Modbury Triangle Shopping Centre Pty Ltd v Anzil

JurisdictionAustralia Federal only
JudgeGleeson CJ,Gaudron J,Kirby J,Hayne J,Callinan J
Judgment Date23 November 2000
Neutral Citation2000-1123 HCA B,[2000] HCA 61
CourtHigh Court
Docket NumberA16/2000
Date23 November 2000
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159 cases
  • Fullowka et al. v. Pinkerton's of Canada Ltd. et al., (2008) 433 A.R. 69 (NWTCA)
    • Canada
    • Northwest Territories Court of Appeal (Northwest Territories)
    • 22 May 2008
    ...300 F.3d 683; 2002 FED App. 0270P (6th Cir.), refd to. [para. 36, footnote 66]. Modbury Triangle Shopping Centre Pty. Ltd. v. Anzil, [2000] HCA 61; 205 C.L.R. 254, refd to. [para. 36, footnote Smith v. Leurs (1945), 70 C.L.R. 256 (H.C.A.), refd to. [para. 36, footnote 67]. Ship Koursk, Re, ......
  • Michael v Chief Constable of South Wales Police
    • United Kingdom
    • Supreme Court
    • 28 January 2015
    ...J preferred a more expansive formulation based on the application of Anns. 92 In Australia, the High Court held in Modbury Triangle Shopping Centre Pty Ltd v Anzil (2000) 205 CLR 254 that the proprietors of a shopping centre owed no duty of care towards visitors to protect them against the ......
  • (1) CN v Poole Borough Council
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 21 December 2017
    ...for not preventing evil is, comparatively speaking, the exception”. As Gleeson CJ said in the High Court of Australia in Modbury Triangle Shopping Centre Pty Ltd v Anzil (2000) 205 C.L.R. 254 at para.28, “If people were under a legal duty to prevent foreseeable harm to others, the burden im......
  • Ann Thomson (ap) V. The Scottish Ministers
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Session
    • 28 June 2013
    ...as observed by Dixon J in Smith, had been endorsed by the High Court of Australia in Modbury Triangle Shopping Centre Pty v Anzil (2000) 205 CLR 254 (Gleeson CJ at paras [29] and [30]) as follows: "The unpredictability of criminal behaviour is one of the reasons why, as a general rule, and ......
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14 firm's commentaries
  • Negligence and Causation: Failure to have bouncers at the door not causative of plaintiffs being shot
    • Australia
    • Mondaq Australia
    • 30 November 2009
    ...Civil Liability Act. This is the touchstone in determining causation. 1 French CJ, Gummow, Hayne, Heydon and Crennan JJ 2 [2000] HCA 42 3 [2000] HCA 61 4 [2009] HCA 42 5 [2009] NSWCA 263 6 [2009] NSWCA 247 The content of this article is intended to provide a general guide to the subject mat......
  • No special duty to protect customers from third party criminal conduct
    • Australia
    • Mondaq Australia
    • 19 February 2013
    ...than not they would not have been injured if such a system was in place. Footnotes 1 Basten and Meagher JJA, Davies J in agreement 2 [2000] HCA 61; 205 CLR 254 3 Ibid at [26] 4 Ibid at [35] 5 Ibid at [29] 6 [2009] HCA 48; 239 CLR 420 at Ranked No 1 - Australia's fastest growing law firm' (L......
  • Adeels Palace Pty Ltd v Moubarak: High Court of Australia reigns in the scope of 'Duty of Care'
    • Australia
    • Mondaq Australia
    • 2 December 2009
    ...in relation the criminal conduct of third parties, in accordance with the principles in Modbury Triangle Shopping Centre Pty Ltd v Anzil [2000] HCA 61. The NSWCA disagreed, holding that the defendant failed to provide reasonable protection against intoxicated, unruly or violent patrons who ......
  • Occupiers' liability: the landlord, the owners corporation, the criminal and the entrant
    • Australia
    • Mondaq Australia
    • 1 March 2015
    ...glass in structures of that nature. Is there a duty to guard against criminal acts? In Modbury Triangle Shopping Centre Pty Ltd v Anzil [2000] HCA 61, which involved an employee who was assaulted in the car park of a shopping centre where he worked, the High Court held that an owner/occupie......
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4 books & journal articles
  • Government liability in negligence.
    • Australia
    • Melbourne University Law Review Vol. 32 No. 1, April 2008
    • 1 April 2008
    ...(175) See, eg, Australian Safeway Stores Pty Ltd v Zaluzna (1987) 162 CLR 479. Cf Modbury Triangle Shopping Centre Pry Ltd v Anzil (2000) 205 CLR 254. (176) See, eg, Howard v Jarvis (1958) 98 CLR 177; Dixon v Western Australia [1974] WAR 65; L v Commonwealth (1976) 10 ALR 269. (177) See, eg......
  • THE PROMISE OF UNIVERSALITY
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 2013, December 2013
    • 1 December 2013
    ...461 and Commissioner for Railways v McDermott[1967] 1 AC 169 at 186. 126 For example, Modbury Triangle Shopping Centre Pty Ltd v Anzil(2000) 205 CLR 254 at 264 and Bhamra v Dubb[2010] EWCA Civ 13 at [25]. 127 For example, Crimmins v Stevedoring Industry Finance Committee(1999) 200 CLR 1 at ......
  • Should advocates' immunity continue?
    • Australia
    • Melbourne University Law Review Vol. 28 No. 1, April - April 2004
    • 1 April 2004
    ...at 96-8. (278) This seems to be the best explanation of the fragmented reasoning in Modbury Triangle Shopping Centre Pty Ltd v Anzil (2000) 205 CLR 254. (279) [1999] 167 ALR 575, 602 (280) Ibid 602. (281) But see Yeo, above n 3. Yeo believes that advocates' immunity should be narrowed. He s......
  • SINGAPORE ACADEMY OF LAW ANNUAL LECTURE 2007: “AUSTRALIA’S CONTRIBUTION TO THE COMMON LAW”
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 2008, December 2008
    • 1 December 2008
    ...55 [1990] 2 AC 605 at 617—618. 56 For example, Perre v Apand Pty Ltd(1999) 198 CLR 180; Modbury Triangle Shopping Centre Pty Ltd v Anzil(2000) 205 CLR 254; Sullivan v Moody(2001) 207 CLR 562. 57 (2001) 207 CLR 562 at 579, [49]. 58 (2002) 211 CLR 317. 59 (1987) 162 CLR 479 (“Zaluzna”). 60 [1......

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