NSW Caselaw
Appeal Outcome: Special leave application dismissed with costs 1 May 2009 (S546/2008)
New South Wales Court of Appeal
CITATION: Carantinos v Magafas [2008] NSWCA 304
HEARING DATE(S): 12-13 March 2008
JUDGMENT DATE: 14 November 2008
JUDGMENT OF: Hodgson JA at 1; Campbell JA at 117; Handley AJA at 153
DECISION: See par [116].
CATCHWORDS: EQUITY – FIDUCIARY OBLIGATIONS – PARTNERSHIP – PROCEDURE – Clean hands defence – Whether conduct must be directed against defendant – Whether conduct had sufficiently close relationship to the equity sued for – Whether conditional relief appropriate – Remedies – Account – Whether accounting party should account for whole of proceeds of sale of property of which he was not proved to have total beneficial ownership – Whether party whose beneficial interest in the property was not excluded should be a party to the accounting – Whether appropriate to reserve substantive issues for further consideration.
CATEGORY: Principal judgment
Armstrong v Sheppard & Short Ltd [1959] 2 QB 384 Australian Hardboards Limited v Hudson Investment Group Ltd [2007] NSWCA 104 Baden Delvaux & Lecuit v Societe General pour Favoriser le Developpement [1983] BCLC 325 Barnes v Addy (1874) LR 9 Ch App 244 Black Uhlans Inc v New South Wales Crime Commission [2002] NSWSC 1060 Breen v Williams (1996) 186 CLR 71 Farah Constructions Pty Ltd v Say-Dee Pty Ltd [2007] HCA 22; (2007) 230 CLR 89 Fitzgerald v F J Leonhardt Pty Ltd (1997) 189 CLR 215 Kettles & Gas Appliances Ltd v Anthony Hordern & Sons Ltd (1934) 35 SR(NSW) 108 CASES CITED: Lucas v Cutts (Vice Chancellor, 24 February 1853) McGrory v Alderdale Estate Company Limited [1918] AC 503 Meehan v Glazier Holdings Pty Ltd [2002] NSWCA 22; (2002) 54 NSWLR 146 Meyers v Casey (1913) 17 CLR 90 National Broach and Machine Co v Churchill Gear Machines Ltd [1965] 1 WLR 1199 Nelson v Nelson (1995) 184 CLR 538 Official Trustee in Bankruptcy v Tooheys Ltd (1993) 29 NSWLR 641 Pawsey v Armstrong (1881) 18 Ch D 698 Poulton v Adjustable Cover and Boiler Block Company [1908] 2 Ch 430 Say-Dee Pty Ltd v Farah Constructions Pty Ltd [2005] NSWCA 309 In Re Wrightson [1908] 1 Ch 789
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