NSW Caselaw
New South Wales Supreme Court
CITATION : Snelgrove & ors v Swindells [2007] NSWSC 868 This decision has been amended. Please see the end of the judgment for a list of the amendments.
HEARING DATE(S) : 2 and 3 August 2006
JUDGMENT DATE : 6 August 2007
JURISDICTION : Equity Division Protective List
JUDGMENT OF : Windeyer J at 1
DECISION : Order for part costs made
CATCHWORDS : MENTAL HEALTH - protected estates - person subject to order under Protected Estates Act - application for revocation brought to the Guardianship Tribunal - whether manager should be directed to pay costs of solicitors for protected person seeking revocation out of her estate
LEGISLATION CITED : Protected Estates Act 1983, s33(2), s35 Guardianship Act 1987, s25E, s58, s69(1)
In re an Incapable Person D [1983] 2 NSWLR 590 CASES CITED : JNRD and the Protected Estates Act (1992) 28 NSWLR 728 Re GHI (2005) 221 ALR 589
John Anthony Snelgrove (First Plaintiff) Andrew Gorman (Second Plaintiff) Andrew Spearitt (Third Plaintiff) PARTIES : Brent Hedges (Fourth Plaintiff) Clive Curwood (Fifth Plaintiff) Peter Ford (Sixth Plaintiff) Scott Kennedy (Seventh Plaintiff) Daryl Swindells (in his capacity as the financial manager of the estate of BMH)
FILE NUMBER(S) : SC P28 of 2007
COUNSEL : Mr P Whiteford SC with him Mr G Underwood (Plaintiffs) Mr L Ellison SC (Defendant)
SOLICITORS : Curwoods (Plaintiffs) Pigott Stinson (Defendant)
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