Australia, May 14 -- New South Wales Land and Environment Court issued text of the following judgement:
1. These reasons deal with costs and an ancillary issue following my decision in Harper v Harper [2024] NSWSC 1540 (Judgment) concerning a transfer of vacant land at Port Macquarie (the Land) from the plaintiff, Brenda Harper, to her son, Troy Harper and his wife Donna Harper (the defendants).
2. For the reasons given in the Judgment, I concluded that (1) the plaintiff failed to establish that she was entitled to an equitable lien for the balance of the purchase price of $407,200 for the sale of the Land based, as pleaded, on an oral agreement for the sale of the Land for a purchase price of $540,000 reached at the end of September 2022...