Funeral and Burial Instructions: Consultation Paper
Appendix A: Australian cases involving funeral and burial disputes
Victoria
Carter v The Coroners Court of Victoria [2012] VSC 561*
Dow v Hoskins [2003] VSC 206*
Gilliot v Woodlands [2006] VSCA 46
Keller v Keller (2007) 15 VR 667
Leeburn v Derndorfer [2004] VSC 172
Meier v Bell (Unreported, Supreme Court of Victoria, Ashley J, 3 March 1997)*
Threlfall v Threlfall [2009] VSC 283
New South Wales
AB v CD [2007] NSWSC 1474*
Beard v Baulkham Hills Shire Council (1986) 7 NSWLR 273
Brown v Tullock (1992) 7 BPR 15,101
Burnes v Richards (1993) 7 BPR 15,104*
Escott v Brikha (2000) NSWSC 458
Privet v Vovk [2003] NSWSC 1038
Robinson v Pine Grove Memorial Park Ltd (1986) 7 BPR 15,097
Smith v Tamworth City Council (1997) 41 NSWLR 680
Warner v Levitt (1994) 7 BPR 15,110
Northern Territory
Calma v Sesar (1992) 2 NTLR 37*
Milanka Sullivan v Public Trustee for the Northern Territory of Australia (Unreported, Supreme Court of the Northern Territory, Gallop AJ, 24 July 2002)*
Sullivan v Public Trustee for NT (Unreported, Supreme Court of the Northern Territory, Gallop AJ, 24 July 2002)
Queensland
Doherty v Doherty [2007] 2 Qd R 259
Frith v Schubert [2010] QSC 444*
Kontavainis-Hay v Hutton & Welch (Unreported, Supreme Court of Queensland, Douglas J,
12 November 2012)
Laing v Laing [2014] QSC 194
Liston v Pierpoint (Unreported, Supreme Court of Queensland, Douglas J, 15 July 2009)
Logan v Waho (Unreported, Supreme Court of Queensland, Wilson J, 4 December 2014)
Re Dempsey (Unreported, Supreme Court of Queensland, Ambrose J, 7 August 1987)
Reid v Crimp [2004] QSC 304
Re Schubert (Unreported, Supreme Court of Queensland, Byrne SJA, 5 November 2010)*
Roma v Ketchup [2009] QSC 442
Savage v Nakachi (Unreported, Supreme Court of Queensland, Byrne SJA, 10 March 2009)
Tufala v Marsden & anor [2011] QSC 222
South Australia
Jones v Dodd (1999) 73 SASR 328*
Lochowiak v Heymans & Simplicity Funerals Pty Ltd (Unreported, Supreme Court of South Australia, Debelle J, 8 August 1997)
Minister for Families and Communities v Brown [2009] SASC 86*
Reid v Love and North Western Adelaide Health [2003] SASC 214*
State of South Australia v Smith [2014] SASC 64*
Tasmania
Re An Application by the Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre Inc [2007] TASSC 5*
Western Australia
Burrows v Cramley (2002) WASC 47
Garlett v Jones [2008] WASC 292*
Joseph v Dunn [2007] WASC 238
Manktelow v Public Trustee [2001] WASC 290
Milenkovic v McConnell [2013] WASC 421
Mourish v Wynne [2009] WASC 85*
Re Bellotti v Public Trustee (Unreported, Supreme Court of Western Australia, Franklyn J,
11 November 1993)
Re Boothman; Ex Parte Trigg [1999] WASC 102
Reece v Little [2009] WASC 30*
Spratt v Hayden [2010] WASC 340*
Ugle v Bowra [2007] WASC 82*
Cases marked with an asterisk involved an Aboriginal deceased.
The Commission knows of one Australian case involving a funeral and burial dispute before 1986: In the Estate of Slattery (1909) 9 SR (NSW) 577.