19 Jun 2015
DEREK NICHOLAS BLACKWELL AND CHARLES BASIL BLACKWELL as Executors and Trustees of the Estate of ROSS WINSTON BLACKWELL v LEITH ROGER CHICK AND ROSEMARY CHICK [2015] NZSC 85
- Citation
- [2015] NZSC 85
- Court
- Supreme Court
Leave to appeal was refused on capacity and unconscionability because no substantive legal question of public importance arose and concurrent factual findings below were not susceptible to review; leave was granted on causation because the Court of Appeal's conclusion that solicitor negligence caused no loss raised a question suitable for Supreme Court consideration, given the High Court findings that proper advice would likely have produced different contractual protection.