Official Assignee v Westpac Banking Corporation - [1990] 3 NZLR 545

Commercial law — Chattels transfer — Registration — Validity of registration — Grantee registered original instrument with statutory certificate annexed — Certificate contained defects — Whether when original instrument was registered the certificate was necessary — Whether defects in certificate invalidated registration — Chattels Transfer Act 1924, s 5.

Practice and procedure — Parties — Third parties — Official Assignee alleged that registered instrument by way of security was invalid — Grantee of instrument sought leave to join its solicitor as third party — Whether issues between Official Assignee and grantee were the same as those between grantee and its solicitor — Whether leave should be granted.