05 REAL PROPERTY

Dr Stewart is a Professor at Sydney Law School and has interests in property law and equity, as well as health law. He is the co-author of Radan and Stewart, Principles of Australian Equity and Trusts, 2010; Radan, Stewart and Vicovich, Principles of Australian Equity and Trusts – Cases and Materials, 2010; Kerridge, Lowe and Stewart, Ethics and Law for the Health Professions, 2009; Stewart, Kerridge and Parker, The Australian Medico-legal Handbook, 2008; Radan, Stewart and Lynch, Equity and Trusts, 2nd ed. 2005.

To be eligible to sit for the Board’s examinations, all students must complete the LEC teaching and learning program, the first step of which is to ensure that you have registered online with the LEC in each subject for which you have enrolled with the Board. This gives you access to the full range of learning resources offered by the LEC.

Assignments as part of the Board’s Examinations

Assignment results contribute 20% to the final mark in each subject.

Assignments are assessed according to the “Assignment Grading and Assessment Criteria” outlined in the Guide to the Presentation and Submission of Assignments. Prior to the examination, assignments will be returned to students and results posted on students’ individual results pages of the LEC Webcampus. Students are responsible for checking their results screen and ascertaining their eligibility to sit for the examination.

Review

Please direct all enquiries in relation to examinations to the Legal Profession Admission Board.

Lectures in Real Property will be held on Wednesdays from 6.00pm until 9.00pm. The lectures will be held in Carslaw Lecture Theatre 373 (CLT 373). A map of the University of Sydney’s main campus showing the location of this lecture theatre can be found on p.51 of the Course Information Handbook.

Weekend School 1

Weekend School 2

Prescribed Materials

• Real Property Act 1900 (NSW)

• Conveyancing Act 1919 (NSW)

• Gray and Edgeworth, Property Law in New South Wales, LexisNexis, 2012 (forthcoming in July)

• Edgeworth, Rossiter and Stone, Sackville and Neave, Property Law: Cases and Materials, 8th ed. LexisNexis, 2008 (New edition due out in October 2012.)

• Webb and Stephenson, Land Law, 3rd ed. LexisNexis, 2009

LEC Webcampus

To obtain the Real Property assignment questions for the Summer Session 2012-13, please follow the instructions below:

1. Register online with the LEC (see page 23 of the Course Information Handbook for detailed instructions). Once you have registered, you will have access to all the facilities on the LEC Webcampus.

PRESCRIBED TOPICS AND COURSE OUTLINE

Defining Property

Moore v Regents of the University of California (1990) 793 P 2d 479

Doodeward v Spence (1908) 6 CLR 406

Fixtures

Webb v Frank Bevis [1940] 1 All ER 247

Leigh v Taylor [1902] AC 157

New Zealand Government Property Corp v H M and S [1982] 1 QB 1145

TRESPASS TO LAND

(a) Airspace

L J P Investments v Howard Chia Investments (No 2) (1991) 24 NSWLR 490

L J P Investments v Howard Chia Investments (No 3) (1991) 24 NSWLR 499

Access to Neighbouring Land Act 2000 (NSW)

Amatek Ltd v Googoorewon Pty Ltd (1993) 176 CLR 471

Yanner v Eaton [1999] HCA 53

The Commonwealth v Yarmirr; Yarmirr v Northern Territory [2001] HCA 56

Old system title

Conveyancing Act, ss 23B, 23D

(b) Equitable interests

(b) Successive equitable interests: Qui prior est tempore potior est jure

The Directors of the Shropshire Union Railways and Canal Co v R (1875) LR 7 HL 496

Northern Counties of England Fire Insurance Co v Whipp (1884) 26 Ch D 482

(d) Prior equitable interest, subsequent legal interest

(a) Actual notice

(b) Constructive notice

1. Interests to which Conveyancing Act, s 184G, applies

Darbyshire v Darbyshire (1905) 2 CLR 787

Bullen v A'Beckett (1863) 15 ER 684

(e) Bona fides

Torrens system

(1) Indefeasibility of title

Real Property Act, ss 41, 42, 43

Gibbs v Messer [1891] AC 248

(2) The register

Loke Yew v Port Swettenham Rubber Co [1913] AC 491

Breskvar v Wall (1971) 126 CLR 376

(b) Personal equities

Frazer v Walker [1967] 1 AC 569

Story v Advance Bank of Australia (1993) 31 NSWLR 722

Snowlong v Choe (1991) 23 NSWLR 198

(d) Omitted easements

Real Property Act, s 42(1)(a1)

Real Property Act, s 42(1)(b)

6. Misdescribed parcels

Mills v Renwick (1901) 1 SR (NSW) (Eq) 173

(h) Overriding statutes

Koompahtoo Local Aboriginal Land Council v LLALC Property and Investment Ltd [2008] NSWCA 6

CAVEATS AND UNREGISTERED INTERESTS

Real Property Act, ss 74F(5), 74L

Kerabee Park v Daley [1978] 2 NSWLR 222

Real Property Act, s 74H(6)

(cc) Consent

Real Property Act, ss 36(6), 74H

Re Rush and the RP Act [1963] NSWR 78

(g) Injunctions

Real Property Act, s 74R

Lapin v Abigail (1930) 44 CLR 166 at 204-5

J and H Just (Holdings) v The Bank of New South Wales (1971) 125 CLR 546

(3) Unregistered legal interests

(a) Unregistered leases

(b) "Registrable dealing"

Real Property Act, s 36

(c) "Successive effect" of Real Property Act, s 43A

Wilkes v Spooner [1911] 2 KB 473

The Directors of the Shropshire Union Railways and Canal Co v R (1857) LR 7 HL 496

(5) Volunteers

(7) Primary applications

(8) Qualified title

Co-ownership

Hickman v Peacey [1945] AC 304

Halbert v Mynar [1981] 2 NSWLR 659

(b) In equity

Delehunt v Carmody (1986) 161 CLR 464

Lyons v Lyons [1967] VR 169

Public Trustee v Hall [2003] ACTCA 27

(4) Bringing co-ownership to an end

(a) Partition

Leigh v Dickeson (1884) 15 QBD 60

Brickwood v Young (1905) 2 CLR 387

Local Government Act, s 560

(c) Accounting for rents and profits

Leases

Radaich v Smith (1959) 101 CLR 209

Isaac v Hotel de Paris [1960] 1 WLR 239

Real Property Act, s 53

Conveyancing Act, s 23D(2)

Proudfoot v Hart (1890) 25 QBD 42

Haskell v Marlow [1928] 2 KB 45

Re Gibbs and Houlder Bros and Co Ltd's Lease [1925] Ch 198

International Drilling Fluids v Louisville Investments (Uxbridge) [1986] 1 Ch 513

Easements

Re Ellenborough Park [1956] 1 Ch 131

(b) Accommodation of dominant tenement

(c) Unity of ownership and occupation

(d) Subject matter of grant

Conveyancing Act, ss 23B, 88

Real Property Act, s 47

North Sydney Printing v Sabemo Investment Corp [1971] 2 NSWLR 150

Australian Hi-Fi Publications v Gehl [1979] 2 NSWLR 618

117 York Street Pty Ltd v Proprietors of SP16123 (1998) NSW ConvR 55-859

(e) Easement created by Statute Conveyancing Act, ss 88A, 88B

Westfield Management Ltd v Perpetual Trustee Co Ltd [2007] HCA 45

(b) Implication

(4) Extinguishment of easements

Treweeke v 36 Wolseley Road (1973) 128 CLR 274

Covenants

Austerberry v Corporation of Oldham (1885) 29 Ch D 750

Halsall v Brizell [1957] Ch 169

Tulk v Moxhay (1848) 41 ER 1143

Forestview Nominees v Perpetual Trustees (1998)

Marquess of Zetland v Driver [1939] 1 Ch 1

Kerridge v Foley (1964) 82 WN (NSW) (pt 1) 293

(3) Extinguishment of covenants

(a) Operation of s 28(2) Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 (NSW)

Post Investments v Wilson (1990) 26 NSWLR 598

Mortgages

(1) Equity of redemption

Conveyancing Act, s 93

Strode v Parker (1694) 23 ER 804

Real Property Act, ss 57, 58A

(4) Duties of mortgagee when selling

Australian and New Zealand Banking Group v Bangadilly Pastoral Co (1978) 139 CLR 195

Commercial and General Acceptance v Nixon (1981) 152 CLR 491

(5) Tacking

Hopkinson v Rolt (1861) 11 ER 829