ROBERTS v GILGANDRA SHIRE COUNCIL [2008] NSWSC 1244

New South Wales Supreme Court

CITATION : ROBERTS v GILGANDRA SHIRE COUNCIL [2008] NSWSC 1244

HEARING DATE(S) : 7-8 August 2008

JUDGMENT DATE : 28 November 2008

JURISDICTION : EQUITY

JUDGMENT OF : Bryson AJ at 1

DECISION : Give judgment for the defendant with costs.

CATCHWORDS : ROADS - construction of current C.T. which referred to Crown Grant and Parish Map to determine whether reserved road passing through rural property was part of the plaintiffs' land: HELD on construction of C.T. Crown Grant and plan, it was not. Road was dedicated in 1926 but long disused - contentions that Council was estopped from asserting it was still a public road or was obliged to apply to Minister to close it - HELD - no contractual obligation or estoppel bond Council to take action to close road.

Conveyancing Act 1919, s 54A Crown Lands Act 1884 Crown Lands Consolidation Acts LEGISLATION CITED : Local Government Act 1919 s 232, s 530A(2)-(6) Public Roads Act 1902 s 18 Real Property Act 1900, s 46C, s 42, s 40(1B) Roads Act 1993 s 34(1)(b), (2), s 128

CATEGORY : Principal judgment

Attorney General for New South Wales v Dixon [1904] AC 273 Black v Garnock (2007) 230 CLR 438 Bursill Enterprises Pty Ltd v Berger Bros Trading Co. Pty Ltd (1971) 124 CLR 73 Canada Bay City Council v F&D Bonaccorso Pty Ltd [2007] 156 LGERA 294 City of Canada Bay Council v Bonaccorso Pty Ltd (2007) 156 LGERA 294: [2007] NSWCA 351 F&D Bonaccorso v Canada Bay City Council (No 2) [2007] NSW LEC 537 CASES CITED : McGrath v Williams (1912) 12 SR (NSW) 477 New South Wales Trotting Club Limited v The Council for the Municipality of Glebe (1937) 37 SR (NSW) 288 Permanent Trustee Company of New South Wales Limited v Campbelltown Corporation [1960] HCA 62, 105 CLR 401 Quach v Marrickville Municipal Council (1990) 22 NSWLR 55 Re Kerrigan Ex Parte Jones (1946) 47 SR (NSW) 76 Tanwar Enterprises Pty Ltd v Cauchi (2003) 217 CLR 315 Vickery v Municipality of Strathfield (1911) 11 SR (NSW) 351