Browne v Dunn
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Judgment Date | 28 November 1893 |
| Judgment citation (vLex) | [1893] UKHL J1128-1 |
| Court | House of Lords |
| Date | 28 November 1893 |
Browne
and
Dunn.
[1893] UKHL J1128-1
House of Lords
1
After hearing Counsel for the Appellant, as well on Friday last as yesterday and this day, upon the Petition and Appeal of James Loxham Browne, of Woodbine Cottage, The Vale, Hampstead, in the county of Middlesex, praying, That the matter of the Order set forth in the Schedule thereto, namely, an Order of Her Majesty's Court of Appeal, of the 7th of March 1893, might be reviewed before Her Majesty the Queen in Her Court of Parliament, and that the said Order might...
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... ... In that case, Lord Browne-Wilkinson endorsed this passage from the judgment of Peter Gibson J in the Court of Appeal ( [1993] STC 360 , at 366): “For my ... Corpn v Zipher Ltd [2005] RPC 31 , where the Court of Appeal cited from the obscurely-reported decision of the House of Lords in Browne v Dunn (1894) 6 R 67 via an Australian decision, Allied Pastoral Holdings Pty Ltd v Federal Comr of Taxation 44 ALR 607 ... In the Allied Pastoral case, ... ...
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2 firm's commentaries
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Property & Projects - What's News in Property & Projects - 26 June 2012
...– Reliability of Plaintiffs' witnesses – application of Jones v Dunkel [1959] HCA 8; (1959) 101 CLR 298 – application of Browne v Dunn (1893) 6 R 67 (HL) – Evidence Act 2008 (Vic) s 140. Joseph Street Pty Ltd & Ors v Tan & Ors [2012] VSCA 113 CONTRACT – Sale of land – Specific perfo......
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Work Health & Safety - What's News - 5 August 2014
...v Briginshaw [1938] HCA 34; (1938) 60 CLR 336 - whether the Tribunal erred in not requiring compliance with the rule in Browne v Dunn (1894) 6 R 67 - whether notice was given in any event satisfying the rule in Brown v Dunn and affording the appellant procedural fairness. EVIDENCE - rules o......
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Litigation
...this principle is commonly known as the rule in Browne v Dunn , after the Scottish appeal to the House of Lords in Browne v Dunn (1893) 6 R 67; as to which see, eg, Seymour v Australian Broadcasting Commission (1990) 19 NSWLR 219; Leighton Contractors Pty Ltd v CE Heath Underwriting & Agenc......
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Table of Cases
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