Westfield Management Limited v Perpetual Trustee Company Limited

Real property – Torrens system land - Easements - An easement granted the right to go, pass and repass for all purposes to and from the appellant's dominant tenement over the respondent's servient tenement - The appellant sought to use the easement in order to access remoter properties adjoining the dominant tenement - Whether such use was permitted by the easement.

Real property – Torrens system land - Easements - Construction - Whether the expression "to and from" encompassed access across the dominant tenement to remoter properties - Whether the expression "for all purposes" encompassed access across the dominant tenement to remoter properties.

Evidence – Torrens system land - Easements - Construction - Whether evidence was admissible regarding the intention or contemplation of the parties at the time of, or subsequent to, the grant - Relevance of the Torrens Register.

Words and phrases – "for all purposes", "to and from".

Real Property Act 1900 (NSW) – ss 31B, 96B.

Conveyancing Act 1919 (NSW) – ss 88B, 181A.