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Category Archives: Equity

Accounting for profits

Accounting for profits More recently in Victoria Friendly Society Ltd v Lifeplan Australia Friendly Society Ltd (2018) 92 ALJR 918; [2018] HCA 43 Kiefel CJ, Keane and Edelman JJ said (at [6]-[7]) (citations omitted): In Consul Development Pty Ltd v DPC Estates Pty Ltd, in a passage accepted as authoritative by both sides in the present case, Gibbs J […]

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Legal principles: Mingling trust funds and onus

Mingling trust funds

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Alienation of real estate by gift

(Source: Isin v Ozen [2016] NSWSC 1480; [157]-[165] per Hallen J) Alienation of real estate will be effective, in equity, by gift, if the gift is “complete”: Corin v Patton (1990) 169 CLR 540; [1990] HCA 12, at 558, 563 – 570, 582 – 583; Costin v Costin (1997) 7 BPR 15,167; [1997] NSW ConvR 55-811; […]

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