New edition of ‘Mortgagee’s Power of Sale’ published

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ROBERT HAY QC COMMERCIAL LAW BARRISTER

The latest edition of The Mortgagee’s Power of Sale has been published by LexisNexis  Now in its fourth edition this book started life in 1980. The book is primarily written for practitioners and the text is arranged, as far as possible, in the same chronological order as the steps a mortgagee may take in

High Court affirms traditional test for enforcing oral contracts based on acts of part performance

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ROBERT HAY QC COMMERCIAL LAW BARRISTER

The High Court has resisted an invitation to expand the grounds on which a party can enforce an oral contract for the sale of the land on the ground of part performance.

Legislation in each State and Territory requires that contracts for the sale of land meet certain formal requirements

Error in earlier post

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ROBERT HAY QC COMMERCIAL LAW BARRISTER

In the post of earlier today I referred to the Justice Legislation Miscellaneous Amendment Bill 1990; the reference should have been to the Justice Legislation Miscellaneous Amendment Bill 2018.