PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE -- Appeal from Master declining to order separate questions to be tried -- Principles to be applied in such appeals and in ordering separate questions under Pt 31 r2 Supreme Court Rules -- Particular application of those principles to the construction of contracts.
CONTRACTS -- Principles of construction -- Scope of resort to extrinsic evidence by way of factual matrix -- "Ambiguity" an ambiguous term.
EQUITY -- Fiduciary obligation of joint venture operator derived from being a fiduciary agent -- Relevance of contract when not the fundamental source of the fiduciary obligation.
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Case Details
Citation[1999] NSWSC 832
CourtNSWSC
JurisdictionNew South Wales
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