Flaherty v Girgis

JurisdictionAustralia Federal only
Neutral Citation1987-0514 HCA B,[1987] HCA 17
Year1987
Date1987
CourtHigh Court
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46 cases
  • Oceanic Sun Line Special Shipping Coinc v Fay
    • Australia
    • High Court
    • Invalid date
  • Regie Nationale Des Usines Renault Sa v Zhang
    • Australia
    • High Court
    • 14 March 2002
    ...Act 1970 (NSW), s 124(1). 159Flaherty v Girgis (1985) 4 NSWLR 248 (Kirby P and Samuels JA; McHugh JA dissenting). 160Flaherty v Girgis (1987) 162 CLR 574. See Phegan, ‘Conflict of laws — Rules for service out of jurisdiction — Damage suffered in Jurisdiction’, (1983) 57 Australian Law Journ......
  • Dalton v Nsw Crime Commission
    • Australia
    • High Court
    • 10 May 2006
    ...Testamentary Process Act 1897, all made under the Federal Council of Australasia Act 1885 (Imp). See joint reasons at [25]. See also Flaherty v Girgis (1987) 162 CLR 574 at 68 The terms of s 16 of the 1901 Act are set out in the reasons of Mason P: Dalton (2004) 62 NSWLR 77 at 84 [31]. 69 S......
  • Zickar v Mgh Plastic Industries Pty Ltd
    • Australia
    • High Court
    • Invalid date
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1 firm's commentaries
  • High Court of Australia dismisses insurers' appeal to quash class action
    • Australia
    • Mondaq Australia
    • 12 August 2023
    ...they purported to confer non-federal jurisdiction on the NSW Supreme Court, noting this argument was inconsistent with Flaherty v Girgis [1987] HCA 17. Court of Appeal's Before the Court of Appeal, the Insurers re-made their unsuccessful first instance argument with some refinements and the......
4 books & journal articles
  • The Common Law and Federal Jurisdiction — What Exactly Does Section 80 of the Judiciary Act DO?
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage Federal Law Review No. 34-1, March 2006
    • 1 March 2006
    ...Today and Tomorrow' (1987) 3 Australian Bar Review 1, 1; see generally 1–3. 94 (1999) 200 CLR 485, 517 [79]; see also Flaherty v Girgis (1987) 162 CLR 574, 598 (Mason ACJ, Wilson and Dawson JJ). 95 So it has been stated that in England '[j]urisdiction and law flow together in a mixed stream......
  • Gone but not Forgotten: In Defence of Hickman
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage Federal Law Review No. 46-2, June 2018
    • 1 June 2018
    ...Debates, House of Representatives, 26 September 2001, 31559 (Philip Ruddock). 123 Ibid 31561. 124 (2003) 211 CLR 476, 499. 125 (1987) 162 CLR 574. 126 Ibid 594; see also Public Service Association of New South Wales v Industrial Commission of New South Wales (1985) 1 NSWLR 627, 640 (Kirby P......
  • JURISDICTION ISSUES IN INTERNATIONAL TORT LITIGATION: A SINGAPORE VIEW
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 1995, December 1995
    • 1 December 1995
    ...of Laws (2nd ed, 1986), at 123. 104 See Flaherty v Girgis(1985) 4 NSWLR 248. 105 Ibid. The decision was affirmed by the High Court (1988) 71 ALR 1. The issues relating to the meaning of the rule were not contested in the High Court, but the Court did note that the conclusion of the Court of......
  • NET EFFECT II: MARKED_CONCERN.COM
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 1999, December 1999
    • 1 December 1999
    ...F Supp 1220 (ND Cal 1997). 69 See MacKinnon v Donaldson, Lufkin and Jenrette Securities Corp.[1988] Ch. 482 at p. 493; Flaherty v Girgis(1987) 162 CLR 574 at p. 598 and Mercedes-Benz AG v Leiduck[1996] 1 AC 284 at p. 305. 70 See also Wilson v Humphreys (Camen) Ltd916 F. 2d 1239 at p. 1243 (......

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