Manufacturers Mutual Insurance Ltd v Queensland Government Railways

JurisdictionAustralia Federal only
Neutral Citation1968-0822 HCA B,[1968] HCA 52
Date1968
Year1968
CourtHigh Court
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3 cases
  • TCL Air Conditioner (Zhongshan) Company Ltd v The Judges of the Federal Court of Australia
    • Australia
    • High Court
    • March 13, 2013
    ...570 at 586; Gold Coast City Council v Canterbury Pipe Lines (Aust) Pty Ltd (1968) 118 CLR 58; [1968] HCA 3; Manufacturers' Mutual Insurance Ltd v Queensland Government Railways (1968) 118 CLR 314; [1968] HCA 52; Tuta Products Pty Ltd v Hutcherson Bros Pty Ltd (1972) 127 CLR 253. 143 Tuta......
  • Timtech Chemicals Ltd v Qbe Insurance (International) Ltd Coa
    • New Zealand
    • Court of Appeal
    • June 28, 2012
    ...Chatswood (NSW), 2005) at [10–74]. 13 The authorities include Manufacturers' Mutual Insurance Ltd v The Queensland Government Railways (1968) 118 CLR 314 at 323; Keir Construction Ltd v Royal Insurance (UK) Ltd (1992) 30 ConLR 45 (QB) at 75; and Bird Construction Co Ltd v United States Fire......
  • M [Po-643]
    • United Kingdom
    • Pensions Ombudsman
    • Invalid date
2 firm's commentaries
  • The impact of climate change on the risk allocation of construction projects
    • Australia
    • Mondaq Australia
    • September 2, 2014
    ...clause 14.2 of AS4300-1995 and clause 11.5 of AS4122-2000. 7 Manufacturers' Mutual Insurance Ltd v Queensland Government Railways (1968) 118 CLR 314. 8 IPCC, 2014: Summary for policymakers. In: Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. Part A: Global and Sectoral Aspects. ......
  • Innovation And Design Risk In Construction Projects
    • Australia
    • Mondaq Australia
    • July 6, 2009
    ...of negligence on the part of the designer. The leading case is Manufacturers' Mutual Insurance Ltd v Queensland Government Railways (1968) 118 CLR 314 (MMI), where the High Court held that a design faulty because it did not work, notwithstanding that the designing engineers were not neglige......
2 books & journal articles
  • Defects
    • United Kingdom
    • Construction Law. Volume II - Third Edition
    • April 13, 2020
    ...Pte Ltd [2018] SGHC 193 at [226], per Quentin Loh J. 4 Compare Manufacturers’ Mutual Insurance Ltd v Queensland Government Railways (1968) 118 CLR 314, where it was held, for the purposes of interpreting a clause in an insurance policy that excluded insurers’ liability for “loss or damage a......
  • Insurance
    • United Kingdom
    • Construction Law. Volume III - Third Edition
    • April 13, 2020
    ...of several judicial decisions in several jurisdictions: see, eg, Manufacturers’ Mutual Insurance Ltd v Queensland Government Railways (1968) 118 CLR 314; Pentagon Construction (1969) Co Ltd v US Fidelity & Guaranty Co Ltd [1978] 1 Lloyd’s Rep 93; Simaan General Contracting Co v Pilkington G......

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