NSW Caselaw
New South Wales Supreme Court
CITATION : Kozak v Berwecki [2008] NSWSC 39
HEARING DATE(S) : 5, 6 and 7 December 2007
JUDGMENT DATE : 8 February 2008
JURISDICTION : Equity Division Probate List
JUDGMENT OF : Windeyer J
DECISION : Claim for revocation of probate dismissed.
CATCHWORDS : WILLS PROBATE AND ADMINISTRATION - probate - application for revocation of common form grant of probate - whether deceased lacked testamentary capacity - soundness of mind, memory and understanding - insane delusion - evaluation and discrimination requirement - officiousness - consideration of relevance - WILLS PROBATE AND ADMINISTRATION - practice and procedure - caveats - by administrative error caveat not cross-referenced to summons and grant made in error - consideration of proper action
CATEGORY : Principal judgment
Banks v Goodfellow [1870] LR 5 QB 549 Boughton v Knight [1873] LR 3 P&D 64 CASES CITED : Bull v Fulton (1942) 66 CLR 295 Estate of Griffiths (deceased) Easter v Griffiths (NSW Court of Appeal, 7 June 1995, unreported) Read v Carmody (NSW Court of Appeal, 23 July 1998, unreported) Worth v Clasohm (1952) 86 CLR 439
Peter Tony Kozak (Plaintiff) PARTIES : Ireneusz Berwecki (First Defendant) Barbar Chszanowska (Second Defendant)
FILE NUMBER(S) : SC 117709 of 2005
COUNSEL : J J Loofs (Plaintiff) V R Grey (Defendants)
SOLICITORS : Teece Hodgson & Ward (Plaintiff) Horowitz & Bilinsky (Defendants)
- 36 - IN THE SUPREME COURT OF NEW SOUTH WALES EQUITY DIVISION PROBATE LIST
WINDEYER J
FRIDAY 8 FEBRUARY 2008
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