Mckain v Rw Miller and Company (Sa) Pty Ltd

JurisdictionAustralia Federal only
Neutral Citation1991-1219 HCA B,[1991] HCA 56
Date1991
CourtHigh Court
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  • Paramasivam v Flynn
    • Australia
    • Federal Court
    • Invalid date
  • Harding v Wealands
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 5 July 2006
    ...at p 1562, para 61, that the context of section 14 suggested that "the approach of Mason CJ in McKain v RW Miller & Co (SA) Pty Ltd (1991) 174 CLR 1 that procedure covers matters as to the mode and conduct of trial is the basic approach of section 14." On that basis the assessment of damage......
  • Roerig v Valiant Trawlers Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 28 January 2002
    ...those laws, there exists a civil liability of the kind which the plaintiff seeks to enforce. In McKain v RW Miller & Co (SA) Pty LtdUNK(1991) 174 CLR 1, it was held that a South Australian law which imposed a limitation on the time within which to bring an action in the courts of that state......
  • Dow Jones & Company Inc. v Gutnick
    • Australia
    • High Court
    • 10 December 2002
    ...1 at 17, 37, 63. 118 [1870] LR 6 QB 1 at 28–29. 119 eg Breavington v Godleman (1988) 169 CLR 41; McKain v R W Miller & Co (SA) Pty Ltd (1991) 174 CLR 1. 120 Zhang (2002) 76 ALJR 551 at 576 [129]–[130]; 187 ALR 1 at 35–36. 121 (2002) 76 ALJR 551 at 577 [133]; 187 ALR 1 at 37; cf Juenger......
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1 firm's commentaries
  • Construction & Infrastructure - What's News - 4 August 2014
    • Australia
    • Mondaq Australia
    • 10 August 2014
    ...[2011] QCA 58, cited Mahony v Queensland Building Services Authority [2013] QCA 323, followed McKain v RW Miller & Co (SA) Pty Ltd (1991) 174 CLR 1; [1991] HCA 56, considered Namour v Queensland Building Services Authority [2014] QCA 72, considered Queensland Building Services Authority......
14 books & journal articles
  • Pleading and proving foreign law in Australia.
    • Australia
    • Melbourne University Law Review Vol. 31 No. 2, August 2007
    • 1 August 2007
    ...Anderson Radio & TV Pty Ltd (1965) 114 CLR 20; Breavington v Godleman (1988) 169 CLR 41; McKain v R W Miller & Co (SA) Pry Ltd (1991) 174 CLR 1; Stevens v Head (1993) 176 CLR (13) (2005) 223 CLR 331. (14) (2001) 52 NSWLR 492. (15) Zhang (2002) 210 CLR 491,520 (Gleeson CJ, Gaudron, M......
  • The Australian Constitution's Influence on the Common Law
    • United Kingdom
    • Federal Law Review No. 31-1, March 2003
    • 1 March 2003
    ...Pfeiffer (2000) 203 CLR 503, 544 (Gleeson CJ, Gaudron, McHugh, Gummow and Hayne JJ),564 [164] (Kirby J), 575–6 [200] (Callinan J).127 (1991) 174 CLR 1 ('McKain v 146 Federal Law Review Volume 31____________________ ______________________ ______________________ ____________________element wa......
  • Litigation
    • United Kingdom
    • Construction Law. Volume III - Third Edition
    • 13 April 2020
    ...Association v himbleby (1983) 25 BLR 91. 135 Limitation Act 1969 (NSW) section 63. See also McKain v RW Miller & Co (SA) Pty Ltd (1991) 174 CLR 1 at 18–19, per Mason CJ. Compare Owners – Strata Plan 64415 v Vero Insurance Ltd [2014] NSWSC 1500 at [26], per Stevenson J. 136 Donovan v Gwentoy......
  • The Centralisation of Judicial Power within the Australian Federal System
    • United Kingdom
    • Federal Law Review No. 42-2, June 2014
    • 1 June 2014
    ...loci delicti.120 115 (2007) 230 CLR 89, 151–2. 116 John Pfeiffer Pty Ltd v Rogerson (2000) 203 CLR 503 (‘Pfeiffer’). 117 Ibid 535. 118 (1991) 174 CLR 1. 119 (1993) 176 CLR 433. 120 Where a court is exercising federal j urisdiction, state laws must be picked up and applied by federal provisi......
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