Latest 2026 Property and Commercial Law Notes – HD + Pinpoints

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What’s in them - All five topics in the same order as the course (list below), with each section matching the Learning Guide headings so you can find things quickly - A problem-question scaffold for each area. For example, Topic 1 opens with a checklist for working out what interest a party holds, then takes you through legal interests, equitable interests and priorities in the order you’d write them - Cases with full citations and pinpoints, plus worked tutorial answers for the PPSA security interest problems - All the prescribed readings, including ones older notes on here won’t have: Manton v Parabolic, DKLR, CPT Custodian, PT v Maradona, Wilkes v Spooner and the Goode article on what counts as property What’s been updated - Torrens: paper certificates of title were abolished in NSW in October 2021. A lot of older notes still treat them as current, including for mortgages by deposit of title deeds - Native title: now properly covered, with Cooper v Stuart, Wik, Yorta Yorta, Fejo and WA v Brown alongside Mabo - Recent developments ( electronic deeds (s 38A); the part performance test in Pipikos v Trayans; the Sale of Goods Act bulk goods rule (s 25A); the Forge appeal on fixtures under the PPSA; the UK’s 2025 digital assets legislation, which changes the “no third category” rule from Colonial Bank v Whinney; Corrected cases that are commonly misstated in notes on here: Equuscorp v Haxton, Eastern Distributors v Goldring and Simpson v Norfolk Colour coded so you can find things fast in the exam - Plum italics = case names - Navy = legislation - Teal = key principles - Red = the things you can’t afford to get wrong Topics 1. (A) The Concept and Function of Property and (B) Introduction to Real Property – including fixtures, native title, legal and equitable interests, Old System and Torrens 2. Personal Property – Choses in Possession (ownership, possession, finding, gifts, sale of goods, bailment) 3. Personal Property – Choses in Action (trusts, deceased estates, assignability) 4. Assignment and Disposition of Interests 5A. Priority Regimes 5B. Commercial Dealings as Security Interests over Property (PPSA)