Trustee of the Property of Geoffrey Mahony and Deborah Mahony& Ors v McElroy & Ors

• 1. Practice and Procedure
  2. › Amendment of pleadings
  3. › Amendment after expiry of limitation period
  4. › Joinder of new party after limitation period
  5. › Whether power to amend under Queensland law extends outside limitation period
  6. › Supreme Court of Queensland Act 1991 (Qld), s 81
  7. › Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 1999 (Qld), rr 69, 375, 376, 387
• 1. Constitutional Law (Cth)
  2. › Federal jurisdiction
  3. › Application of State laws
  4. › Judiciary Act 1903 (Cth), s 79
  5. › Whether Commonwealth law otherwise provides
  6. › Whether State procedural rules for amendment outside limitation period irreconcilable with Commonwealth limitation provision
  7. › Trade Practices Act 1974 (Cth), s 82(2)
• 1. Limitation of Actions
  2. › Trade Practices Act claims
  3. › Nature of limitation period in s 82(2) Trade Practices Act 1974 (Cth)
  4. › Whether limitation period bars remedy or extinguishes right
  5. › Whether State amendment provisions picked up as surrogate Commonwealth law
• 1. Trusts
  2. › Trustee's right of indemnity
  3. › Right of indemnity against trust assets
  4. › Vesting in trustee in bankruptcy
  5. › Whether claim based on right of indemnity constitutes new cause of action
  6. › Bankruptcy Act 1966 (Cth), ss 58, 116

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