About wwright lawyer ABN 94 899 580 524

My expertise is in the law of adverse possession of land in the State of New South Wales. 

I was a Senior Legal Officer at the then NSW Land TItles Office (now NSW Land Registry Services) for 15 years and have an intimate knowledge of the policies and practices of LRS and the Registrar-General in the administration of the Real Property Act 1900 and its cognate legislation. 

I have examined and determined hundreds of cases of adverse possession and have been successful in every case advanced on behalf of clients to the New South Wales Land Registry or the Courts.

The following cases are cases in which I acted for the adverse possessor and in which we were successful in the Equity Division of the Supreme Court, in the Court of Appeal and in the High Court of Australia: [WARNING The following links will take you to a different site]

Hardy v Sidoti [2020] NSWSC 1057

Sidoti v Hardy[2021] NSWCA 105

Sidoti & Anor v Hardy [2021] HCATrans 207 (3 December 2021)

Other successful adverse possession proceedings in the Supreme Court include:

Z v NSW Trustee v Guardian (20210) Unreported case of adverse possession against a co-owner.

I also act on: 

• all general title problems;
• boundary and encroachment issues; 
• dividing fences; 
• easements (creation, release, abandonment, court-ordered, ancillary rights); 
• limited and qualified title (cancellation of Qualifications and Limitations); 
• caveats (lodging, lapsing); 
• Torrens title searching; 
• strata title including termination of strata schemes (but not management); or 
• court proceedings about any of those things. 

I have additional expertise in plans of survey and identification surveys.

My experience in land law and policy includes 10 years working in the Governments of Indonesia, Bangladesh and East Timor as well as the United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations, the University fo San Francisco School of Law and The Asia Foundation. I have held teaching positions at Sydney TAFE and UNSW.

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