NSW Caselaw
New South Wales Supreme Court
CITATION : Dable v Peisley [2009] NSWSC 772
HEARING DATE(S) : 9, 10 and 11 June 2009
JUDGMENT DATE : 7 August 2009
JURISDICTION : Equity Division
JUDGMENT OF : Ward J
DECISION : Plaintiffs claims dismissed.
CATCHWORDS : CONTRACTS – general contractual principles – offer and acceptance – whether deceased contracted to leave estate to plaintiffs in exchange for provision of hospitality and personal services – whether objectively ascertainable intention legally to be bound – whether consideration sufficient – whether offer accepted – held that no contract existed – no objectively ascertainable intention legally to be bound - ESTOPPEL – proprietary estoppel – whether deceased's executors estopped from denying plaintiffs' interest in estate – held that deceased had made assurances that he would leave estate to one or more of the plaintiffs – assurances not understood to be irrevocable and not relied upon as such – held no significant detriment suffered – not unconscionable for deceased to act contrary to assurances made.
LEGISLATION CITED : Conveyancing Act 1919 (NSW)
CATEGORY : Principal judgment
Austin v Keele (1987) 10 NSWLR 283 Australian Crime Commission v Gray [2003] NSWCA 318 Barnes v Alderton [2008] NSWSC 107 Birmingham v Renfrew (1936) 57 CLR 666 Carlill v Carbolic Smoke Ball Company [1893] 1 QB 256 Ciavarella v Polimeni [2008] NSWSC 234 Equititrust Limited v Franks [2009] NSWCA 128 Flinn v Flinn [1999] 3 VR 712 Galaxidis v Galaxidis [2004] NSWCA 111 Gillett v Holt [1998] 3 All ER 917 Gissing v Gissing [1971] AC 886 Grant v Edwards [1986] Ch 638 CASES CITED : Hawker Pacific Pty Limited v Helicopter Charter Pty Limited (1991) 22 NSWLR 298 Palmer v Bank of New South Wales (1975) 133 CLR 150 Ramsden v Dyson (1866) LR 1 HL 129 Saliba v Tarmo [2009] NSWSC 581 Simpson-Cook v Delaforce [2009] NSWSC 357 Staib v Powell [1979] Qd R 151 Taylor v Dickens [1998] 1 FLR (Eng) 806 Thorner v Major [2009] UKHL 18 Vukic v Luca Grbin; Estate of Zvonko Grbin [2006] NSWSC 41 Walton v Walton (1994, CA, unreported) Watson v Foxman (1995) 49 NSWLR 315 Weeks v Hrubala [2008] NSWSC 162 Woolworths Limited v Kelly (1991) 22 NSWLR 189 Yeoman's Row Management Limited v Cobbe [2008] UKHL 55
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