Northern Territory v Mengel
| Jurisdiction | Australia Federal only |
| Neutral Citation | [1995] HCA 65,1995-0419 HCA A |
| Year | 1995 |
| Date | 1995 |
| Court | High Court |
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221 cases
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Kennedy v Law Society of Ireland (No 4)
...Court and the Court of Appeal of New Zealand have ruled that recklessness is sufficient (see Northern Territory of Australia v. Mengel (1995) 185 CLR 307, Garrett v. A-G [1997] 2 NZLR 332, Rawlinson v. Rice [1997] 2 NZLR 651). Clarke J. (at 581) lucidly explained the reason for the inclusio......
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4 firm's commentaries
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Construction & Infrastructure - What's News - 20 January 2015
...decision - Sid Ross Agency Pty Ltd v Actors & Announcers Equity Association [1971] 1 NSWLR 76 applied - Northern Territory v Mengel [1995] HCA 65; (1995) 185 CLR 307, OBG Ltd v Allan [2007] UKHL 21; [2008] 1 AC 1 considered - Appeal dismissed. BHP v Steuler; Protec v Steuler [2014] VSCA......
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Deliberate, fraudulent, negligent diagnosis of mental illness and an absence of consent on admission to a mental health ward: Stewart v Hames
...n 1, at [57]. 81 Above n 1, at [434]-[35]. 82 Above n 1, at [436]. 83 Above n 1, at [58]. 84 Northern Territory of Australia v Mengel (1995) 185 CLR 307; (1995) 129 ALR 1; [1995] HCA 65; 85 Above n 1, at [463]. 86 Above n 1, at [486]. 87 Above n 1, at [489]. 88 Above n 1, at [59]. 89 Wilkin......
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Class action commenced over Covid-19 vaccine injuries
...there... [was] no power to engage in that coduct and that that conduct... [was] calculated to produce injury"; Northern Territory v Mengel[1995] HCA 65 The test is clearly a high one in the context of inflicting injury, while the question of whether there was a power for the Government to a......
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Federal Court confirms high bar for misfeasance in public office
...made out if the relevant mental intention is shown. The state of mind required was described by Brennan J in Northern Territory v Mengel [1995] HCA 65; (1995) 185 CLR 307 (Mengel) as follows (at 357): "The mental element is satisfied when the public officer engages in the impugned conduct w......
11 books & journal articles
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Alexander Meiklejohn, American Constitutional Law, and Australia's Implied Freedom of Political Communication
...91 Bivens v Six Unknown Named Agents of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, 403 US 388 (1971) ('Bivens'). 92 Northern Territory v Mengel (1995) 185 CLR 307 ('Mengel'). 93 Lange (1997) 189 CLR 520, 563. 2006 American Constitutional Law and the Implied Freedom of Political Communication 437 ____......
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Of Kings and Officers — The Judicial Development of Public Law
...(also 2 Ld Raym 938; 92 ER 126). 70 It has been suggested that Holt CJ also required malice as an element of the wrong: see NT v Mengel (1996) 185 CLR 307, 356–7. It is not apparent to the writer that he did. See, for example, his dissent in Lane v Cotton (1701) 1 Ld Raym 646; 91 ER 1332. 7......
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The Development of the High Court's Willingness to Overrule Common Law Precedent
...(1978) 141 CLR 88. 92 (1987) 162 CLR 645. 93 (1991) 171 CLR 468. 94 (1978) 144 CLR 202. 95 (1980) 146 CLR 1. 96 (2008) 236 CLR 510. 97 (1995) 185 CLR 307. This case overturned the High Court’s earlier decision in Beaudesert Shire Council v Smith (1966) 120 CLR 145 (‘Beaudesert’) that had re......
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Bureaucratic bungling, deliberate misconduct and claims for pure economic loss in the tender process
...has42Steenkamp supra note 5 para 27.43See JD v East Berkshire note 41 para 78 per Lord Nicholls.44Sullivan v Moody (2001) 207 CLR 562 (HCA) para 50.45Van der Walt & Midgley op cit note 9 para 123.46Sand and Co Ltd v SAR & H 1948 (1) SA 230 (W) 243; Steenkamp v Steyn 1944 AD 536 at554.47Atto......
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