NSW Caselaw
New South Wales Court of Appeal
CITATION: Stephen James Rigg v Paul Sheridan & Ors [2008] NSWCA 79
HEARING DATE(S): 1 April 2008
JUDGMENT DATE: 5 May 2008
JUDGMENT OF: Beazley JA at 1; Giles JA at 2; Handley AJA at 3
DECISION: Appeal dismissed with costs.
CATCHWORDS: FIDUCIARY DUTY - Conflict of duties - Whether real sensible possibility of conflict - Duty to disclose material facts - Whether fact material - FIDUCIARY DUTY - Conflict of duties - Whether causation relevant - SOLICITOR - Acting for multiple parties - Whether conflicting duties - Whether real sensible possibility of conflict - SOLICITOR - Acting for multiple parties - Duty to disclose material facts - Whether reduced risk of legal challenge material fact
LEGISLATION CITED: Contracts Review Act 1980
CATEGORY: Principal judgment
Brickenden v London Loan & Savings Co [1934] 3 DLR 465 Beach Petroleum NL v Kennedy [1999] NSWCA 408, 48 NSWLR 1 Clark Boyce v Mouat [1994] 1 AC 428 Citicorp Australia Ltd v O'Brien (1996) 40 NSWLR 398 Farrington v Rowe McBride and Partners [1985] 1 NZLR 83 Maguire v Makaronis [1997] HCA 23, 188 CLR 449 CASES CITED: Boardman v Phipps [1967] 2 AC 46 Boulting v Association of Cinematograph, Television and Allied Technicians [1963] 2 QB 606 Queensland Mines Ltd v Hudson (1978) 52 ALJR 399 Hospital Products Ltd v United States Surgical Corporation [1984] HCA 64 Bristol and West Building Society v Mothew [1998] Ch 1 CA, 19 Demerara Bauxite Co Ltd v Hubbard [1923] AC 673 Inche Noriah v Shaik Allie Bin Omar [1929] AC 127 Duchess of Argyll v Beuselinck [1972] 2 Lloyd's Law Reports 172
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