Dugan v Mirror Newspapers Ltd

JurisdictionAustralia Federal only
CourtHigh Court
Neutral Citation1978-1219 HCA C,[1978] HCA 54
Year1978
Date1978

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23 cases
  • Australian Broadcasting Corporation v O'Neill
    • Australia
    • High Court
    • 28 September 2006
    ...Lord Coleridge CJ. 30Trade Practices Commission v Milreis Pty Ltd (No 2) (1978) 32 FLR 234 at 241. 31 cf Dugan v Mirror Newspapers Ltd (1978) 142 CLR 583. 32 The legislative history of the addition in Australian defamation law of a requirement of public benefit to the defence of justificati......
  • Breavington v Godleman
    • Australia
    • High Court
    • Invalid date
  • Silbert v DPP (Wa)
    • Australia
    • High Court
    • 3 March 2004
    ...173 at 187 [18] per Brennan CJ. 70 The Act, s 53(2). See also s 10(1). 71 The Act, ss 10(1), 15(1). 72 The Act, ss 19, 58. 73 See Dugan v Mirror Newspapers Ltd (1978) 142 CLR 583 at 588–589, 593, 602, 74 Criminal Code (WA), s 683. 75 Director of Public Prosecutions (Cth) v Toro-Martinez (19......
  • Attorney-General (NT) and Another v Emmerson and Another
    • Australia
    • High Court
    • 10 April 2014
    ...Taylor & Talbot on Confiscation and the Proceeds of Crime, 2nd ed (1997) at 1. 160 Explained in Dugan v Mirror Newspapers Ltd (1978) 142 CLR 583 at 588–589, 592, 602, 609–610; [1978] HCA 54. See also Kesselring, ‘Felony Forfeiture in England, c 1170-1870’, (2009) 30 Journal of Legal History......
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3 books & journal articles
  • The Development of the High Court's Willingness to Overrule Common Law Precedent
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage Federal Law Review No. 45-2, June 2017
    • 1 June 2017
    ...tort, property, trusts) is here described as ‘part of the foundation law applying around Australia around the 19th century.’ 109 (1978) 142 CLR 583 (‘Dugan’). 110 (1979) 142 CLR 617 (‘Trigwell’). 306 Federal Law Review Volume 45 ______________________________________________________________......
  • Reasoning with the Foundations of Rules
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage Federal Law Review No. 46-1, March 2018
    • 1 March 2018
    ...on occasion commented favourably on the theory: see Atlas Tiles Ltd v Briers (1978 ) 144 CLR 202, 208; Dugan v Mirror Newspapers Ltd (1978) 142 CLR 583, 586; Giannarelli v Wraith (1988) 165 CLR 543, 585–7. 15 PGA (2012) 245 CLR 355, 357–8, 361. 16 Ngaire Naffine and Joshua Neoh, ‘Fictions a......
  • Human Rights in the High Court of Australia, 1976-2003: The Righting of Australian Law?
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage Federal Law Review No. 33-2, June 2005
    • 1 June 2005
    ...Institutions and/or Scholarship as a Point of Reference in the Interpretation of Common Law Principles: Dugan v Mirror Newspapers Ltd (1978) 142 CLR 583 (Murphy J re: the doctrine of 'civil death' preventing a convicted felon who has been sentenced to death from bringing civil suit); McInni......