NSW Caselaw
New South Wales Supreme Court
CITATION : Jiwunda & Anor v. Trustees of the Travel Compensation Fund [2006] NSWSC 741
HEARING DATE(S) : 27 to 30 June 2006
JUDGMENT DATE : 24 July 2006
JURISDICTION : Equity Division
JUDGMENT OF : Palmer J
DECISION : Plaintiffs entitled to declarations and damages as sought.
CATCHWORDS : REAL PROPERTY – LEASE – OPTION – OFFER AND ACCEPTANCE – Whether oral agreement to extend option to renew lease had been made – whether agreement resulted in an offer and acceptance of new lease – whether offer and acceptance analysis appropriate. - AGENCY – OSTENSIBLE AUTHORITY – Whether CEO had ostensible authority to accept offer of new lease. - STATUTE OF FRAUDS – "THEREUNTO LAWFULLY AUTHORISED" – Whether authority of agent to sign Memorandum of Agreement required by s.54A Conveyancing Act must be actual authority or may be ostensible authority. - DAMAGES – MITIGATION – Whether Plaintiffs had failed to take reasonable steps to mitigate losses.
LEGISLATION CITED : Conveyancing Act 1919 (NSW) – s.54A
- Brambles Holdings Ltd v Bathurst City Council (2001) 53 NSWLR 153 - British Westinghouse Electric Company Ltd v Underground Electric Railways Company Ltd [1912] AC 673 - Denton v Great Northern Railway Co (1856) 5 E&B 860; 119 ER 701 - Empirnall Holdings Pty Ltd v Machon Paull Partners Pty Ltd (1988) 14 NSWLR 523 - Freeman & Lockyer v Buckhurst Park Properties (Mangal) Ltd [1964] 2 QB 480 - Integrated Computer Services Pty Ltd v Digital Equipment Corp (Aust) Pty Ltd (1988) 5 BPR 11,110 CASES CITED : - Jones v Dunkel (1959) 101 CLR 298 - McCaul (Aust) Pty Ltd, Gilbert J. v Pitt Club Ltd (1957) 59 SR(NSW) 122 - Maclean v Dunn (1828) 4 Bing 722; 130 ER 947 - New Zealand Shipping Co Ltd v A.M. Satterthwaite & Co Ltd [1975] AC 154 - Paull v Williams [2006] ANZ ConvR 132 - Wilkie v London Passenger Transport Board [1947] 1 All ER 258 Bowstead on Agency (17th Ed), Art. 74 "The Statue of Frauds, Section IV", James Williams, Cambridge University Press (1932), 102
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