Hungerfords v Walker
| Jurisdiction | Australia Federal only |
| Neutral Citation | [1989] HCA 8,1989-0209 HCA B |
| Date | 1989 |
| Court | High Court |
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Sempra Metals (formerly Metallgesellschaft Ltd) v Commissioners of Inland Revenue
...claimant to recover special, but not general, damages for loss of the use of money is widely seen as illogical. In Hungerfords v Walker (1989) 171 CLR 125, 142 Mason CJ said that it subverted the second limb in Hadley v Baxendale from its intended purpose, which was to allow loss arising fr......
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Westdeutsche Landesbank Girozentrale v Islington London Borough Council
...as falling within it. I prefer therefore to read the passage quoted from Lord Brandon's speech as Mason C.J. and Wilson J. read it in Hungerfords v. Walker (1988) 171 C.L.R. 125, 148, as providing examples (i.e.. not exclusive examples) of the application of the underlying principle of 56No......
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The complexity of interest in retail leasing disputes
...the order and is referable to any interest-bearing components in that order; Hungerford's damages: Derived from Hungerford's v Walker (1989) 171 CLR 125, damages represent loss sustained due to being deprived of money that could have otherwise been invested to accrue interest or used to pay......