Amaya v Estate Property Holdings Pty Ltd;Firmstone v Estate Property Holdings Pty Ltd;Abu Sarkar v Estate Property Holdings Pty Ltd [2010] NSWSC 32

New South Wales Supreme Court

CITATION : Amaya v Estate Property Holdings Pty Ltd;Firmstone v Estate Property Holdings Pty Ltd;Abu Sarkar v Estate Property Holdings Pty Ltd [2010] NSWSC 32

HEARING DATE(S) : 14 and 15 December 2009

JUDGMENT DATE : 9 February 2010

JURISDICTION : Equity Division

JUDGMENT OF : White J

DECISION : Refer to para 71of judgment.

CATCHWORDS : CONTRACT – vendor and purchaser dispute – where time for completion of the essence – failure to complete by purchaser – validity of vendor's service of notice of termination of contract – whether vendor performed obligation to serve occupation certificate within meaning of Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 – whether documents required to accompany occupation certificate form part of certificate – whether vendor breached obligation to provide particulars for form of transfer by failure to notify purchaser of appointment of administrator – intimation by purchaser to vendor that useless to complete – vendor's reliance on purchaser's intimation dispensed with vendor's obligation to be ready, willing and able to complete – vendor's remedies – termination – forfeiture of deposit – damages

Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 (NSW) LEGISLATION CITED : Corporations Act 2001 (Cth) Conveyancing Act 1919 (NSW)

CATEGORY : Principal judgment

McQueen v Leduva Pty Ltd [2008] NSWSC 284 Fekala Pty Ltd v Castle Constructions Pty Ltd [2002] NSWCA 297; (2003) NSW ConvR 56-042 Peter Turnbull & Co Pty Ltd v Mundus Trading Co (Australasia) Pty Ltd (1954) 90 CLR 235 CASES CITED : Wilson v Kingsgate Mining Industries Pty Ltd [1973] 2 NSWLR 713 Ireland v Leigh [1981] Qd R 145 Blacktown City Council v Fitzgerald (1990) 6 BPR 13,409 Union Eagle Ltd v Golden Achievement Ltd (Hong Kong) [1997] UKPC 5; [1997] AC 514