Dueeasy Pty Ltd v D & M Hughes Civil Engineering Pty Ltd (in liq) [2006] NSWSC 333

New South Wales Supreme Court

CITATION : Dueeasy Pty Ltd v D & M Hughes Civil Engineering Pty Ltd (in liq) [2006] NSWSC 333

HEARING DATE(S) : 13-17 March, 19 April 2006

JUDGMENT DATE : 28 April 2006

JURISDICTION : Equity Division

JUDGMENT OF : Rein AJ

DECISION : See [59].

CATCHWORDS : EQUITY - company in liquidation - deed by which interest of joint venturer in property development transferred to two other joint venturers prepared after date of liquidation and executed by director void and of no effect - no oral declaration of trust or transfer of interest by company prior to liquidation established and alternatively ineffective due to absence of writing - no estoppel - other joint venturers precluded from maintaining arguments of which no notice given at commencement of hearing or until close of evidence - consideration of precise nature of relief in circumstances

LEGISLATION CITED : Conveyancing Act 1919, ss 23C, 37A Corporations Act 2001, s 471B

Carl Zeiss Stiftung v Herbert Smith & Co (No 2) [1969] 2 Ch 276 CASES CITED : Huynh v Helleh Holdings Pty Ltd (2001) 10 BPR 19,333; [2001] NSWSC 1162 Ramsden v Dyson (1866) LR 1 HL 129 Waltons Stores (Interstate) Ltd v Maher (1988) 164 CLR 387

Dueeasy Pty Limited ACN 002 861 341 (Plaintiff) PARTIES : D & M Hughes Civil Engineering Pty Limited (in liq) ACN 002 135 579 (First Defendant) W & G Lambiris & Sons Pty Limited ACN 001 908 363 (Second Defendant) Rabobi Pty Limited ACN 002 557 691 (Third Defendant)

FILE NUMBER(S) : SC 6191/04

F Donohoe (Plaintiff) COUNSEL : V Gray (Second and Third Defendants) J Clarke (First Defendant)