Peters v NT

[2025] NTSC 71

Supreme Court of the Northern Territory

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1. Party under disability
2. › compromise of claim
3. › management of settlement amount ordered to be held on trust by private trustee
4. › Parens patriae jurisdiction
5. › whether person continuing to be under disability
6. › power of Court to inquire as to whether person remains under a disability and whether now capable of managing financial affairs
7. › test to be applied
8. › termination of trust and direction to trustee to pay settlement to plaintiff
1. Supreme Court Rules 1987 (NT), 15.08, 79.05
1. [name withheld] (by his next friend [name withheld]) v The Public Trustee [2003] WASC 72; Re Erdogan’s Application [2012] VSC 256; (2012) 36 VR 579; CJ v AKJ [2015] NSWSC 498; Renehan v Leeuwin Ocean Adventure Foundation Ltd [2006] NTSC 28; referred to.
1. [name withheld], ‘The Incapacitated Plaintiff and Personal Injury Compensation Proceedings’, Paper given at the New South Wales Bar Association: Personal Injury and Common Law Conference, Sydney, 11 March 2017.