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Cairns local saves house with help of firm
Holding Redlich senior associate has helped save the home of a Cairns resident.
Naomi Neilson
Firm: Holding Redlich (Robyn Hausler)
Value: Undisclosed.
Area: Property and real estate.
Key players: Senior associate James Harding helped Ms Hausler.
Deal significance: Following a 12-month saga, Holding Redlich helped Ms Hausler in saving her home of 21 years after a bankruptcy technicality in 2013 resulted in seeing her pay the mortgage, rates and expenses on her property for six years, despite not legally owning it.
The firm said the anomaly “flew under the radar for many years”. A Federal Court in Brisbane last week found that despite the legal interest being vested in the Crown, Ms Hausler had established an ongoing connection to the property, which was sufficient to warrant legal ownership vesting back with her subject to the interests of mortgage.
Mr Harding said of the case: “This is the first case of its kind in Australia given the peculiar mistake of law by all the parties involved. Certainly without the legal expertise or means to challenge the situation, Robyn would have lost her home and the value she had built up in it.”
Naomi Neilson
Naomi Neilson is a senior journalist with a focus on court reporting for Lawyers Weekly.
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