Attorney-General (Nt) v Kearney
| Jurisdiction | Australia Federal only |
| Neutral Citation | 1985-0925 HCA A,[1985] HCA 60 |
| Date | 1985 |
| Court | High Court |
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...J). (76) British American Tobacco Australia Ltd v Gordon [2009] VSC 619 (24 December 2009) [158] (Kaye J), quoting A-G (NT) v Kearney (1985) 158 CLR 500, 514 (Gibbs CJ). See also British American Tobacco Australia Ltd v Gordon [2009] VSC 77 (27 March 2009) [23]-[25] (Byrne (77) See Matthew ......
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...commission of acrime or fraud. Therefore, communications for such purposes (‘iniquity’) are notprotected.In Attorney-General vKearney (1985) 158 CLR 500 the High Court of Australiaexpanded the ‘iniquity’ exception to include a deliberate abuse of statutory power.This decision is the provena......
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...are committed deliberately and as part of a deliberate plan to defy the law. See Attorney-General for the Northern Territory v Kearney (1985) 158 CLR 500. Alternatively, as Doyle CJ put it in Southern Equities Corp Ltd v Arthur Anderson & Co (1997) 70 SASR 166 at 174: ‘fraud in this context......