John Pfeiffer Pty Ltd v Rogerson

JurisdictionAustralia Federal only
JudgeGleeson CJ,Gaudron,McHugh,Gummow,Hayne JJ,Kirby J,Callinan J
Judgment Date21 June 2000
Neutral Citation[2000] HCA 36,2000-0621 HCA A
CourtHigh Court
Docket NumberC14/1998
Date21 June 2000
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    • New Zealand
    • Mondaq New Zealand
    • 27 October 2016
    ...ed, LexisNexis, 2014) at [20.2]. 3 In Australia and Canada, this departure was by case law: see, e.g., John Pfeiffer Pty Ltd v Rogerson (2000) 203 CLR 503; 172 ALR 625 and Regie Nationale des Usines Renault SA v Zhang (2002) 210 CLR 491; 187 ALR 1; Tolofson v Jensen [1994] 3 SCR 1022. In En......
  • Foreign maritime lien recognised under Australian admiralty law: Federal Court rejects Halcyon Isle
    • Australia
    • Mondaq Australia
    • 12 January 2016
    ...to be determined according to the law of the forum. However, in a subsequent Australian decision in John Pfeiffer Pty Ltd v Rogerson (2000) 203 CLR 503, the High Court effectively widened the scope of what may constitute "substantive" issues and held that matters that affect the "existence,......
  • Territory or state of connection test for jurisdiction in workers compensation claims
    • Australia
    • Mondaq Australia
    • 2 November 2011
    ...that the law of the place of the tort applies to the damages claim as enunciated by the High Court of Australia in Pfeiffer v Rogerson [2000] HCA 36. The territory or state of connection test and corresponding choice of law provisions were subsequently introduced in NSW in February 2006 as ......
45 books & journal articles
  • Pleading and proving foreign law in Australia.
    • Australia
    • Melbourne University Law Review Vol. 31 No. 2, August 2007
    • 1 August 2007
    ...General Problems of Private International Law (1976) ch 11; Martin Wolff, Private International Law (2nd ed, 1950) ch 17. (10) (2000) 203 CLR 503. (11) (2002) 210 CLR (12) Phillips v Eyre (1870) LR 6 QB 1; Koop v Bebb (1951) 84 CLR 629; Anderson v Eric Anderson Radio & TV Pty Ltd (1965)......
  • The 2017 Winterton Lecture. Sir Owen Dixon Today
    • Australia
    • University of Western Australia Law Review No. 43-1, January 2018
    • 1 January 2018
    ...76 Reproduced in Woinarski (ed), Jesting Pilate (1965) 198, 201; 17 Australian Law Journal 198. 77 (2000) 203 CLR 503, [59]-[65]; [2000] HCA 36. 78 (1945) 70 CLR 598, 616; [1945] HCA 53. 79 (2003) 211 CLR 476; [2003] HCA 2. 80 (2003) 211 CLR 476, [103]-[104]. 81 (1951) 83 CLR 1, 193; cf Kar......
  • SOME CURRENT ISSUES IN SINGAPORE CORPORATE LAW
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 2019, December 2019
    • 1 December 2019
    ...(Cap 50, 2006 Rev Ed), which is a separate issue. 65 (1997) 26 ACSR 662. 66 Thio Keng Poon v Thio Syn Pyn [2010] 3 SLR 143 at [58]. 67 (2000) 203 CLR 503. 68 John Pheiffer Pty Ltd v Rogerson (2000) 203 CLR 503 at [99]. 69 Cordiant Communications (Australia) Pty Ltd v The Communications Grou......
  • The Engineers Case Centenary: SCOTUS and the Origins of Australia's Scabrous Constitutional Signature
    • United Kingdom
    • British Journal of American Legal Studies No. 10-1, April 2021
    • 1 April 2021
    ..., 245 CLR at 81 (Austl.). 421 Id. at 101-03 (U.S. Const. art. VI, cl. 2). 422 Id. at 81 n.376 (citing John Pfeiffer Pty Ltd v Rogerson (2000) 203 CLR 503 (Austl.)). 423 Momcilovic, 245 CLR at 131 (Austl.) (citing Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States 693 § 1831......
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