Australian Financial Services and Leasing Pty Ltd v Hills Industries Ltd

JurisdictionAustralia Federal only
JudgeFrench CJ.,Hayne,Crennan,Kiefel,Bell,Gageler,Keane JJ.,Gageler J.
Judgment Date07 May 2014
Neutral Citation[2014] HCA 14
Docket NumberS163/2013
CourtHigh Court
Date07 May 2014
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    • Mondaq Australia
    • 9 June 2015
    ...Bank of Australia [1992] HCA 48; (1992) 175 CLR 353 — Australian Financial Services and Leasing Pty Limited v Hills Industries Limited [2014] HCA 14; (2014) 307 ALR 512. Owners Corporation 2 v MAV Group Pty Ltd (Building and Property) [2015] VCAT 661 Abandonment of application for joinder –......
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    ...informing themselves as to the source of payments. Footnotes 1 Australian Financial Services and Leasing Pty Ltd v Hills Industries Ltd (2014) 307 ALR 512; 88 ALJR 552; [2014] HCA 14; BC201403243. 2 Australian Financial Services & Leasing Pty Ltd v Hills Industries Ltd [2011] NSWSC 267;......
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    ...(3) fourth defendant liable to restore stolen funds to plaintiffs - Australian Finance Services Leasing Pty Ltd v Hills Industries Ltd [2014] HCA 14; (2014) 253 CLR 560, 568 [1], 593 [66]-[67], 602-3 [97]-[98], 625-6 [157]; Southage Pty Ltd v Vescovi [2015] VSCA 117; (2015) 321 ALR 383, 399......
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  • The 2017 Winterton Lecture. Sir Owen Dixon Today
    • Australia
    • University of Western Australia Law Review No. 43-1, January 2018
    • 1 January 2018
    ...Pilate (1965) 152, 164. 104 (2014) 251 CLR 505, [79]-[86], [90]-[92]; [2014] HCA 19. 105 (2014) 253 CLR 560, [85]-[87], [149]-[151]; [2014] HCA 14. 106 [2016] HCA 26, [139]-[141]. 107 (1939) 63 CLR 649; [1939] HCA 3. 108 (1998) 194 CLR 395, [113]; [1998] HCA v Jones109offers”, and Gaudron, ......
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    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 2018, December 2018
    • 1 December 2018
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  • TAKING STOCK OF THE CHANGE OF POSITION DEFENCE
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 2015, December 2015
    • 1 December 2015
    ...30[2013] 3 SLR 801 at [170]. 31 Hanoch Dagan, The Law and Ethics of Restitution (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004) at p 48. 32[2014] HCA 14. 33Australian Financial Services and Leasing Pty Ltd v Hills Industries Ltd[2014] HCA 14 at [84]. 34 James Edelman, “Change of Position: A D......

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