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New Zealand Case Law

Second caveat leave (s148 lta 1952)
  • 21 Oct 2015

    DENG v LU [2015] NZHC 2585

    Citation
    [2015] NZHC 2585
    Court
    High Court

    Leave was granted for the father to lodge a second caveat because evidence established a reasonably arguable case that a 19 March 2015 deed validly nominated/vested interest in the father and that the $160,000 pre-payment coupled with the pre-auction and auction agreements gave rise to an arguable equitable entitlement warranting interim protection; prejudice to respondents was limited by existing deposits; the son's caveat was ordered to lapse as redundant because the father's caveat preserves the claimed interest; relief was granted subject to strict procedural conditions (file substantive…