NSW Caselaw
New South Wales Supreme Court
CITATION : El-Kazzi v Kassoum [2009] NSWSC 99
HEARING DATE(S) : 8, 9, 22 and 23 December 2008
JUDGMENT DATE : 4 March 2009
JURISDICTION : Equity Division
JUDGMENT OF : Ward J at 1
DECISION : Plaintiffs' claim dismissed.
CATCHWORDS : CONTRACTS – general contractual principles – parties – identification of parties – whether plaintiffs are parties to loan agreement as lender – plaintiffs carrying on business under business name registered in the name of a third party – loan agreement describes lender by business name – held that plaintiffs are parties to loan agreement as lender – parties intended lender to be whomever was actually carrying on business under business name - REAL PROPERTY – Torrens title – indefeasibility of title – exceptions – fraud – whether plaintiffs' equitable charge over property survived transfer to defendants – whether transfer affected by equitable and/or statutory fraud – whether a colourable sale intended to deprive plaintiffs of benefit of equitable charge over property – held that there was no equitable or statutory fraud.
LEGISLATION CITED : Business Names Act 2002 Real Property Act 1900
CATEGORY : Principal judgment
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