Proietti v Proietti

• 1. Appeal
  2. › From findings of fact
  3. › Credibility findings
  4. › Whether glaring improbability or compelling inferences to the contrary demonstrated
  5. › Fox v Percy (2003) 214 CLR 118
• 1. Practice and Procedure
  2. › Procedural fairness
  3. › Self-represented litigants
  4. › Proceedings commenced by summons
  5. › Whether absence of pleadings, directions hearings, or mediation constituted denial of procedural fairness
  6. › Civil Procedure Act 2005 (NSW), ss 26, 56, 57(1), 62(4)
• 1. Practice and Procedure
  2. › Bias
  3. › Actual and apprehended bias
  4. › Whether findings against party on nearly every issue demonstrated bias
  5. › Whether description of case as 'unremarkable' demonstrated prejudgment
  6. › Michael Wilson & Partners Ltd v Nicholls (2011) 244 CLR 42
• 1. Land Law
  2. › Co-ownership
  3. › Statutory trust for partition
  4. › Appointment of trustees under s 66G
  5. › Defences based on proprietary estoppel, promissory estoppel, and contract
  6. › Conveyancing Act 1919 (NSW), s 66G

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