Lewis v Australian Capital Territory
Jurisdiction | Australia Federal only |
Judge | Edelman J.,Keane J.,Kiefel CJ,Gageler J.,Gordon J. |
Judgment Date | 05 August 2020 |
Neutral Citation | [2020] HCA 26 |
Docket Number | C14/2019 |
Date | 05 August 2020 |
Year | 2020 |
Court | High Court |
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G.E. v Commissioner of an Garda Síochána
...a plaintiff is only entitled to nominal damages in the circumstances of Lumba was accepted by the High Court of Australia in Lewis v. Australian Capital Territory [2020] HCA 26, that Court rejected the approach to the ‘but for’ test which was adopted by the Court of Appeal of England and W......
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Campbell v Northern Territory of Australia (No 3)
...damages awarded for his false imprisonment in the BMU must take account of that circumstance – see Lewis v Australian Capital Territory [2020] HCA 26; (2020) 381 ALR 375 to which the parties drew my attention while judgment was reserved. The applicant is not entitled to damages on the basis......
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Australian Competition and Consumer Commission v NSW Ports Operations Hold Co Pty Ltd
...HCA 8; (1959) 101 CLR 298 JS McMillan Pty Ltd v Commonwealth [1997] FCA 619; (1997) 77 FCR 337 Lewis v Australian Capital Territory [2020] HCA 26; (2020) 381 ALR 375 McGraw-Hinds (Aust) Pty Ltd v Smith [1979] HCA 19; (1979) 144 CLR 633 Monroe Topple & Associates Pty Ltd v Institute of Chart......
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BHL19 v Commonwealth of Australia (No 2)
...M61/2010E v Commonwealth of Australia (2010) 243 CLR 319; [2010] HCA 41 Lewis v Australian Capital Territory (2020) 381 ALR 375; [2020] HCA 26 M38/2002 v Minister for Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs (2003) 131 FCR 146; [2003] FCAFC 131 M38/2002 v Minister for Immigratio......
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Case notes - G.E. v Commissioner of An Garda Síochána & Others: Sea Changes Rejected and an Age-Old Tort Reassessed
...Finally, he accepted the plaintiff ’s 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 ibid. ibid. ibid [22]. ibid. Lewis v Australian Capital Territory [2020] HCA 26. G.E. (n 1) Sea Changes Rejected and an Age-Old Tort Reassessed 143 argument that there was no evidential basis for the contention that the plaintiff wo......