Laina accepted an urgent brief from the NSW Bar Pro Bono Scheme to act for an elderly couple with dementia who were at risk of losing their ingoing contributions to a retirement village in Goyal v West. The operator was insolvent and receivers had been appointed to sell the property on which the retirement village...Read More
This article will trace the evolution of the common law concept of caveat emptor where a vendor only had to disclose latent defects in title whether or not known to the vendor, to the constraints now placed on vendors via their obligations pursuant to s 52A of the Conveyancing Act 1919 (NSW) and s 18 of the Australian...Read More
‘that uncertainty that appears necessarily to affect this area of the law if entitlement to damages is to depend upon [a] case-by-case application of a general policy, itself inflexible and ill-defined and dependent upon a survey of a quite variable group of considerations, many of which will be susceptible of the production of differing, subjective...Read More
Caveats are the traditional way in which a person with an equitable interest in a parcel of real property can protect their interest in that property. The High Court case of Black v Garnock suggested that purchasers under contract should always lodge a caveat and shows the risks of not doing so. The incidence of fraud in...Read More
Powerpoint to accompany the first of a series of chatz between Ian Bailey SC and Laina, the video may be viewed at https://youtu.be/TVVSSbLUm0gRead More
