Invercargill City Council v Hamlin
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Court | Privy Council |
| Judgment Date | 12 February 1996 |
| Date | 12 February 1996 |
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133 cases
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Promet Engineering (Singapore) PTE Ltd v Sturge and Others (The Nukila)
...and the accrual of causes of action, for example, Pirelli v Oscar Faber [1983] 2 AC 1, Murphy v Brentwood DC [1991] 1 AC 398 and Invercargill CC v Hamlin [1996] AC 624. I agree that these authorities do not help. They are addressing a different and far more difficult problem. The question i......
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Couch v The Attorney-General
... [2002] 2 AC 122 at [63] per Lord Nicholls. 155 See for example Australian Consolidated Press Ltd v Uren [1969] 1 AC 590 (PC); Invercargill City Council v Hamlin [1996] 1 NZLR 513 (PC); W v W [1999] 2 NZLR 1 (PC) and Lange v Atkinson [2000] 1 NZLR 257 156 Stephen Todd “A New Zealand Perspec......
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Cantrell v Allied Irish Banks Plc
...test, and that the same conclusion was arrived at in New Zealand, and upheld by the Privy Council in Invercargill City Council v. Hamlin [1996] A.C. 624 (“ B. Provable Injury Capable of Attracting Compensation 54 The issue arose for determination in Ireland in Hegarty. The plaintiff's claim......
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Brandley v Deane
...note that a discoverability test was preferred in New Zealand and upheld by the Privy Council in Invercargill City Council v. Hamlin [1996] A.C. 624. They also observe that the Supreme Court of Canada in Kamloops v. Nielsen [1994] 2 SCR 2 declined to follow Pirelli, considering a discovera......
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1 firm's commentaries
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Professional Negligence In The Construction Field
...has not been extended to the owners of commercial premises: Woolcock Street Investments v CDG Pty Ltd [2005] BLR 92 (Aust.) 13. [1994] 3 NZLR 513 14. [1996] A.C. 624 15. (1995) 121 DLR (4th) 193 16. [1996] 1 SLR 113 17. Kerajaan Malaysia [1993] MLJ 439; Teh Khem On v. Yeoh & Wu Developm......
8 books & journal articles
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Public or Private? Duty of Care in a Statutory Framework: Stovin v Wise in the House of Lords
...authorities arenot so intrinsically different from any other negligence action that the46 ibid.47 Invercargill City Council vHamlin [1996] AC 624 (hereafter Invercargill).48 Stovin, 399.49 ibid 401.50 See also Anns, at 754, per Lord Wilberforce.51 Stovin, 403.52 ibid 402; cf Lord Hoffmann o......
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Developing the common law: how far is too far?
...Ltd v CDG Pry Ltd (2004) 216 CLR 515, 537-42 [48]-[57] (McHugh J), 580-2 [184]-[190] (Kirby J). (8) Invercargill City Council v Hamlin [1996] AC 624, 641 (Lord Lloyd for Lords Keith, Browne Wilkinson, Mustill, Lloyd and Sir Michael Hardie Boys), citing Kamloops v Nielsen [1984] 2 (9) (1876)......
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Legal Irritants: Good Faith in British Law or How Unifying Law Ends Up in New Divergencies
...and the Role of Law in the Process of European Integration’ (1996) 2European Law Journal 125.85 Invercargill City Council vHamlin (1994) 3 NZLR 513; [1996] AC 264.86 Jacques Derrida, L’autre cap (Paris: Minuit, 1991). For such a perspective in contract law, see HughCollins, ‘European Privat......
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Defaming Politicians: The Not So Common Law
...the possibility of differences betweenthe common law in England and New Zealand is not new, see Invercargill City Council vHamlin[1996] AC 624. Nonetheless, the refusal to analyse the suitability of the Lange ruling is surprisinggiven the criticism of it by the New Zealand Law Commission in......
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