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

JurisdictionAustralia Federal only
Neutral Citation[1931] HCA 53,1931-1223 HCA B
Date1931
CourtHigh Court
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  • Gordon v The Irish Racehorse Trainers Association
    • Ireland
    • Court of Appeal (Ireland)
    • 22 December 2022
    ...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......
  • Hickey v McGowan
    • Ireland
    • Supreme Court
    • 9 February 2017
    ...as wrongful and unauthorised ways of performing an authorised task. Thus in Colonial Mutual Life Assurance v Producers Assurance Co (1931) 46 CLR 41, an insurance agent rendered his employer liable notwithstanding an explicit prohibition in his contract of employment against using any langu......
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  • Contractors v Employees: The differences and why it matters - Part 2
    • Australia
    • Mondaq Australia
    • 8 March 2011
    ...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......

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