Crowle Foundation v NSW Trustee & Guardian [2010] NSWSC 647

New South Wales Supreme Court

CITATION : Crowle Foundation v NSW Trustee & Guardian [2010] NSWSC 647

HEARING DATE(S) : 16 June 2010

JUDGMENT DATE : 25 June 2010

JUDGMENT OF : Ball J

DECISION : 1. That in respect of the gift referred to in clauses 9.10 to 9.12 of the will of the late Kathleen Mary Waugh made on 9 October 1991 (the Will), the second plaintiff be appointed trustee in place of the second defendant of the gift. 2. That in respect of the gift referred to in clauses 9.20 to 9.22 of the Will, the second plaintiff be appointed trustee in place of the second defendant of the gift.

CATCHWORDS : CHARITABLE TRUSTS - identification of charitable purposes - TRUSTS AND TRUSTEES - appointment and removal of trustee by court - inherent jurisdiction - statutory jurisdiction - where property not yet vested in trustees - WILLS - Interpretation - Charitable bequest

Charitable Trusts Act 1993 (NSW) Disability Services Act 1993 (NSW) Disability Services & Guardianship Act 1987 (NSW) LEGISLATION CITED : Trustee Act 1925 (NSW) Trustee Act 1925 (UK) Trustee Act 1898 (NSW) Trustee Act 1850 (UK)

CATEGORY : Principal judgment

Challenge Foundation of New South Wales Ltd v Windgap Foundation Ltd [2002] NSWSC 1292 Fell v Fell (1922) 31 CLR 264 King v Perpetual Trustee Company Limited [1955] 94 CLR 70 Letterstedt v Boers (1884) 9 App Cas 371 Miller v Cameron (1936) 54 CLR 572 Monty Financial Services Ltd v Delmo [1996] 1 VR 65 CASES CITED : Porteous v Rinehardt (1998) 19 WAR 495 Re Blanchard (1861) 3 De GF&J 137 Re Boyce (1864) 4 De GJ&Sm 205 Re Combs (1884) 51 LT 45 Re Henderson [1940] Ch 764 Re Hodson's Settlement (1851) 20 LJ Ch 551 The Estate of Roberts (1983) 20 NTR 13 Titterton v Oates (1998) 143 FLR 467