Virginie-Pitel v Campbell; Campbell v Virginie-Pitel [2010] NSWSC 1440

New South Wales Supreme Court

CITATION : Virginie-Pitel v Campbell; Campbell v Virginie-Pitel [2010] NSWSC 1440

HEARING DATE(S) : 24/09/10, 19/10/10, 07/12/10

JUDGMENT DATE : 15 December 2010

JUDGMENT OF : Slattery J at 1

CATCHWORDS : PROCEDURE - courts and judges generally - proceedings for revocation of probate and declarations of invalidity of will - settlement of proceedings between two of three parties to proceedings - second defendant declines to take part in proceedings - directions for service of notice of proposed orders on second defendant - whether second defendant has proper notice of orders proposed to be made - SUCCESSION - wills, probate and administration - despite settlement, as against second defendant, it is necessary to prove circumstances warranting revocation of probate - whether probate should be revoked - later will is invalid for want of testamentary capacity - parties agree to dispense with procedural requirements to make a claim under Family Provision Act, 1982 - Court declines to make such orders - grants liberty to apply.

Conveyancing Act (1919), s 66G Family Provision Act (1982), s 6 LEGISLATION CITED : Probate and Administration Act (1898), s 40D and 90. Succession Act (2006), Schedule 1, Clause 11(2). Supreme Court Rules (1970) , Part 78, Rules 61 & 62

CATEGORY : Principal judgment

Azzopardi v Smart (1992) 27 NSWLR 232 Bailey v Bailey (1924) 34 CLR 558 Banks v Goodfellow (1870) LR5QB 549 Bates v Messner (1967) 67 SR (NSW) 187 Brown v M'Encroe (1890) 11 LR (NSW) Eq 134 Edwards v Boyd (1958) 75 WN (NSW) 525 CASES CITED : Ex Parte Keegan (1907) 7 SR (NSW) 565 Re Estate of Griffith (Deceased); Easter v Griffith (1995) 217 ALR 284 Re Estate of Hodges (Deceased); Shorter v Hodges (1988) 14 NSWLR 698 Re Fenwick (deceased) [1972] VR 646 Re Estate of Wilson (1991) 24 NSWLR 334 Worth v Clasohm (1952) 86 CLR 439 Stephens v Perpetual Trustee Company Limited (2009) 76 NSWLR 15