NSW Caselaw
New South Wales Supreme Court
CITATION : Kelly v Kelly [2007] NSWSC 1076
HEARING DATE(S) : 25 September 2007
JUDGMENT DATE : 26 September 2007
JURISDICTION : Equity
JUDGMENT OF : Austin J
DECISION : Application for appointment of trustees on statutory trust for sale dismissed; remainder of Summons stood into Registrar's List
CATCHWORDS : REAL PROPERTY - appointment of trustees on statutory trust for sale under s 66G of the Conveyancing Act 1919 (NSW) - whether court is empowered to make order on application by beneficiary of land under an incompletely administered estate WILLS, PROBATE & ADMINISTRATION - rights of beneficiary of specific devise in incompletely administered estate - whether beneficiary has standing to seek appointment of trustees on statutory trust for sale
LEGISLATION CITED : Conveyancing Act 1919 (NSW) ss 54A, 66F, 66G Will, Probate & Administration Act 1898 (NSW) s 44
Commissioner of Stamp Duties (Queensland) v Livingston [1965] AC 694 Horton v Jones; In re Leigh's Will Trusts [[1970] Ch 277 Livingston v Commissioner of Stamp Duties (Queensland) [(1960) 107 CLR 411 CASES CITED : Lord Sudeley v Attorney-General [1897] AC 11 McCaughey v Commissioner of Stamp Duties (1945) 46 SR (NSW) 192 Official Receiver in Bankruptcy v Schultz (1990) 170 CLR 306 Re Pevsner; ex parte Trustee in Bankruptcy (1983) 68 FLR 254 Silvia v Thomson (1989) 87 ALR 695
PARTIES : Terence James Kelly (P) Maria Anne Kelly (D)
FILE NUMBER(S) : SC 3021/07
COUNSEL : B J Skinner (P) J E O'Sullivan (D)
We try to embed the page this law was scraped from. If the site blocks framing, you still get the link and a local excerpt.
Last checked with source on —
Checking whether the official page can be embedded…
Plain-English simplify of this law: a short summary, key points, and both sides of the argument. Generated on first view via Replicate, then cached. Vote on what helps your study.
No study brief is cached for this law yet. Sign up to generate a plain-English brief.
Sign up to generate