Mentink v Olsen

• 1. Equity
  2. › Unconscionable conduct
  3. › Special disadvantage
  4. › Terminal illness and dependency on recipient
  5. › Whether unconscientious advantage taken
  6. › Whether gift fair, just and reasonable
  7. › Onus on recipient to establish fairness
• 1. Equity
  2. › Unconscionable conduct
  3. › Gifts
  4. › Large inter vivos gift by terminally ill donor to carer
  5. › Whether donor's decision product of free and informed judgment
  6. › Absence of independent advice
• 1. Equity
  2. › Undue influence
  3. › Relationship of dependency
  4. › Parent and child
  5. › Whether findings of undue influence supported by evidence
• 1. Equity
  2. › Defences
  3. › Estoppel by convention
  4. › Change of position
  5. › Whether available where transaction set aside for unconscionable conduct

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