Q (a pseudonym) v E Co (a pseudonym)

(2020) 383 ALR 469; [2020] NSWCA 220

NSW Court of Appeal

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Interrogate

Catchwords

1. Estoppel
2. › Proprietary estoppel
3. › Encouragement
4. › Whether conduct in establishing and implementing family business constituted encouragement or mere acquiescence
5. › Whether estoppel by encouragement or acquiescence
1. Estoppel
2. › Proprietary estoppel
3. › Nature of promise
4. › Floating or ambulatory expectation
5. › Whether expectation can attach to property acquired after initial encouragement and reliance
6. › Whether all property must be identified and owned at time of encouragement
1. Estoppel
2. › Proprietary estoppel
3. › Detrimental reliance
4. › Life-changing decisions
5. › Whether error in giving weight to hypothetical counterfactual evidence
6. › Whether countervailing benefits relevant to assessment of detriment
1. Estoppel
2. › Proprietary estoppel
3. › Relief
4. › Acceleration of inheritance expectation
5. › Conditions on relief
6. › Whether conditions necessary to do equity
7. › Whether market rent condition conceptually inconsistent with constructive trust
8. › Whether repayment of book debts should be accelerated

Quick Take

Practitioners advising on proprietary estoppel relief involving acceleration of inheritance expectations should note that conditions on relief are not limited to cases of disproportionality but flow from the limits of the claimant's equity, and that a constructive trust declared as relief does not carry the full incidents of an express trust.