Recent Cases

Ippin Textiles Pty Ltd v Winau Aust Pty Ltd [2021] NSWCA 9 (12 February 2021) (Macfarlan JA at [1]; Leeming JA at [48]; Brereton JA at [80])


Catchwords:


LAND LAW – Torrens title – indefeasibility of title – fraudster procured execution and registration of mortgages purportedly on behalf of mortgagor – whether mortgages properly construed secure anything against the lands

LAND LAW – Torrens title – indefeasibility of title – effect of acknowledgment of receipt of payment in registered mortgage – acknowledgment prima facie evidence of receipt but must yield to the facts as proved – no advance actually made to mortgagor due to intervention of fraudster

LAND LAW – Torrens title – indefeasibility of title – whether an unregistered document can be incorporated by reference into a registered mortgage – existence of Special Condition in registered mortgage excluding unregistered document where void – unregistered document void due to fraud