Mann v Paterson Constructions Pty Ltd
Jurisdiction | Australia Federal only |
Judge | Kiefel CJ,Bell,Keane JJ.,Gageler J.,Nettle,Gordon,Edelman JJ. |
Judgment Date | 09 October 2019 |
Neutral Citation | [2019] HCA 32 |
Docket Number | M197/2018 |
Court | High Court |
Date | 09 October 2019 |
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WorkPac Pty Ltd v Rossato
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Australian Competition and Consumer Commission v Jayco Corporation Pty Ltd
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Corrs Projects Update: Q4 2019
...we consider and offer key takeaways from a number of recent cases and developments, including: Mann v Paterson Constructions Pty Ltd [2019] HCA 32 (Keywords: termination, repudiation, quantum meruit) Style Timber Floor Pty Ltd v Krivosudsky [2019] NSWCA 171 (Keywords: payment schedules, rea......
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Oh Mann! High Court clarifies availability of quantum meruit claims of construction contracts
...overarching and binding document more than ever before. Background In the case of Peter Mann & Anor v Paterson Constructions Pty Ltd [2019] HCA 32, the owners entered into a fixed price domestic building contract for the construction of two townhouses with Paterson Constructions Pty Ltd......
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Residential focus - In the media, in practice and courts and cases
...to provide relevant documents to tribunal at first instance - injustice caused to the appellant Mann v Paterson Constructions Pty Ltd [2019] HCA 32 Appeal allowed with costs. Restitution - Unjust enrichment - Work and labour done - Where land owners and builder entered into contract to whic......
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High Court of Australia clarifies the availability of the remedy of restitution on a ‘quantum meruit’ basis
...On 9 October 2019, in the judgement of Mann v Paterson Constructions Pty Ltd [2019] HCA 32 (Mann), the High Court of Australia clarified the ability for contractors to claim on a quantum meruit b) Quantum meruit refers to an equitable claim for restitution for the unjust enrichment of the d......
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3 books & journal articles
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Variations
...Timwin Construction Pty Ltd v Façade Innovations Pty Ltd [2005] NSWSC 548 at [26], per McDougall J; Mann v Paterson Constructions Pty Ltd [2019] hCa 32 at [156]–[157], per Nettle, Gordon and Edelman JJ; Bellemore, “Variation Claims in the absence of required Writing” (2010) 26 BCL 150. In a......
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Restitution and Disgorgement
...See American Law Institute , Restatement Third, Restitution and Unjust Enrichment (St Paul: American Law Institute, 2011) s 38. 41 [2019] HCA 32 (Aust HC) [ Mann ]. See also, Taylor v Motability Finance , [2004] All ER (D) 341 (Comm). 42 Mann , above note 41 at para 216. 43 Ibid . Restituti......
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Peter Devonshire and Rohan Havelock (eds), The Impact of Equity and Restitution in Commerce
...to the questions which he addresses may have lessened – or at least be lessening (see, e.g. Mann v Paterson Constructions Pty Ltd [2019] HCA 32, (2019) 267 CLR 560 paras 74, 150, 199 and 212-213). But his chapter nevertheless repays careful Professor Smith’s brilliant chapter first outlines......