NSW Caselaw
New South Wales Court of Appeal
CITATION: ING Bank (Australia) Ltd v O'Shea [2010] NSWCA 71
HEARING DATE(S): 18 February 2010
JUDGMENT DATE: 13 April 2010
JUDGMENT OF: Giles JA at [1]; Campbell JA at [58]; Young JA at [59]
DECISION: The appeal is dismissed with costs.
CATCHWORDS: REAL PROPERTY- easements- equity- relief against forfeiture- grantor with contractual right to have easement released if dominant tenement owner breached conditions- whether relief against forfeiture should be granted- whether requirement of unconscionable conduct on respondents' part- breaches caused substantial inconvenience and loss of amenity to the servient tenement- no error in trial judge refusing relief. REAL PROPERTY- easements- court imposed easement- whether regard had to the rights of the servient tenement owner in determining whether "reasonably necessary"- whether regard to effect on servient tenement proper in assessment of "reasonably necessary"- Conveyancing Act 1919, s 88K.
Conveyancing Act 1919, ss 88B, 88K LEGISLATION CITED: Evidence Act 1995, s 55 Queensland Property Law Act 1974-5
CATEGORY: Principal judgment
Bofinger v Kingsway Group Ltd [2009] HCA 44; 239 CLR 269 Calahorra Properties Pty Ltd v Nelson [1985] ANZ ConvR 352; Q ConvR 54-202 Commonwealth Development Bank of Australia v Eagle Hotels Pty Ltd [1990] ANZ ConvR 100; NSW ConvR 55-506 D & D Corak Investments Pty Ltd v Yiasemides [2006] NSWSC 1419; 13 BPR 24,103 Hanny v Lewis (1998) 9 BPR 16,205 House v The King [1936] HCA 40; 55 CLR 499 Katakouzinos v Roufir Pty Ltd [1999] NSWSC 1045; 9 BPR 17,303 Khattar v Wiese [2005] NSWSC 1014; 12 BPR 23,235 Leeds International Co-operative Society Ltd v Slack [1924] AC 851 Legione v Hateley (1983) 152 CLR 406 CASES CITED: MI Design Pty Ltd v Dunecar Pty Ltd [2000] NSWSC 996; 10 BPR 18,387 Peachey v Somerset (Duke) (1721) 1 Strange 447; 93 ER 626 Re Seaforth Land Sales Pty Ltd's Land [1976] Qd R 190 Re Seaforth Land Sales Pty Ltd's Land (No 2) [1977] Qd R 317 Shiloh Spinners Ltd v Harding [1973] AC 691 Stern v McArthur [1988] HCA 51; 165 CLR 489 Tanwar Enterprises Pty Ltd v Cauchi [2003] HCA 57; 217 CLR 315 Tenth Vandy Pty Ltd v Natwest Markets Australia Pty Ltd [2010] VSC 2 Tillman v AG (NSW) [2007] NSWCA 327; 70 NSWLR 448 Tregoyd Gardens Pty Ltd v Jervis (1997) 8 BPR 15,845 Woodland v Manly Municipal Council [2003] NSWSC 392; 127 LGERA 120 117 York Street Pty Ltd v Proprietors of Strata Plan No 16123 (1998) 43 NSWLR 504
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