Amaca Pty Ltd v Ellis
| Jurisdiction | Australia Federal only |
| Judge | French CJ,Gummow,Hayne,Heydon,Crennan,Kiefel,Bell JJ |
| Judgment Date | 03 March 2010 |
| Neutral Citation | [2010] HCA 5,2010-0303 HCA B |
| Court | High Court |
| Docket Number | Matter No P13/2009 Matter No P12/2009 |
| Date | 03 March 2010 |
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25 cases
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Amaca Pty Ltd (Under NSW Administered Winding Up) v Booth
...out by the primary judge, Amaba argued that his Honour had found causation by reference to ‘a small increase in risk.’ Amaba invoked Amaca Pty Ltd v Ellis48 to contend that the small increase in risk found by his Honour could not support a finding on the balance of probabilities that exposu......
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Michael Holmes v Poeton Holdings Ltd
...and rejecting that submission, Lord Dyson MR at [34] adopted the reasoning of the High Court of Australia in Amaca Pty Ltd v Ellis (2010) 240 CLR 111, including the passage: “The issue in Bonnington Castings was whether one source of an injurious substance contributed to a gradual accumulat......
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Minister for the Environment v Sharma
...Pty Ltd v Armidale City Council (1994) 51 FCR 378 Amaca Pty Ltd v Booth [2011] HCA 53; 246 CLR 36 Amaca Pty Ltd v Ellis [2010] HCA 55; 240 CLR 111 Anns v Merton London Borough Council [1978] AC 728 Apotex Pty Ltd v Sanofi-Aventis Australia Pty Ltd [2013] HCA 50; 253 CLR 284 Australian Conse......
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6 firm's commentaries
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Australia’s High Court Allows Mesothelioma Recovery Despite the Absence of Supporting Epidemiology
...tort law. Footnotes 1 French CJ, Gummow, Hayne, Heydon and Crennan JJ 2 See Curwoods Case note of 22 December 2010 3 [1956] AC 613 4 [2010] HCA 5 5 Bonnington Castings v Wardlaw [1956] AC 613 at 621 6 [2005] NSWCA 435 also, see Curwoods Case note of 16 December 2005 7 [2009] NSWCA 258 also,......
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High Court adopts cumulative effect theory and rejects single fibre theory for mesothelioma caused by exposure to asbestos brake linings
...tort law. Footnotes 1 French CJ, Gummow, Hayne, Heydon and Crennan JJ 2 See Curwoods Case note of 22 December 2010 3 [1956] AC 613 4 [2010] HCA 5 5 Bonnington Castings v Wardlaw [1956] AC 613 at 621 6 [2005] NSWCA 435 also, see Curwoods Case note of 16 December 2005 7 [2009] NSWCA 258 also,......
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Amaca v Booth: All asbestos exposures may be deemed a cause of mesothelioma
...asbestos litigation, it will be easier to make out where there is a competing risk factor - for example smoking (Amaca Pty Limited v Ellis [2010] HCA 5) The decision raises an interesting issue as to the trigger for any insurance which might meet the claim. If all exposure is deemed causal ......
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Issues of causation in asbestos case
...by his relatively low Amaca exposure or his Background exposure. In accordance with the decision of the High Court in Amaca v Ellis (2010) 240 CLR 111, to be successful in his claim, the plaintiff had to establish, on the balance of probabilities, that the Amaca exposure caused or materiall......
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3 books & journal articles
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The 2017 Winterton Lecture. Sir Owen Dixon Today
...CLR 358; [1952] HCA 56. 18 (1963) 111 CLR 610; [1963] HCA 14. 19 [1961] AC 290. 20 (1949) 76 CLR 1, 340. 21 (2010) 240 CLR 111, [6], [70]; [2010] HCA 5. 22 ‘Science and Judicial Proceedings’ in Woinarski (ed), Jesting Pilate (1965) 11, 22. 23 (1960) 104 CLR 529, 538-9; [1960] HCA 34 of “bac......
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Factual Causation
...78 See Jane Stapleton, 'Factual Causation and Asbestos Cancers' (2010) 126 Law Quarterly Review 351 (a note on Amaca Pty Ltd v Ellis (2010) 240 CLR 111). 79 Commonwealth of Australia, above n 22, 118 (Recommendation 29(d)). 80 Civil Law (Wrongs) Act 2002 (ACT) s 45(2); Civil Liability Act 1......
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Case Note
...COMMON LAW VIEW OF CAUSATION, SCIENCE AND STATISTICAL EVIDENCE IN THE COURTROOM Amaca Pty Ltd v Ellis [2010] HCA 5 In March 2010, the Australian High Court in Amaca Ltd v Ellis [2010] HCA 5 (“Amaca”) moved assertively to clarify the approach of the Australian courts to causation in cases of......