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Residential tenancies

Reznik v NSW Land and Housing Corporation

Appeal Panel held NCAT failed to engage with key CCTV and oral evidence about continuing driveway noise, and remitted the quiet enjoyment claim.

  • Quiet enjoyment
  • Noise disturbance
  • Failure to consider evidence
  • Adequacy of reasons
  • Leave to appeal and questions of law
  • Residential-tenancy
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Leases and tenancies

Jacmon v NSW Land and Housing Corporation

The Appeal Panel allowed the appeal, finding errors in the Tribunal’s handling of habitability, repairs and alternative accommodation costs, and remitted limited claims.

  • Social housing tenancy
  • Quiet enjoyment
  • Habitability of premises
  • Repairs and maintenance
  • Alternative accommodation costs
  • Mitigation of loss
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Criminal law

O’Toole v R

District Court appeal allowed in convictions on identification and circumstantial evidence grounds; charges in both the Passat and motorbike matters were dismissed.

  • Appeals against conviction
  • Identification evidence
  • Recognition evidence
  • Circumstantial evidence
  • False emergency call
  • Drive never licensed
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Civil procedure

Demasi v State of New South Wales

The Court refused leave to appeal out of time from a Local Court negligence judgment, holding s 21(2) of the Pawnbrokers Act did not create a police duty of safekeeping.

  • Extension of time
  • Question of law
  • Statutory construction
  • Procedural fairness
  • Unrepresented litigant
  • Local court appeal
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Civil procedure

Prakash v Commonwealth Securities Limited trading as Commsec

The Court of Appeal dismissed the notice of appeal as incompetent and refused leave to appeal from interlocutory orders dismissing Prakash’s case against Commsec.

  • Leave to appeal from interlocutory orders
  • Abuse of process
  • Default judgment
  • Strike out of pleadings
  • Procedural fairness
  • Hearsay evidence on interlocutory applications
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Appeals

Talevski v Perpetual Corporate Trust Limited

The Court of Appeal refused to restrain sale of three mortgaged properties pending a leave application, finding only a limited arguable case and balance of convenience favouring Perpetual.

  • Interlocutory injunction
  • Default judgment
  • Setting aside default judgment
  • Mortgage possession and sale
  • Contracts review act 1980 (nsw)
  • Balance of convenience
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Contract

Barel v Barel

The Court of Appeal dismissed an appeal about three alleged oral loan agreements between family members, upholding findings that they were repayable on sale of the Dover Heights property.

  • Oral loan agreements
  • Findings of fact
  • Witness credibility
  • Repayment terms
  • Limitation act 1969 (nsw)
  • Costs
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Civil procedure

Ahmad v The University of Sydney

Leave to appeal was refused and the summons dismissed. The Court also dismissed an incompetent notice of appeal, corrected the University’s name, and removed the second respondent.

  • Leave to appeal
  • Summary dismissal
  • Strike out
  • Jurisdiction
  • Judicial review
  • Absence of party
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Building and construction

OPES Lifestyle Homes Pty Ltd v KMA Concrete Constructions Pty Ltd

Appeal Panel refused leave to appeal and dismissed OPES’s appeal, holding the alleged contract variation was sufficiently certain and the new points could not be run for the first time.

  • Contract variation
  • Certainty of terms
  • Consideration
  • Intention to create legal relations
  • Scope of appeal on question of law
  • Leave to appeal
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Criminal law

Solo v R

The Court granted leave to appeal but dismissed a sentence appeal, holding the disparity with a co-offender was explained by objective and subjective differences.

  • Parity principle
  • Joint criminal enterprise
  • Grievous bodily harm
  • Form 1 offences
  • Conditional liberty
  • Subjective and objective sentencing factors
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