Colonial Mutual Life Assurance Society Ltd v Producers and Citizens Co-Operative Assurance Company of Australia Ltd

JurisdictionAustralia Federal only
CourtHigh Court
Neutral Citation[1931] HCA 53,1931-1223 HCA B
Year1931
Date1931

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    ...complained of’ ( Colonial Mutual Life Assurance Society Ltd. v. Producers and Citizens Co-operative Assurance Company of Australia Ltd. (1931) 46 CLR 41 at p. 50 per Gavan Duffy C.J. and Starke 172 . Colonial Mutual Life Assurance Society Ltd. itself affords a good example. The defamation a......
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    ...HCA 19. See Colonial Mutual Life Assurance Society Ltd v The Producers and Citizens Co-operative Assurance Company of Australia Ltd (1931) 46 CLR 41 and Jonathan Burnett, Avoiding Difficult Questions: Vicarious Liability and Independent Contractors in Sweeney v Boylan Nominees (2007) 129 Sy......