Chester v Waverley Corporation
| Jurisdiction | Australia Federal only |
| Neutral Citation | [1939] HCA 25,1939-0606 HCA A |
| Date | 1939 |
| Court | High Court |
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22 cases
- Jaensch v Coffey
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Wicks v State Rail Authority of New South Wales Sheehan v State Rail Authority of New South Wales
...mother feared a runaway lorry might have injured her child. It is not to be read as confined to the cases discussed by Evatt J in Chester v Waverley Corporation17 by reference to the decision in Hambrook. Nor is the expression to be read down by reference to how the phrase was to be underst......
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White and Others v Chief Constable of South Yorkshire Police and Others
...passed does not prevent recovery by a rescuer (see Baker v Phillips and the dissenting judgment of Evatt J in Chester v Waverley Corporation 62 CLR 1 approved by Lord Bridge in McLoughlin at 439A). If, as Lord Bridge said in Ogwo, the professional rescuer is not to be at a disadvantage, the......
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Bourhill v Young
... ... The remaining case is Owens v. Liverpool Corporation , (1939) 1 K.B. 394 , in which the defendants' tramcar collided with a hearse, damaged it and ... , however, forbear referring to a most important case in the High Court of Australia, Chester v. Waverley Corporation , 62 C.L.R. 1 , where the Court by a majority held that no duty was made ... ...
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The Australian High Court and Social Facts: A Content Analysis Study
...at Grant v Australian Knitting Mills Ltd (1935) 54 CLR 49. 5 Australian Knitting Mills Ltd v Grant (1933) 50 CLR 387, 409. 6 Ibid 410. 7 (1939) 62 CLR 1. 8 Ibid 10. This SF appears to be based on judicial use of 'common sense' assumptions about the psychological effects on parents of experi......