Australian Safewaystores Pty Ltd v Zaluzna

JurisdictionAustralia Federal only
Neutral Citation1987-0310 HCA B,[1987] HCA 7
Date1987
CourtHigh Court
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  • Neindorf v Junkovic
    • Australia
    • High Court
    • 8 December 2005
    ...not until the 1980s that the common law of Australia abandoned the approach described by Professor Fleming. In 1987, in Australian Safeway Stores Pty Ltd v Zaluzna2, this Court approved what, in 1984, had been said by Deane J in Hackshaw v Shaw3: ‘… it is not necessary, in an action in negl......
  • Vairy v Wyong Shire Council
    • Australia
    • High Court
    • 21 October 2005
    ...‘should be buried so securely that [its] perturbed spirits shall no longer vex the law.’ 19Australian Safeway Stores Pty Ltd v Zaluzna (1987) 162 CLR 479. 20Prosser and Keeton on the Law of Torts, 5th ed (1984) at 356. 21Geyer v Downs (1977) 138 CLR 91. 22Rogers v Whitaker (1992) 175 CLR 47......
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  • Government liability in negligence.
    • Australia
    • Melbourne University Law Review Vol. 32 No. 1, April 2008
    • 1 April 2008
    ...81-376; BT v Oei [1999] NSWSC 1082 (Unreported, Bell J, 5 November 1999). (175) See, eg, Australian Safeway Stores Pty Ltd v Zaluzna (1987) 162 CLR 479. Cf Modbury Triangle Shopping Centre Pry Ltd v Anzil (2000) 205 CLR 254. (176) See, eg, Howard v Jarvis (1958) 98 CLR 177; Dixon v Western ......
  • THE PROMISE OF UNIVERSALITY
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 2013, December 2013
    • 1 December 2013
    ...13 at [25]. 147 [2012] EWCA Civ 239 at [44] and [71]–[73]. 148 [2013] 3 SLR 284 at [44], [62]–[65], [98], [100], [130] and [144]. 149 (1987) 162 CLR 479. 150 For an excellent exegesis of the authorities in respect of the imposition of a non-delegable duty of care, see Woodland v The Swimmin......
  • The site
    • United Kingdom
    • Construction Law. Volume II - Third Edition
    • 13 April 2020
    ...this chapter): see Papatonakis v Australian Telecommunications Commission (1985) 156 CLr 7; Australian Safeway Stores Pty Ltd v Zaluzna (1987) 162 CLr 479; Ratclif v McConnell [1999] 1 WLr 670 (Ca); Vairy v Wyong Shire Council (2005) 223 CLr 422 at 432 [25], per Mchugh J (dissenting); Leich......
  • Case Note
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 2013, December 2013
    • 1 December 2013
    ...remains unclear. 31 British Railway Board v Herrington [1972] AC 877. 32 c 3. 33 Occupier's Liability Act (1984) (c 3) (UK) s1(3). 34 (1987) 162 CLR 479. 35 It should be noted that the High Court of Australia had long been championing the idea that ordinary principles of negligence should a......
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