Baltic Shipping Company v Dillon
| Jurisdiction | Australia Federal only |
| Neutral Citation | 1993-0210 HCA A,[1993] HCA 4 |
| Date | 1993 |
| Court | High Court |
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168 cases
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Commissioner of Taxation v Qantas Airways Ltd
...relied upon this reasoning and claimed support for a ‘substantive approach’ to the legislation by analogy to the decision in Baltic Shipping Co v Dillon6. That litigation concerned an unsuccessful claim by a passenger for return of that part of the fare she had paid which had not been refun......
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9 firm's commentaries
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Work Health & Safety - What's News - 15 April 2014
...the contemplation of the employer - Remoteness - Hadley v Baxendale (1854) 9 Ex 341; 156 ER 145 and Baltic Shipping Company v Dillon [1993] HCA 4; (1993) 176 CLR 344 applied. Grocon & Ors v Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union & Ors (No 2) [2014] VSC 134 CONTEMPT OF COURT......
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Construction & Infrastructure - What's News - 22 January 2014
...Pty Ltd [1977] BR 447 Coshott v Fewings Joinery Pty Ltd BC 960 2970 NSWCA 15 July 1996 (unreported) Baltic Shipping Company v Dillon (1993) 176 CLR 344 Hutchinson v Harris (1978) 10 BLR 24, 37-238 Batty v Metropolitan Realisations Ltd (CA) (1978) 1 QB 554 Burke v Lunn [1976] VR 268 Bonchris......
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High Court uncaps damages for disappointment and distress in cruise ship class action
...Tours Pty Ltd [2020] HCA 17. 2 Moore v Scenic Tours Pty Ltd [2020] HCA 17 at [6]-[7]. 3 Sections 60, 61(1) and 61(2) of the ACL. 4 (1993) 176 CLR 344. 5 Baltic Shipping Company v Dillon (1993) 176 CLR 344. 6 See section 16(1) of the CLA: "No damages may be awarded for non-economic loss unle......
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Scenic Tours class action - High Court hears appeal
...the contract for the supply of the services. Both counsel took the Court to two of its earlier decisions: Baltic Shipping Company v Dillon [1993] HCA 4 in which the plaintiff, Mrs Dillon, recovered damage for disappointment and distress and physical inconvenience flowing from the cruise lin......
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4 books & journal articles
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MANN V PATERSON CONSTRUCTIONS PTY LTD: THE INTERSECTION OF DEBT, DAMAGES AND QUANTUM MERUIT.
...of Australia (1992) 175 CLR 353, 382 (Mason CJ, Deane, Toohey, Gaudron and McHugh JJ) (David Securities'); Baltic Shipping Co v Dillon (1993) 176 CLR 344, 350-1 (Mason CJ, Brennan J agreeing at 367, Toohey J agreeing at 383), 376 (Deane and Dawson JJ), 389 (McHugh J) ('Baltic (51) Mann (n 4......
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UNJUST ENRICHMENT IN AUSTRALIA: WHAT IS(N'T) IT? IMPLICATIONS FOR LEGAL REASONING AND PRACTICE.
...Kiefel JJ), Hills (n 7) 576 [16] (French CJ), 595 [74] (Hayne, Crennan, Kiefel, Bell and Keane JJ). (58) Baltic Shipping Co v Dillon (1993) 176 CLR 344, 359 (Mason CJ) ('Baltic Shipping'). See also W Cook Builders Pty Ltd (in liq) v Lumbers (2007) 96 SASR 406 ('Lumbers (Full Supreme Court)'......
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Cruise Ship Operators, Their Passengers, Australian Consumer Law and State Civil Liability Acts - Part 1
...v Horizon Holidays Ltd [1975] 3 All ER 92; Watts v Morrow [1991] 1 WLR 1421; for Australia, see Baltic Shipping Company v Dillon (1993) 176 CLR 344. The effect of the CLA reform on claims for damages for disappointment and distress is still controversial: see Sonia Walker and Kate Lewins, ‘......
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MAJOR DEVELOPMENTS IN THE LAW OF RESTITUTION
...383 per Mason, C.J., Deane, Toohey, Gaudron, McHugh, JJ. In Baltic Shipping Co. v. Dillon (The Mikhail Lermontov)(1993) 67 A.L.J.R. 228, 111 A.L.R. 289 the Court’s treatment of failure of consideration was more mechanical, but the issue was overshadowed by a competing claim for damages. See......