Izaz Khan

Barrister

Tel:  (02) 9232 1371          Fax:  (02) 9221 4196

Email:   ikhan@13wentworthselbornechambers.com.au

Admitted to Practice

NSW, High Court and Fiji

Memberships

NSW Bar Association
Australian Advocacy Institute

Appointments

Izaz was appointed a judge of the Court of Appeal in Fiji by the President. He remains a Barrister in Sydney and sits as a court of appeal judge four times a year in Suva for periods of up to a month.

Special Interests

Vendor & Purchaser Contract
All aspects of Land Law and contract law

Publications

Journal Articles:

"No Easy Way Through" - 48 LSJ 64

"Liability for Unkept Promise of a Gift" - Law Society Journal Volume 47 pp. 60

"Deposit or unenforceable penalty?" - Law Society Journal 45 (4) May 2007 : 68-69

"Implied easements under Torrens System" - Law Society Journal 45 (2) Match 2007 : 58-59

"Everything reasonable: vendor's obligation to register the plan" - Law Society Journal (43) 5 June 2005 : 64-66

"Granting easements under section 88K" - Law Society Journal 39 (3) April 2001 : 55-57

"Annexed to the land: fixtures: state of play" - Law Society Journal 38 (6) July 2000 : 62-65

"Illegal structures after Carpenter v McGrath" - Law Society Journal 37 (8) September 1999 : 53-55

"Right of pre-emption" - Law Society Journal 36 (8) September 1998 : 54-58

"Contaminated land" - Law Society Journal 35 (4) May 1997 : 37-39

"Extending a limitation period: what is required?" - Law Society Journal 34 (9) October 1996 : 50-53

"Misrepresentation in land transactions: available remedies explained" - Law Society Journal 33 (4) May 1995 : 48-52

"Forfeiture of leases for repudiation: how should termination be effected?" - Law Society Journal 31 (1) February 1993 : 46-49

"The unregistered interest and caveats in the Torrens system." - Law Society Journal 29 (10) November 1991 : 65-66, 68-69

"Repudiation of contracts : the implications of Foran v Wight for conveyancing transactions" - Sydney: Committee for Postgraduate Studies in the Dept. of Law, 1990.

"The requirement of readiness by the rescinding party" - Law Society Journal 28 (4) May 1990 : 36-39

"Conditional contracts" - Law Society Journal 27 (5) June 1989 : 56-58

"The notice to complete: a double edged sword to be treated with the greatest of care" - Law Society Journal 27 (11) December 1989 : 56-60

"Illegal structures" - Law Society Journal 23 (11) December 1985 : 829-833

" Recent developments in conveyancing law" - St. Leonards, N.S.W. : Continuing Legal Education Dept., College of Law, 1984.

"Requisitions and objections" - Law Society Journal 22 (6) July 1984: 350-353

"Conveyancing : the law relating to deposits" - Kensington, N.S.W.: University of New South Wales Faculty of Law, 1981

"The Banaban People ... An Example of Pacific Micro-nationalism: the Banaban case" - Lawasia 1:129-54 1980, bibl. 96- 103

Seminar paper
"Effects of termination" - Repudiation of contracts seminar, Monday 19 June, 1989 [Sydney] : University of Sydney, Committee for Post-Graduate Studies in the Dept. of Law, 1989

Book
"Chainbreaker" - Kirribilli N.S.W.: Eldorado, 1993

Editorial Service
"Butterworths conveyancing service NSW casenotes" - editors, P.W. Young, Izaz M. Khan, C.J. Rossiter - Sydney : Butterworths, 1986 -

Izaz has been a prolific contributor of articles to the Law Society Journal over the last 25 years. He has been briefed in many important equity cases. An example is Foran V. Wight (1989). 168 CLR 385 which is a landmark case on the issue of the rescinding parties readiness and ability to perform the contract at the time of the rescission.

He was also counsel for the purchaser in the more recent decision of the NSW C/A in Williams v. STA and Anson City Developments Pty Ltd. (2004) 60 NSWLR 286 which had to deal with interesting questions relating to prescriptive easements and whether they could apply to Torrens system land.