A statutory entitlement to compensation for compulsory acquisition of land under the Land Administration Act 1997 (WA) is not assignable, whether at law under s 20 of the Property Law Act 1969 (WA) or under the general law, because the legislative scheme in Part 10 of the LA Act impliedly precludes assignment by limiting the entitlement to the person whose interest in land was taken. An offer of compromise expressed as inclusive of costs is a single indivisible offer incapable of triggering the presumptive costs consequences under O 24A r 10(5) of the Rules of the Supreme Court 1971 (WA), because those subrules can only operate where an offer is exclusive of costs.
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