Slaveski v Nanevski Developments Pty Ltd

• 1. Partnerships
  2. › Winding up
  3. › Accounts
  4. › Characterisation of advances
  5. › Whether monies advanced were contributions to partnership then loaned to partner or direct loan outside partnership
  6. › Application of Occam's Razor where parties not manifesting legal sophistication
  7. › Partnership Act 1892 (NSW), s 24(1)
• 1. Appeal
  2. › Appeal from findings of fact
  3. › Proof of undocumented payments of large sums of cash
  4. › Inherent unlikelihood of payment of very large sums in physical cash for commercial transaction
  5. › Whether primary judge's acceptance of witness evidence should be overturned
• 1. Appeal
  2. › Appeal from findings of fact
  3. › Whether appellants established error in finding where documented payment of $200,000 was not disputed
  4. › Whether allocation of payment to one partnership property rather than another made any difference to accounting process
• 1. Contract
  2. › Remedies
  3. › Declarations
  4. › Pleadings
  5. › Whether claimed contractual entitlement to consultancy fees was pleaded or fairly raised in proceedings
  6. › Dare v Pulham (1982) 148 CLR 658

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