NSW Caselaw
Reported Decision : 68 ACSR 420
New South Wales Supreme Court
CITATION : Wood v Inglis [2008] NSWSC 1147
HEARING DATE(S) : 23/10/08
JUDGMENT DATE : 6 November 2008
JURISDICTION : Equity Division Corporations List
JUDGMENT OF : Barrett J
DECISION : Application adjourned
CATCHWORDS : PROCEDURE - miscellaneous procedural matters - solicitor's retainer - challenge to retainer on basis that no valid corporate action of corporate party - whether determination of challenge should be deferred - onus of proof - CORPORATIONS - title to shares - shares bequeathed by will - who may be recognised by company as entitled to become holder in place of deceased holder - CORPORATIONS - internal management - purported meeting of members resolves to remove a director and appoint another director - only one member participating - whether valid resolution - whether purported appointment non-existent or merely defective - SUCCESSION - devolution of shares in company on death of registered holder
Civil Procedure Act 2005, s 98(1) Companies Act 1961, reg 89, Table A, Fourth Schedule LEGISLATION CITED : Corporations Act 2001 (Cth) ss 128, 129(2), (3), 176, 201M, 237, 1070A(1), (2), 1071B(2), (5), (8), (12), 1072E(2), 1274B Probate and Administration Act 1898, ss 44(1), 46C(2) Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 2005, rule 42.3
CATEGORY : Principal judgment
A L Campbell & Co Pty Ltd v Federal Commissioner of Taxation [1951] HCA 36; (1951) 82 CLR 452 Australian Workers Union v Bowen [1946] HCA 24; (1946) 72 CLR 575 AW & LM Forrest Pty Ltd v Beamish [1998] NSWSC 442; (1998) 146 FLR 450 Bryen v Reus [1961 SR (NSW) 396 Commissioner of Stamp Duties (Q) v Livingston (1964) 112 CLR 12 Grant v John Grant & Sons Pty Ltd [1950] HCA 64; (1950) 82 CLR 1 Griffiths v Evans [1953] 1 WLR 1424 Halliday v Sachs Group Pty Ltd (1993) 67 ALJR 678 Harry S Bagg's Liquidation Warehouse Pty Ltd v Whittaker (1982) 44 NSWLR 421 Hawksford v Hawksford [2005] NSWSC 463; (2005) 191 FLR 173 CASES CITED : Hillig v Darkinjung Pty Ltd [2008] NSWCA 75 Hillig v Darkinjung Pty Ltd (No 2) [2008] NSWCA 147 Knight v FP Special Assets Ltd [1992] HCA 28; (1992) 174 CLR 178 Lunn v Cardiff Coal Co (No 3) [2003] NSWSC 789; (2003) 177 FLR 411 Morris v Kanssen [1946] AC 459 Re Agriculturalist Cattle Insurance Co (1870) LR 5 Ch App 725 Re Briton Medical and General Life Association (1888) 39 ChD 61 Re Hastings Deering Ltd (1985) 9 ACLR 755 Richmond v Branson & Son [1914] 1 Ch 968 Worcester Corsetry Ltd v Witting [1936] Ch 640 Yonge v Toynbee [1910] 1 KB 215 Zimmerman Holdings Pty Ltd v Wales [2002] NSWSC 447
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