ON 28 AUGUST 2014, the NSW Court of Appeal dismissed a summons for leave to appeal by Stephen Dank against orders of the Supreme Court of NSW to dismiss his defamation claims against two of six defendants (the Cronulla Sharks club and their chairman) and struck out his claim against a journalist.
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ON 28 AUGUST 2014, the Royal Commission into Trade Union Governance and Corruption issued a statement advising that the lawyers for the Hon Julia Gillard have been informed of a hearing date in early September.
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ON 28 AUGUST 1958, the High Court of Australia delivered Unsworth v Commissioner for Railways [1958] HCA 41; (1958) 101 CLR 73 (28 August 1958).
An action for contribution is not in itself an action for damages but a statutory right of action assuming the existence of a liability in the party against whom the contribution is sought.
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ON 28 AUGUST 1833, the UK Parliament passed the Slavery Abolition Act 1833.
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Will4/3-4/73/contents
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ON 28 AUGUST 2008, the High Court of Australia delivered Imbree v McNeilly [2008] HCA 40 (28 August 2008).
The High Court held that an unlicensed 16 year old driver owed the same duty of care as any other driver to take reasonable care to avoid injury to others, overturning its decision in Cook v Cook [1986] HCA 73; (1986) 162 CLR 376 (2 December 1986) in which it had held that the standard of care was that which would be expected of an unqualified and inexperience driver.
Sydney, Australia
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ON 26 AUGUST 2014, the NSW Land and Environment Court delivered Griffiths v Council of the City of Sydney [2014] NSWLEC 1170.
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ON 27 AUGUST 1951, the High Court of Australia delivered McRae v Commonwealth Disposals Commission [1951] HCA 79; (1951) 84 CLR 377 (27 August 1951).
A court must determine damages as best it can. Difficulty in assessing damages does not justify non-assessment.
The defendant was ordered to pay the plaintiff damages for breach of contract, assessed as being his expenses incurred in reliance on the plaintiff’s promise to sell it a shipwrecked oil taker which was in fact, by the defendant’s mistake, a shipwrecked oil barge.
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