Groote Eylandt Aboriginal Trust Inc & Anor v Deloitte, Touche Tohmatsu & Ors [No 2]

[2017] NTSC 4

Supreme Court of the Northern Territory

Built by Barristers,
For Australian Law.

1. Interpretation
2. › trusts
3. › trust deeds
4. › same approach as for construction of contracts
5. › intention as revealed in the words used
6. › resort to extrinsic evidence
1. Trusts
2. › charitable trusts
3. › legal principles
4. › Pemsel categories
5. › trusts for purposes not persons
1. Trusts
2. › charitable trusts
3. › benefit of the public or section of the public
4. › class of potential beneficiaries
5. › tests in Re Compton and Oppenheim
6. › whether potential beneficiaries are defined by reference to a single propositus or several propositii
7. › Aboriginal clans are a section of the public
8. › no difference where non residents are excluded
1. Trusts
2. › charitable trusts
3. › trusts for the relief of poverty
4. › trusts must be solely for the relief of poverty if not for the benefit of the public or a section of the public
5. › Dingle exception