Farah ConstructIons Pty Ltd v Say-Dee Pty Ltd

JurisdictionAustralia Federal only
JudgeGleeson CJ,Gummow,Callinan,Heydon,Crennan JJ
Judgment Date24 May 2007
Neutral Citation2007-0524 HCA B,[2007] HCA 22
CourtHigh Court
Docket NumberS347/2006
Date24 May 2007
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    • Australia
    • Melbourne University Law Review Vol. 36 No. 2, August 2012
    • 1 August 2012
    ...Ex parte DPP (Cth) [2012] QCA 345 (7 December 2012) [41]-[42] (Fraser JA). (362) See Farah Constructions Pty Ltd v Say-Dee Pty Ltd (2007) 230 CLR 89, 151-2 [135] (Gleeson CJ, Gummow, Callinan, Heydon and Crennan (363) Bahar (2011) 255 FLR 80, 93 [55] (McLure P). (364) Ibid 91 [43] (McLure P......
  • Restitution
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review No. 2007, December 2007
    • 1 December 2007
    ...is based on the law of unjust enrichment. The Australian court has resisted this approach (Say-Dee Pty Ltd v Farah Construction Pty Ltd[2007] HCA 22), although there is some obiter support from English cases (Dubai Aluminium Co Ltd v Salaam[2002] 3 WLR 1913; [2002] UKHL 48 at [87]; Twinsect......
  • UNAUTHORISED FIDUCIARY GAINS AND THE CONSTRUCTIVE TRUST
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 2016, December 2016
    • 1 December 2016
    ...Randall, The Tort of Conversion (Hart Publishing, 2009) at pp 141–142. 138 However, in Farah Constructions Pty Ltd v Say-Dee Pty Ltd(2007) 230 CLR 89, the High Court of Australia held that information was not property for the purposes of a knowing receipt claim. 139 See, eg, Keech v Sandfor......
  • SELF-DEALING AND NO-PROFIT RULES: COMPANIES ACT 2016
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 2020, December 2020
    • 1 December 2020
    ...much higher prices. See also Maguire & Tansey v Makaronis (1997) 188 CLR 449 at [466]. 54 Farah Constructions Pty Ltd v Say-Dee Pty Ltd (2007) 236 ALR 209 at [107]. 55 A manifestation of this is the principle of unanimous consent. See Re Duomatic Ltd [1969] 2 Ch 365; EIC Services Ltd v Phip......
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