Blyth Chemicals Ltd v Bushnell

JurisdictionAustralia Federal only
Neutral Citation1933-0403 HCA A,[1933] HCA 8
Date1933
Year1933
CourtHigh Court

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57 cases
  • Concut Pty Ltd v Worrell
    • Australia
    • High Court
    • 14 December 2000
    ...anything incompatible with the due or faithful discharge of his duty to his master, the latter has a right to dismiss him’. In Blyth Chemicals Ltd v Bushnell21, in the course of considering the position of the respondent, who was the manager of the appellant's business, Starke and Evatt JJ ......
  • Hospital Products Ltd v United States Surgical Corporation
    • Australia
    • High Court
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3 firm's commentaries
  • Confidential information and departing employees - the threat from within
    • Australia
    • Mondaq Australia
    • 25 August 2013
    ...from Intellectual Property, Labour, Competition and Corporate Law, Edward Elgar Publishing, London 2013. 2Blyth Chemicals Ltd v Bushnell (1933) 49 CLR 66; 6 ALJR 457; Robb v Green [1895] 2 QB 3Which are not to any major extent wider than the duties owed by employees under the general rules ......
  • Do workers have the right to bad mouth their employers?
    • Australia
    • Mondaq Australia
    • 29 May 2014
    ...fiduciary relationship. According to Justices McTiernan and Dickson, in the High Court in Blyth Chemicals Ltd v Bushnell (1933) 49 CLR 66, this duty is breached when the conduct of an employee involves "incompatibility, conflict, or impediment, [with the duty] or be destructive of "Conduct ......
  • Travel expenses almost cost an employee $379,268.10
    • Australia
    • Mondaq Australia
    • 8 August 2021
    ...in damages. Footnotes 1 Tramways Advertising Pty Ltd v Luna Park (NSW) Ltd (1938) 38 SR (NSW) 632 2 Blyth Chemicals Ltd v Bushnell [1933] HCA 8. 3 Gates v City Mutual Life Assurance Society Ltd (1986) 160 CLR 1 at [7] and 4 Tasman Capital Pty Ltd v Sinclair [2008] NSWCA 248 at [64] and [70]......
2 books & journal articles
  • STATUTORY NORMS AND COMMON LAW CONCEPTS IN THE CHARACTERISATION OF CONTRACTS FOR THE PERFORMANCE OF WORK.
    • Australia
    • Melbourne University Law Review Vol. 42 No. 2, January 2019
    • 1 January 2019
    ...of his obligations, or is destructive of the necessary confidence between employer and employee': Blyth Chemicals Ltd v Bushnell (1933) 49 CLR 66, 81 (Dixon and McTiernan JJ), quoted in Barker (n 100) 190 [30] (French CJ, Bell and Keane (226) Barker (n 100) 185 [20] (French CJ, Bell and Kea......
  • The Disunity of Employment Law and Sentencing
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage Journal of Criminal Law, The No. 68-4, August 2004
    • 1 August 2004
    ...v Television Corp. Ltd (1976) 11 ALR 599.46 (2000) 75 ALJR 312 at para. 51. It has been suggested that Blyth Chemicals Ltd vBushnell (1933) 49 CLR 66 does not support the view that summary dismissal islimited to situations where exceptional circumstances exist: Rankin vMarine PowerInternati......