Bellissimo v JCL Investments Pty Ltd [2009] NSWSC 1260

New South Wales Supreme Court

CITATION : Bellissimo v JCL Investments Pty Ltd [2009] NSWSC 1260

HEARING DATE(S) : 2 November 2009

JUDGMENT DATE : 2 November 2009

JURISDICTION : Equity

JUDGMENT OF : White J

EX TEMPORE JUDGMENT DATE : 2 November 2009

DECISION : 1. Order that the plaintiff remove caveat number AD5289XXX forthwith; 2. Order that the proceedings be otherwise dismissed.

CATCHWORDS : CAVEAT – application for extension of caveat – whether interest in land claimed by caveat is adequately described – whether agreement granting authority to lodge caveat by implication confers such an interest in land as will sustain caveat – if agreement had been intended to create charge over land that charge would be unenforceable as mortgage duty has not been paid under Duties Act 1997 – form of caveat defective – order that caveat be removed

LEGISLATION CITED : Real Property Act 1900 (NSW) Duties Act 1997 (NSW)

Hanson Construction Materials Pty Ltd v Vimwise Civil Engineering Pty Ltd [2005] NSWSC 880; (2005) 12 BPR 23,355 Warden v Mortgage House No 1 Pty Ltd [2006] NSWSC 1462; (2006) 13 BPR 24,375 Troncone v Aliperti (1994) 6 BPR 13,291 Coleman v Bone (1996) 9 BPR 16,235 CASES CITED : Nudd v Official Trustee in Bankruptcy [2002] NSWSC 399; (2002) 11 BPR 20,163 Redglove Projects Pty Ltd v Ngunnawal Local Aboriginal Land Council [2004] NSWSC 880; (2004) 12 BPR 22,319 Iaconis v Lazar [2007] NSWSC 1103; (2007) 13 BPR 24,937 Express Loans & Finance Pty Ltd v Hunter [2004] NSWSC 142; (2004) 11 BPR 21,451 Boral Recycling v Wake [2009] NSWSC 712 Wu v Dardaneliotou [2008] NSWSC 1319