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Bofinger v Kingsway Group Ltd

Judgment Cited authorities 60 Cited in 141 Precedent Map Related
JurisdictionAustralia Federal only
JudgeGummow,Hayne,Heydon,Kiefel,Bell JJ.
Judgment Date13 October 2009
Neutral Citation2009-1013 HCA C,[2009] HCA 44
CourtHigh Court
Docket NumberS161/2009
Date13 October 2009
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5 firm's commentaries
  • Competition & Consumer Law News – 5 July 2017
    • Australia
    • Mondaq Australia
    • 6 July 2017
    ...to be for own benefit - Subrogation only available absent sufficient remedy at law or in equity - Bofinger v Kingsway Group Ltd [2009] HCA 44; (2009) 239 CLR 269; Aged Care Services Pty Ltd v Kanning Services Pty Ltd [2013] NSWCA 393; (2013) 86 NSWLR 174 This publication does not deal with ......
  • Property & Projects - What's News in Property & Projects - 13 June 2012
    • Australia
    • Mondaq Australia
    • 16 June 2012
    ...no witnesses called – Tanwar Enterprises Pty Ltd v Cauchi [2003] HCA 57; (2003) 217 CLR 315, considered; Bowfinger v Kingsway Group Ltd [2009] HCA 44; (2009) 239 CLR 269; Australian Consumer Commissioner v Samton Holdings Pty Ltd (2002) 117 FCR 301; Legione v Hately [1983] HCA 11; (1983) 15......
  • What sets a contract of insurance apart from other contracts?
    • Australia
    • Mondaq Australia
    • 4 May 2016
    ...Limited v National Westminster Finance (Australia) Limited [1987] HCA 15 and, most recently, Bofinger v Kingsway Group Limited [2009] HCA 44. Clayton Utz communications are intended to provide commentary and general information. They should not be relied upon as legal advice. Formal legal a......
  • Subrogation: Further Perils For A Mortgagee
    • Australia
    • Mondaq Australia
    • 23 April 2010
    ...held by the mortgagee in priority to a subsequent registered mortgagee? The High Court decision of Bofinger v Kingsway Group Limited [2009] HCA 44 provides a warning for an unwary Case facts The Bofingers were guarantors on loans made by different lenders to a borrower. The lenders were reg......
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9 books & journal articles
  • Security for performance
    • United Kingdom
    • Construction Law. Volume II - Third Edition
    • 13 April 2020
    ...see Multiplex Construction Europe Ltd v Dunne [2017] EWhC 3073 (TCC) at [26]–[33], per Coulson J. 87 Boinger v Kingsway Group Ltd (2009) 239 CLr 269 at [53]. his “strict” approach to the interpretation of guarantees may, however, run into conlict with another rule of interpretation, namely ......
  • Insurance
    • United Kingdom
    • Construction Law. Volume III - Third Edition
    • 13 April 2020
    ...in relation to residential 2 A contract of insurance may be described as a species of indemnity: see Boinger v Kingsway Group Ltd (2009) 239 CLR 269 at [7]; Sun Alliance Ltd v Scandi Enterprises Ltd [2017] UKPC 10 at [7], per Lord Sumption (PC). Indemnities were discussed in Chapter 12. 3 A......
  • UNJUST ENRICHMENT, PROPRIETARY SUBROGATION AND UNSATISFACTORY EXPLANATIONS
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 2016, December 2016
    • 1 December 2016
    ...UKSC 66 at [45]–[46]. 56 Peter Millett, “Restitution and Constructive Trusts”(1998) 114 LQR 399 at 413. 57 Bofinger v Kingsway Group Ltd [2009] HCA 44; (2009) 239 CLR 269 at [85]–[98]; Matthew Conaglen & Peter Turner, “Subrogation, Accounting and Unjust Enrichment”(2010) 69 Camb LJ 30; Paul......
  • CONSTRUCTIVE TRUSTS AND DISCRETION IN AUSTRALIA: TAKING STOCK.
    • Australia
    • Melbourne University Law Review Vol. 44 No. 3, April 2021
    • 1 April 2021
    ...101 (Giumelli'); Farah Constructions Pty Ltd v Say-Dee Pty Ltd (2007) 230 CLR 89 (Farah Constructions'); Bofinger v Kingsway Group Ltd (2009) 239 CLR 269 ('Bofinger'); John Alexander's Clubs Pty Ltd v White City Tennis Club Ltd (2010) 241 CLR 1 (John Alexander's (8) Muschinski (n 7) 613 (De......
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