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This must be kept in mind when considering succession and estate planning involving assets held in a discretionary trust. Bare trust A bare trust is a basic trust in which trust assets are held in the name of a trustee but the beneficiary, if he or she is above 18 years of age, has the absolute right to the capital, assets and income of the trust.
AustLII was established in 1995. [1] [2] Founded as a joint program of the University of Technology Sydney and the University of New South Wales law schools, its initial funding was provided by the Australian Research Council. [3] Its public policy purpose is to improve access to justice through access to legal information. [4]
Includes NSW Court of Appeal and NSW Court of Criminal Appeal NSW Reports : NSWR: 1960-1970 New South Wales Law Reports: State Reports NSW : SR NSW: 1901-1970: New South Wales Law Reports: 1901-1950: via AustLII: Law Reports (NSW) LR (NSW) 1856–1900: via AustLII: Weekly Notes (New South Wales) WN (NSW) 1884–1987: Neutral citation: NSWSC ...
Real Property Act 1900 (NSW); [2] see also Conveyancing Act 1919 (NSW) AustLii; Transfer of Land Act 1958 (VIC) Land Titles Act 1925 (ACT) Property Law Act 1974 (QLD) Law of Property Act (NT) Real Property Act 1886 (SA) Land Titles Act 1980 (TAS) Property Law Act 1969 (WA)
The Australia Act 1986 is the short title of each of a pair of separate but related pieces of legislation: one an act of the Parliament of Australia, the other an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. In Australia they are referred to, respectively, as the Australia Act 1986 (Cth) [n 1] and the Australia Act 1986 (UK).
Prior to the Act, the succession to the throne of Australia, like all Commonwealth realms, was controlled by a system of male-preference primogeniture, [8] under which succession passed first to the monarch's or nearest dynast's legitimate sons (and to their legitimate issue) in order of birth, and subsequently to their daughters and their legitimate issue, again in order of birth, so that ...
In an important constitutional case (Sue v Hill (1999) 163 ALR 648), three justices of the High Court of Australia (the ultimate court of appeal) expressed the view that if the British Parliament were to alter the law of succession to the throne, such a change could not have any effect on the monarchy in Australia, because of the Australia Act ...
The Court of Appeal operates pursuant to the Supreme Court Act 1970 (NSW). The Court hears appeals from a variety of courts and tribunals in New South Wales, in particular the Supreme Court, the Industrial Court, the Land and Environment Court, the District Court, the Dust Diseases Tribunal, the Workers Compensation Commission, and the Government and Related Employees Appeal Tribunal. [1]