Comlin Holdings Pty Ltd v Metlej Developments Pty Ltd (No 3)

• 1. Contract
  2. › Formation of contract
  3. › Partnership or joint venture
  4. › Oral agreement alleged
  5. › Development of land
  6. › Alleged promise to pay 20% of profits
  7. › Delay in making claim and bringing proceedings
  8. › Whether agreement established on the evidence
• 1. Equity
  2. › Equitable fraud
  3. › Claim depending on existence of underlying agreement
  4. › Whether equitable fraud established where underlying agreement not proved
  5. › Pallant v Morgan [1953] Ch 43
• 1. Evidence
  2. › Adverse inference
  3. › Failure to call witness
  4. › Jones v Dunkel inference
  5. › Absence of witness not explained
  6. › Whether corroborative evidence admissible
  7. › Whether evidence available for other purposes
  8. › Evidence Act 1995 (NSW), ss 60, 108

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