Mcrae v Commonwealth Disposals Commission
| Jurisdiction | Australia Federal only |
| Neutral Citation | 1951-0827 HCA A,[1951] HCA 79 |
| Date | 1951 |
| Year | 1951 |
| Court | High Court |
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CONTRACT LAW IN COMMONWEALTH COUNTRIES: UNIFORMITY OR DIVERGENCE?
...(1961) 24 MLR 421; and J C Smith, “Contracts – Mistake, Frustration and Implied Terms” (1994) 110 LQR 400, amongst other pieces. 80 (1951) 84 CLR 377. 81 And see, for example, the Singapore High Court decision of Wellmix Organics (International) Pte Ltd v Lau Yu Man [2006] 2 SLR(R) 117 at [......
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CONTRACT DAMAGES AND THE PROMISEE'S ROLE IN ITS OWN LOSS.
...and Kramer (n 24) 264-71. (54) For sale of goods outright, or as part of business, see, eg, McRae v Commonwealth Disposals Commission (1951) 84 CLR 377, 411, 414 (Dixon and Fullagar JJ); Aryeh v Lawrence Kostoris & Son Ltd [1967] 1 Lloyd's Rep 63, 70 (Willmer LJ); Clark v Macourt (2013)......
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VITIATING FACTORS IN CONTRACT LAW — SOME KEY CONCEPTS AND DEVELOPMENTS
...14-100 to 14-125. 24 Supra n 19. 25 See, in particular, the Australian High Court decision of McRae v Commonwealth Disposals Commission(1951) 84 CLR 377. 26 See eg, C J Slade, “The Myth of Mistake in the English Law of Contract”(1954) 70 LQR 385; P S Atiyah, “Couturier v Hastie and the Sale......
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Prioritising Proof over Speculation: Resolving the Prospective Inability Problem in Contract Damages
...recouped its expenditure, and the facts in the High Court of Australia’searlier decision in McRae vCommonwealth Disposals Commission (1951) 84 CLR 377, where itwas impossible to know what would have happened had the breach not occurred because thepromised tanker never existed.141 The presen......