NSW government pays $9000 for land titles mixup but still denies liability a decade later

Robert Mitrevski in Adamstown yesterday. He says the years of worry about 'the injustice' he had suffered through no fault of his own had weighed on him mentally. Picture by Peter Lorimer

IT has taken since 2009, but Adamstown man Robert Mitrevski has finally received $9000 in legal costs from the NSW government after a Land Titles Office mixup saw a house he owned at Jesmond almost seized by creditors chasing another Robert Mitrevski in Sydney.

In its written offer of August 26 the Office of the Registrar General agrees a writ was "erroneously recorded" over Mr Mitrevski's property but says the Registrar General is of the view it was not the fault of the Land Titles Office".