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SUCCESSION: The missing man
CASE: Re the will of William Ian Southey [2025] VSC 801Two months before his death, William Ian Southey made a Will leaving most of his $2.5 million estate to his partner Kyle Stuart Jackson. The…
SUCCESSION: A new carer
CASE: Anastasia Pates v Diane Craig and The Public Trustee Estate of the Late Joyce Jean Cole [1995] NSWSC 87This case involves a dispute over the last will of the late Joyce Jean Cole and the…
SUCCESSION: Disclaiming an inheritance
CASE: In the estate of Giuseppe Pellegrino (deceased) [2025] ACTSC 421So many questions in this case.Can you disclaim an inheritance left to you in a Will? Yes. Does the disclaimer have to be in…
FAMILY: When does a relationship breakdown?
CASE: Radecki & Fairbairn [2020] FamCAFC 307; Fairbairn & Radecki [2020] FCCA 1556Fairbairn and Radecki started a relationship when both were in their 50s, had already acquired their own…
SUCCESSION: Love, affection, but not money
CASE: Wertheim v Perpetual Trustee Company Limited [2021] NSWSC 1229Relationship come in all forms. The nuclear family dynamic is declining in prevalence. One form that is becoming increasingly…
PROPERTY: Failed development plan
CASE: Rex Phillip Tory v Sarjit Kaur Tory [2007] NSWSC 1078In 1986, Sarjit Tory owned real estate with her former brother-in-law Rex Tory. The land had great potential for rezoning and development.…
ADMINISTRATIVE: Kids' Kinder
CASE: Kids' Kinder Childcare Pty Limited v The Department of Education [2024] NSWDC 345WARNING: Disturbing content; child abuseParents are entitled to expect that when they leave their children at a…
SUCCESSION: Close personal relationship
CASE: Estate MPS, deceased [2017] NSWSC 482; Smoje vForrester [2017] NSWCA 308Miryana Smoje spent the last two years of her life dying slowly and in constant pain, from breast cancer and inadequate…
ELDER LAW: Spink about it
CASE: Flourentzou v Spink [2019] NSWCA 315In 2012, Dianne and Mario Flourentzou purchased a property in Casula to live in with their three children. Dianne's mother, Ricky Spink, contributed $165,000…
SUCCESSION: The influence of delusions
CASE: Croft v Sanders [2019] NSWCA 303When Warwick Croft made his last Will in 2013, he was 82 years old and suffering from delusions. He believed that four of his daughters were scheming against…
ADMINISTRATIVE What's yours is mine
CASE: Council of the Law Society of NSW v Zhukovska [2019] NSWCATOD 66Recommended by Leah Murphy (formerly Leah Johnson)Myroslava Zhukovska was the solicitor for Dulcie Barbara Heane who was elderly…
CRIME: Bourke Street car attack
CASE: DPP v Gargasoulas [2019] VSC 87WARNING: Disturbing content of murder, violence and drug use.On the 20 January 2017, around 1.30pm James Gargasoulas drove a Holden Commodore into the pedestrian…
ELDER LAW: A change of Will
CASE: In the Estate of McFadyen [2015] ACTSC 2019In 2014, 64-year-old Shenee McFadyen was visited by an old work colleague, AB. Within the short two-week visit, AB took Shenee to a solicitor to do a…
SUCCESSION: Moral forfeiture
CASE: Straede v Eastwood [2003] NSWSC 280In August 2000, John Straede was driving his wife Cheryl to work. He overtook the car in front of him on a hill and collided with an oncoming vehicle. Cheryl…
ELDER LAW: Financial abuse
CASES: GYM [2017] WASAT 136 & KRM [2017] WASAT 135By 2016, GYM and KRM has been married for over 60 years, had three adult sons and several grandchildren. They also owned a farm worth over $1.6…
HALLOWEEN SPECIAL
Let's celebrate the best holiday of the year with some funny Halloween legal cases! Thanks to Matt, my co-host for this episode <3
CRIME: The straw man duality
CASE: R v Sweet [2021] QDC 216Kym Anthony Sweet was charged with committing two criminal drug offences. He argued that he couldn't be charged because he consists of two separate entities: There was…
SUCCESSION: Executors can't hide
CASE: Suzanne Dale Smith by her next friend the Public Trustee -v- Marion Kathryn Partridge as executor of the Estate of Thomas Smith [2018] WASC 128Marion was the executor of her late father Thomas…
CIVIL: A busy bookkeeper
CASE: Napier Keen Pty Ltd v Smith [2023] NSWSC 1134Beverley was a bookkeeper for the law firm Keen Lawyers for 16 years. After Beverley resigned, her boss Mr Keen discovered that Beverley had been…
CONTRACT: The mistress contract
CASE: Ashton v Pratt (No 2) [2012] NSWSC 3Madison Ashton provided escort services to the late Richard Pratt, a married man of exceptional wealth. She would provide such services from time to time and…
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