Civil Law

Part 1 Key Cases: Baltic Shipping Co v Dillon (1993) 176 CLR 344 Koufos v C Czarnikow Ltd [1969] 1 AC 350 ####Alexander v Cambridge Credit Corp Ltd (1987) 9 NSWLR 310 Commonwealth v Amann Aviation Pty Ltd (1991) 174 CLR 64 – damages Howe v Teefy (1927) 27 SR (NSW) 301 – race horse […]

Introduction There is a strong relation between tortious and contractual liability.[1] These areas of law have been regarded as both historically and notionally interlinked, where a person should be able to bring an action in tort even though the impugned conduct also constitutes a breach of contract.[2] Courts are willing to accept that situations may

Civil Procedures and Arbitration Topic 1: The Adversarial System Chapter one Introduction Procedural law is the law which governs the conduct of proceedings before the court –“the mode of proceeding by which a legal right is enforced, as distinguished from the law which gives or defines the right – Poyser v Minors (1881) Civil Procedures