NSW Caselaw
New South Wales Supreme Court
CITATION : Gibson v Haselgrove; Delmont v Haselgrove [2009] NSWSC 496
HEARING DATE(S) : 25, 26 and 27 May 2009
JUDGMENT DATE : 5 June 2009
JURISDICTION : Equity Division
JUDGMENT OF : Ward J
DECISION : Judgment for plaintiffs.
CATCHWORDS : SUCCESSION – family provision and maintenance – failure of testator to make sufficient provision for applicant – whether inadequate provision made for widow and for de facto partner – consideration of respective financial circumstances of applicants – held that provision for both inadequate – orders for provision made. - SUCCESSION – family provision and maintenance – practice – whether solicitor's mistake amounted to sufficient cause for not bringing application within prescribed period – whether further period should be allowed – consideration of factors weighing on discretion – held that sufficient cause established – further period allowed.
Family Provision Act 1982 LEGISLATION CITED : Motor Accidents Act 1988 Testator's Family Maintenance and Guardianship of Infants Act 1916
CATEGORY : Principal judgment
Andresakis and Skouteris v Aletus Holdings (2006) 68 NSWLR 507 Charles v Charles (unreported, 25 March 1998, NSWSC) De Winter v Johnstone (Court of Appeal, 23 August 1995, unreported) Firman v Ellis [1978] 1 QB 88 Foley v Ellis [2008] NSWCA 288 Gorton v Parks (1989) 17 NSWLR 1 Hartley v Birmingham City Council [1992] 1 WLR 968 In re Gilbert (1946) 46 SR (NSW) 318 Kalmar v Kalmar; Estate of Kalmar [2006] NSWSC 437 CASES CITED : Massie v Laundy (7 February 1986, unreported) Maxwell v Public Trustee [2001] NSWSC 764 Nicholls v Hall [2007] NSWCA 256 Robinson v Tame (Court of Appeal, 9 December 1994, unreported) Salido v Nominal Defendant (1993) 32 NSWLR 524 Simonis v Perpetual Trustee (1987) 21 NSWLR 677 Singer v Berghouse (No 2) (1994) 181 CLR 201 Thompson v Brown [1981] 1 WLR 744 Turnley v Swaab [1999] NSWSC 594 Warren v McKnight (1996) 40 NSWLR 390 Wilkinson v Wilkinson [2002] NSWSC 175
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