Bathurst City Council v PWC Properties Pty Ltd

[1998] HCA 59
Judgment date
Case number
S141/1997
Before
Gaudron, McHugh, Gummow, Hayne, Callinan JJ
Catchwords

Local government – Council resolution – Validity – Classification of land – Whether land "operational" or "community" – Whether land "subject to a trust for a public purpose".

Trusts – Charitable trust – Trust for purpose beneficial to the community – Vesting of land in local authority for purpose of publicly accessible free car park.

Trusts – Charitable trust – Enforcement – Standing.

Trusts – Charitable trust – Inappropriateness as remedial device – Availability of other adequate remedies.

Words and phrases – "trust", "public purpose", "land subject to a trust for a public purpose".

Local Government Act 1993 (NSW), ss 25, 26, Sched 7 cl 6(2).

Local Government Act 1919 (NSW), ss 518, 526.