Jaensch v Coffey
Jurisdiction | Australia Federal only |
Judgment Date | 1984 |
Neutral Citation | [1984] HCA 52,1984-0820 HCA E |
Date | 1984 |
Court | High Court |
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108 cases
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Kelly v Hennessy
...I.L.R.M. 689. Hinz v. Berry [1970] 2 Q.B. 40; [1970] 2 W.L.R. 684; [1970] 1 All E.R. 1074. Jaensch v. Coffey (1984) 115 C.L.R. 549; 54 A.L.R. 417. McLoughlin v. O'Brian [1983] 1 A.C. 410; [1982] 2 W.L.R. 982; [1982] 2 All E.R. 298. Mullally v. Bus Éireann éireann [1992] I.L.R.M. 722. Appeal......
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Warren Harford v Electricity Supply Board
...was sustained ‘through the medium of the eye or the ear without direct contact’. Certainly Brennan J, in his judgment in Jaensch v. Coffey 155 CLR 549, 567, recognised: ‘A psychiatric illness induced by mere knowledge of a distressing fact is not compensable; perception by the plaintiff of ......
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Curran v Cadbury (Ireland) Ltd
...no public policy that the plaintiff's claim, if substantiated should be excluded" (p.262) echoing Gibbs C.J. in Jaensch -v- Coffey( (1984) 155 C.L.R. 549, at p.556). He quoted Lord Russell of Killowen in McLoughlin -v- O'Brian, supra), who rejected the floodgates argument in that case. In M......
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5 books & journal articles
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Sticks, Stones and Words: Emotional Harm and the English Criminal Law
...Civ 331, (2006) 103(16) LSG 24.42 Bunyan v Jordan (1937) 57 CLR 1; Hinz v Berry [1970] 2 QB 40 at 42 (LordDenning MR); Jaensch v Coffey (1984) 155 CLR 549 at 587 (Deane J); Attia v BritishGas plc [1988] 1 QB 304 at 311 (Dillon LJ); Calveley v Chief Constable of Merseyside[1989] AC 1228 at 1......
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The Law of Bureaucratic Negligence in South Africa: A Comparative Commonwealth Perspective
...179 CLR 520 at 541 (HCA).53Home Office v Dorset Yacht [1970]AC 1004 at 1027 (HL).54[1932] AC 562 (HL) at 580.55Cf Jaensch v Coffey (1984) 155 CLR 549 at 607; McHugh ‘Neighbourhood, proximityand reliance’ in Finn (ed) Essays on torts (1989) 5 at 38; Corbett ‘Areformulation of the right tore......
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Nervous approach to nervous shock: a critical evaluation of the contemporary irish jurisprudence governing claims for damages for negligently inflicted psychiatric injury
...2013) [17.55]. 9 Kelly v Hennessy [1993] ILRM 530, 532. 10 ibid. 11 ibid. at 531. 12 Kelly v Hennessy (n 5) [24]. 13 Jaensch v Coffey [1984] HCA 52; Kelly v Hennessy (n 5) [25-44]. 14 ibid. 15 ibid [62], [113-114]. 16 ibid [60]. 17 This seems to be largely in line with the control mechanism......
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NEGLIGENCE LIABILITY TO PRIMARY VICTIMS OF PSYCHIATRIC ILLNESS
...110. 14 Supra Note 15. 15 Supra Note 7 at 420. 16 Supra Note 1 at 104. 17 Supra Note 17. 18 Per Mr Justice Brennan in Jaensch v Coffey(1984) 54 A.L.R. 417 at 431. 19 Per Lord Lloyd in Page v Smith at 110. 20 See McLoughlin v O’Brian and Alcock v Chief Constable of South Yorkshire Police. 21......
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