The Estate of Nicholas Paul Enright [2017] NSWSC 1646

Supreme Court New South Wales

Medium Neutral Citation: The Estate of Nicholas Paul Enright [2017] NSWSC 1646 Hearing dates: 27 October 2017 Date of orders: 29 November 2017 Decision date: 29 November 2017 Jurisdiction: Equity Before: Rein J Decision: See [42]. Catchwords: EQUITY – questions for separate determination pursuant to UCPR 28.2 – whether, on the proper construction of the Will, the Plaintiff's appointment as "Literary Executor" in clause 7.3 of the Will was an appointment as an Executor within the meaning of s 41 of the Probate and Administration Act 1898 (NSW) – and whether, if so, the property the subject of the Plaintiff's appointment as an Executor includes the copyright and other intellectual property in the deceased's works; Legislation Cited: Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 2005 (NSW) Probate and Administration Act 1898 (NSW) Copyright Act 1968 (Cth) Trustee Act 1925 (NSW) Cases Cited: Re Wills of Mary Clark (1903) 4 SR (NSW) 248 In the Goods of Harris (1870) LR 2P & D 83 Fell v Fell (1922) 31 CLR 268 Perpetual v Wright (1987) 9 NSWLR 18 Muir v Winn [2009] NSWSC 857 Coorey v Coorey (22/02/1986 NSWSC Unreported) Re Estate Polykarpou [2016] NSWSC 409 Carroll v Perpetual Trustee Co Ltd (1916) 22 CLR 423 In re Orwell's Will Trusts, Dixon & ors ats Blair [1982] 1 WLR 1337 Woodhouse v Cohen (1950) 198 Misc, 1000, 101 NYS 2d 675 Sharp v A-G (NSW) [2015] NSWSC 1580 In the Estate of Holland [1936] 3 ALL ER 13 Pagels v MacDonald (1936) 54 CLR 519 McCaughey v Commissioner of Stamp Duties (1945) 46 SR (NSW) 192 Re Rogowski (decd); Estate of Biesiada (2007) 248 LSJS 274 Official Receiver in Bankruptcy v Schultz (1990) 170 CLR 306 Commissioner of Stamp Duties (Queensland) v Livingston [1965] AC 694 Official Trustee in Bankruptcy v Robin Ann Jones [2003] NSWSC 343 Texts Cited: Lindsay J, "The Literary Executor and the Lighthouse" (2016) delivered at the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP) NSW Branch on 16 November 2016 Category: Principal judgment Parties: David Marr (Plaintiff/Cross Defendant) Walter Ian Brooke Enright (Defendant/Cross Claimant) Representation: Counsel: R.L. Lancaster SC (Plaintiff) J. Needham SC (Defendant) Solicitors: Arnold Bloch Leibler (Plaintiff) Holman Webb Lawyers (Defendant) File Number(s): 2003/110737