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AGLC: Coller v Coller [1998] VSC 80
Case: [1998] VSC 80
Decision Date: 28 September 1998

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Coller v Coller [1998] VSC 80

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…h. 35 By way of a general observation, I refer to a passage from Re Crewe [1956] NZLR 315 at [323], quoted with approval in King v White [1992] 2 VR 417, which in turn was referred to with apparent approval by Blow J (as he then was) in Woolnough v Public Trustees [2005] TASSC 50 at [21]. The statement from…
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…South Wales Supreme Court, 31 July 1995, Bryson J, unreported); King v Foster (Court of Appeal, 7 December 1995, unreported) King v White [1992] 2 VR 417, 424; Shah v Perpetual Trustee Company [1981] 7 Fam LR 97 100; Gunawardena v Kanagaratnam Sri Kantha [2007] NSWSC 151; Chan v Tsui [2005] NSWSC 82].[87]…
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…323; See also, for an example of this approach in the New Zealand context, Re Sutton [1980] 2 NZLR 50 (CA). 18 See, for example, King v White [1992] 2 VR 417 (VSC); Re Z [1979] 2 NZLR 495 (CA); Re McNaughten [1976] 2 NZLR 538 (SC) at 543.…
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Citation 5

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Citation 6

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Citation 7

…th Wales Supreme Court, 31 July 1995, Bryson J, unreported); King v Foster (Court of Appeal, 7 December 1995, unreported) King v White [1992] 2 VR 417, 424; Shah v Perpetual Trustee Company [1981] 7 Fam LR 97 100; Gunawardena v Kanagaratnam Sri Kantha [2007] NSWSC 151; Chan v Tsui [2005] NSWSC 82].”…
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Citation 8

…th Wales Supreme Court, 31 July 1995, Bryson J, unreported); King v Foster (Court of Appeal, 7 December 1995, unreported) King v White [1992] 2 VR 417, 424; Shah v Perpetual Trustee Company [1981] 7 Fam LR 97 100; Gunawardena v Kanagaratnam Sri Kantha [2007] NSWSC 151; Chan v Tsui [2005] NSWSC 82].”…
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Citation 9

…New South Wales Supreme Court, 31 July 1995, Bryson J, unreported); King v Foster (Court of Appeal, 7 December 1995, unreported); King v White [1992] 2 VR 417 at 424; Shah v Perpetual Trustee Company [1981] 7 Fam LR 97 100; Gunawardena v Kanagaratnam Sri Kantha [2007] NSWSC 151; Chan v Tsui [2005] NSWSC 82.…
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Citation 10

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Citation 11

…(New South Wales Supreme Court, 31 July 1995, Bryson J, unreported); King v Foster (Court of Appeal, 7 December 1995, unreported) King v White [1992] 2 VR 417, 424; Shah v Perpetual Trustee Company [1981] 7 Fam LR 97 100; Gunawardena v Kanagaratnam Sri Kantha [2007] NSWSC 151; Chan v Tsui [2005] NSWSC 82]."…
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Citation 12

…(New South Wales Supreme Court, 31 July 1995, Bryson J, unreported); King v Foster (Court of Appeal, 7 December 1995, unreported) King v White [1992] 2 VR 417, 424; Shah v Perpetual Trustee Company [1981] 7 Fam LR 97 100; Gunawardena v Kanagaratnam Sri Kantha [2007] NSWSC 151; Chan v Tsui [2005] NSWSC 82]."…
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Citation 13

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Citation 14

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Citation 15

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Citation 16 (Para 12)

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Citation 17 (Para 1)

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Citation 18

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Citation 19

…ew South Wales Supreme Court, 31 July 1995, Bryson J, unreported; King v Foster (Court of Appeal, 7 December 1995, unreported); King v White [1992] 2 VR 417, 424; Shah v Perpetual Trustee Company [1981] 7 Fam LR 97 100; Gunawardena v Kanagaratnam Sri Kantha [2007] NSWSC 151; Chan v Tsue [2005] NSWSC 82]. 57…
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Citation 20

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Citation 21

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Citation 24

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Citation 25 (Para 1)

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Citation 26

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Citation 30 (Para 1)

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Citation 31

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Citation 33

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Citation 34

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Citation 35 (Para 1)

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Citation 39

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Citation 40 (Para 1)

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Citation 41 (Para 1)

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Citation 42 (Para 1)

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Citation 43 (Para 1)

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Citation 44

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Citation 45 (Para 1)

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Citation 46 (Para 1)

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Citation 47 (Para 1)

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Citation 48 (Para 1)

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Citation 49

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Citation 50

…93] HCA 35; Briggs v Mantz (No 2) [2014] VSC 487; Forsyth v Sinclair (No 2) [2010] VSCA 195; Re Moerth (No 2) [2011] VSC 275; King v White [1992] 2 VR 417; Youn v Frank [2011] VSC 649; Seng Hpa v Walker & Ors [2017] VSC 320…

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