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Hospital Products Ltd v United States Surgical Corporation

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JurisdictionAustralia Federal only
Judgment Date1984
Neutral Citation[1984] HCA 64,1984-1025 HCA B
Date1984
CourtHigh Court
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    • Australia
    • Federal Court
    • Invalid date
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    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division (Technology and Construction Court)
    • 21 March 2014
    ...duties. The fiduciary duties, if they exist, must then be moulded to fit the contractual framework. Thus in Hospital Products Ltd v United States Surgical Corporation (1984) 156 CLR 41 it was stated by Mason J (at paragraph 70): " That contractual and fiduciary relationships may co-exist be......
  • Första Ap-Fonden v Bank of New York Mellon SA/NV and Others
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division (Commercial Court)
    • 16 October 2013
    ...of the parties and the fiduciary relationship, if it is to exist at all, must accommodate itself to its terms ( Hospital Products Ltd v United States Surgical Corp (1984) 156 CLR 41 at 97, Mason J). 178 This applies with particular force where the parties are both substantial financial inst......
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    • Australia
    • Federal Court
    • Invalid date
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8 firm's commentaries
  • Stronger Super: a new dawn for trustee governance
    • Australia
    • Mondaq Australia
    • 25 July 2013
    ...Act, s 1041H. 14 ASIC Act, s 12DA. 15 ASIC Act, s 12CB. 16 ASIC Act, s 12DB. 17 Hospital Products Ltd v United States Surgical Corp (1984) 156 CLR 41. 18 Regal (Hastings) Ltd v Gulliver [1942] 1 All ER 378. 19 See for example, Queensland Mines Ltd v Hudson (1978) 18 ALR 1; Industrial Develo......
  • Addisons Contractual Interpretation Series - 'Best Endeavours'
    • Australia
    • Mondaq Australia
    • 5 May 2012
    ...of Addisons in the preparation of this article is noted and greatly appreciated. Footnotes 1 (1980) 144 CLR 83 (hereafterTransfield). 2 (1984) 156 CLR 41. 3 (2009) 76 NSWLR 129 (hereafter Centennial Coal). 4 [2011] NSWCA 173 (hereafter Cypjayne). 5 A.P. Stephens v Scottish Boatowners Mutual......
  • Landlord's promise to renew leases does not give rise to collateral contract or promissory estoppel
    • Australia
    • Mondaq Australia
    • 29 July 2016
    ...Melbourne Ltd (2014) 45 VR 771. 5 See Hospital Products Ltd v United States Surgical Corporation (1984) 156 CLR 41 at 61-62 per Gibbs CJ; [1984] HCA 64; see Crown Melbourne Limited v Cosmopolitan Hotel (Vic) Pty Ltd [2016] HCA 26, [22] per French CJ, Kiefel and Bell JJ. 6 Crown Melbourne Lt......
  • What does it mean to exercise 'reasonable commercial endeavours'?
    • Australia
    • Mondaq Australia
    • 22 September 2011
    ...that the party will not hinder or prevent the fulfilment of the objective (Hospital Products Ltd v United States Surgical Corporation [1984] HCA 64 per Gibbs CJ). Obligation to use reasonable commercial The contract in Cypjayne required the parties to use "reasonable commercial endeavours" ......
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15 books & journal articles
  • 'The receipt of what?': Questions concerning third party recipient liability in equity and unjust enrichment.
    • Australia
    • Melbourne University Law Review Vol. 31 No. 1, April 2007
    • 1 April 2007
    ...n 32. (143) See below Part V(B)(2). (144) See, eg, Boardman [1967] 2 AC 46; Hospital Products Ltd v United States Surgical Corporation (1984) 156 CLR 41. (145) Hospital Products Ltd v United States Surgical Corporation (1984) 156 CLR 41, 108 (Mason (146) See, eg, K & S Corporation Ltd v......
  • UNAUTHORISED FIDUCIARY GAINS AND THE CONSTRUCTIVE TRUST
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 2016, December 2016
    • 1 December 2016
    ...eg, Keith Henry & Co Pty Ltd v Stuart Walker & Co Pty Ltd(1958) 100 CLR 342 at 350; Hospital Products Ltd v United States Surgical Corp(1984) 156 CLR 41 at 107–108, per Mason J. 25 See, eg, Grimaldi v Chameleon Mining NL (No 2)(2012) 200 FCR 296, noted in Lusina Ho, “Bribes and the Construc......
  • SELF-DEALING AND NO-PROFIT RULES: COMPANIES ACT 2016
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 2020, December 2020
    • 1 December 2020
    ...Ltd v Bryant [2007] BCC 804; In Plus Group Ltd v Pyke [2002] 2 BCLC 201. 22 Hospital Products Ltd v United States Surgical Corp (1984) 156 CLR 41; Poon Ka Man Jason v Cheng Wai Tao [2017] 1 HKC 463. 23 The Straits Settlement Companies Ordinance 1940 (Ordinance No 49 of 1940); the Malayan Un......
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    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 2016, December 2016
    • 1 December 2016
    ...operation. 20Sinwa SS (HK) Co Ltd v Morten Innhaug[2010] 4 SLR 1 at [31]. 21 See Hospital Products Ltd v United States Surgical Corp(1984) 156 CLR 41 at 97, per Mason J; Australian Securities and Investments Commission v Citigroup Global Markets Australia Pty Ltd (No 4)(2007) 160 FCR 35. 22......
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