : CONVEYANCING - RELATIONSHIP OF VENDOR AND PURCHASER - contractual right to rescission arises through non-registration of plan of subdivision - whether vendor elected to keep contract on foot after right of rescission arose LEGISLATION CITED : Conveyancing Act 1919 Re Action Waste Collections Pty Ltd (in liq); Crawford v O'Brien (1981) 5 ACLR 673 Belmont Finance Corporation Ltd v Williams Furniture Ltd [1979] Ch 250 Cave v Cave (1880) 15 Ch D 639 Dillon v Gange (1941) 64 CLR 253 Re Hampshire Land Co [1896] 2 Ch 743 CASES CITED : Immer (No 145) Pty Ltd v Uniting Church in Australia Property Trust (NSW) (1993) 182 CLR 26 JC Houghton & Co Pty Ltd v Nothard, Lowe & Wills Ltd [1928] AC 1 Re Marseilles Extension Railway Company; Ex parte Credit Foncier and Mobilier of England (1871) 7 LR Ch App 161 Newsholme Brothers v Road Transport & General Insurance Co [1929] 2 KB 356 Sargent v ASL Developments Ltd (1974) 131 CLR 634 Zucker v Straightlace Pty Ltd (1986) 11 NSWLR 87 Secured Income Real Estate (Australia) Limited v St Martins Investments Pty Ltd (1979) 144 CLR 596 PARTIES : BBK Development Corporation Pty Limited - Plaintiff Marcus Luedi as Executor of the Estate of the Late John Lehman - Defendant FILE NUMBER(S) : SC 2234/04 COUNSEL : B Coles QC; D Pritchard - Plaintiff P W Taylor SC; P Blackburn-Hart - Defendant SOLICITORS : Fishburn Watson O'Brien - Plaintiff MBT Lawyers - Defendant