NSW Caselaw
New South Wales Supreme Court
CITATION : Sahab Holdings Pty Limited v Registrar-General & Anor [No 2] [2010] NSWSC 162
HEARING DATE(S) : 26-27 May 2009, 5-26 June 2009, 26 October 2009
JUDGMENT DATE : 8 March 2010
JURISDICTION : Equity
JUDGMENT OF : Slattery J at 1
DECISION : Summons dismissed.
CATCHWORDS : REAL PROPERTY - Torrens title - application for review of Registrar General's 2001 decision removing a right of way from the folio of the register for servient tenement and for review of 2008 decision not to restore the right of way and for relief under Real Property Act ss 12, 122, 136 & 138 - construction of terms of right of way - whether the Registrar General can be ordered to alter the register to restore a right of way under s 138(3) Real Property Act - not proceedings to which s 138 applies - correction of an error by Registrar General would not be authorised under either s 136 (1) or 12 (1) (d) Real Property Act - s 136 only applies to restricted case of wrongful retention of instruments - not established Registrar General made an 'error' as defined in s 12 (1) (d) - application under s 122 for review of Registrar General's decision fails - only available where Registrar General refuses to perform a duty and where action otherwise available to Registrar General - no statutory basis to interfere with the Registrar General's 2001 decision or 2008 decision - summons dismissed
Conveyancing Act 1919 (NSW), s 88K LEGISLATION CITED : Real Property Act 1900 (NSW) ss 12, 49, 80I, 80J, 121, 122, 136, 138 Supreme Court Act 1970 (NSW) s 65 Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 2005 (NSW) (UCPR) r 6.11(2)
CATEGORY : Principal judgment
Ex parte Gallagher (1908) 8 SR (NSW) 230 McGuinness v The Registrar General (1998) 44 NSWLR 61 Pirie v Registrar General (1962) 109 CLR 619 CASES CITED : Sahab Holdings Pty Limited v Castle Constructions Pty Limited [2009] NSWSC 1143 Scallon v Registrar General (1988) 12 NSWLR 514 St Atanoub Properties Pty Limited v Registrar-General [2002] NSWSC 615 State Bank of New South Wales v Berowra Waters Holdings Pty Limited (1986) 4 NSWLR 398 William v James (1867) LR2CP 577
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