HANDLEY & Anor v GUNNER [2008] NSWCA 113

New South Wales Court of Appeal

CITATION: HANDLEY & Anor v GUNNER [2008] NSWCA 113

HEARING DATE(S): 11 April 2008

JUDGMENT DATE: 28 May 2008

JUDGMENT OF: Mason P at 1; Hodgson JA at 110; Campbell JA at 117

DECISION: Appeal upheld

CATCHWORDS: REAL PROPERTY – Easements – particular easements and rights – rights of way - CONTRACTS – General contractual principles – discharge, breach and defences to action for breach – performance – whether respondent's obligations under deed spent – where term requiring respondent to issue transfer at request of appellant - CONTRACTS – General contractual principles – construction and interpretation of contracts – implied term – duration of contract – whether implication in contract that term to be exercised within a reasonable time – whether reasonable time had elapsed

LEGISLATION CITED: Limitation Act 1969 Suitor's Fund Act 1951

CATEGORY: Principal judgment

Bragg v Alam (1982) NSW Conv R 55-082 Bragg v Alam [1981] 1 NSWLR 668 Brambles Holdings Pty Ltd v Bathurst City Council [2001] NSWCA 61; (2001) 53 NSWLR 153 Carlton & United Breweries Ltd v Tooth & Co Ltd (Supreme Court of New South Wales, Hodgson J, 11 June 1985, unreported Codelfa Construction Pty Ltd v State Rail Authority of NSW [1982] HCA 24; (1982) 149 CLR 337 Ellmore (Maitland) Pty Ltd v Tull (1995) 7 BPR 14,305 Gallagher v Rainbow (1994) 179 CLR 624 Geraghty v Russell (1874) 5 AJR 89 CASES CITED: Hall v Busst (1960) 104 CLR 206 Maritime Services Board of NSW v Australian Shipping Commission (1991) 27 NSWLR 258 Neill v Public Trustee [1978] 2 NSWLR 65 Nullagine Investments Pty Ltd v Western Australian Club Inc (1993) 177 CLR 635 Partridge v Preddey (1904) 4 SR (NSW) 36 Reid v Moreland Timber Co Pty Ltd [1946] HCA 48 Rudi's Enterprises Pty Ltd v Jay (1987) 10 NSWLR 568 Short v Patrial Holdings Pty Ltd (1994) 6 BPR 13,996 Warburton v National Westminster Finance Australia Ltd (1988) 15 NSWLR 238