ON 1 FEBRUARY 1955, the six o’clock swill was abolished by the NSW Liquor (Amendment) Act 1954.
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1954 | Brown v Board of Education
ON THIS DAY in 1954, the US Supreme Court delivered Brown v Board of Education, a ruling which ended racial segregation in US schools by holding that state sanctioned segregation was a violation of the 14th amendment.
The Convention relating to the Status of Refugees 1951
ON 22 APRIL 1954, the Convention relating to the Status of Refugees commenced.
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Scott v Numurkah Corporation [1954] HCA 14
ON 14 APRIL 1954, the High Court of Australia delivered Scott v Numurkah Corporation [1954] HCA 14; (1954) 91 CLR 300 (14 April 1954).
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Andrews v Hogan [1952] HCA 37
ON 31 JULY 1952, the High Court of Australia delivered Andrews v Hogan [1952] HCA 37; (1952) 86 CLR 223 (31 July 1952).
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Luxton v Vines [1952] HCA 19
ON 4 April 1952, the High Court of Australia delivered Luxton v Vines [1952] HCA 19; (1952) 85 CLR 352 (4 April 1952).
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“In questions of this sort, where direct proof is not available, it is enough if the circumstances appearing in evidence give rise to a reasonable and definite inference: they must do more than give rise to conflicting inferences of equal degrees of probability so that the choice between them is mere matter of conjecture: see per Lord Robson, Richard Evans & Co. Ltd. v. Astley (1911) AC 674, at p 687. But if circumstances are proved in which it is reasonable to find a balance of probabilities in favour of the conclusion sought then, though the conclusion may fall short of certainty, it is not to be regarded as a mere conjecture or surmise: cf. per Lord Loreburn (1911) AC, at p 678″. (at p358)”
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Alford v Magee [1952] HCA 3
ON 5 MARCH 1952, the High Court of Australia delivered Alford v Magee [1952] HCA 3; (1952) 85 CLR 437 (5 March 1952).
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1951 | Suitor’s Fund Act 1951
ON 1 NOVEMBER 1951, the NSW Suitor’s Fund Act 1951 commenced.
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McRae v Commonwealth Disposals Commission [1951] HCA 79
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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Kemp v R [1951] HCA 39
ON 17 JULY 1951, the High Court of Australia delivered Kemp v R [1951] HCA 39; (1951) 83 CLR 341 (17 July 1951).
The accused had been indicted on three counts of indecent assault and acquitted of two. A new trial was held for the third, resulting in conviction.
During the new trial, the complainant gave evidence of similar acts consisting of offences on two occasions prior to the third. The High Court held that the evidence was not admissible as it may have included the two counts of which the accused had been acquitted.
Accordingly, the court held that the conviction could not stand. Instead of ordering a new trial, the court ordered that the conviction be quashed as the accused had served nearly two years of the sentence.
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