Oceanic Crest Shipping Company v Pilbara Harbour Services Pty Ltd

JurisdictionAustralia Federal only
Neutral Citation1986-0626 HCA A,[1986] HCA 34
Date1986
CourtHigh Court
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  • Esso Petroleum Company Ltd v Hall Russell & Company Ltd (Esso Bernicia)
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 6 Octubre 1988
    ...servant between the shipowner and the pilot. In the recent case of Oceanic Crest Shipping Co. v. Pilbara Harbour Services Pty. Ltd. (1986) 160 C.L.R. 626, the majority of the High Court of Australia considered that a shipowner was responsible for the negligence of a pilot on the basis that ......
  • Viasystems (Tyneside) Ltd v Thermal Transfer (Northern) Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 10 Octubre 2005
    ...has some support from Brennan J in the High Court of Australia in Oceanic Crest Shipping Company v Pilbara Harbour Services Pty Limited [1986] HCA 34; (1986) 160 CLR 626, who said at paragraph 32 of his judgment: "The rule to be derived from Mersey Docks and [ McDonald v The Commonwealth [1......
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3 firm's commentaries
  • Abuse: Childcare centre appeal decision.
    • United States
    • LexBlog United States
    • 6 Julio 2022
    ...in the common law of Australia: [197]–[198]. Oceanic Crest Shipping Company v Pilbara Harbour Services Pty Ltd (1986) 160 CLR 626; [1986] HCA 34; Viasystems (Tyneside) Ltd v Thermal Transfer (Northern) Ltd [2006] QB 510; Day v The Ocean Beach Hotel Shellharbour Pty Ltd (2013) 85 NSWLR 335; ......
  • Abuse: Childcare centre appeal decision.
    • United States
    • LexBlog United States
    • 6 Julio 2022
    ...in the common law of Australia: [197]–[198]. Oceanic Crest Shipping Company v Pilbara Harbour Services Pty Ltd (1986) 160 CLR 626; [1986] HCA 34; Viasystems (Tyneside) Ltd v Thermal Transfer (Northern) Ltd [2006] QB 510; Day v The Ocean Beach Hotel Shellharbour Pty Ltd (2013) 85 NSWLR 335; ......
  • lParkes v Mt Owen Pty Ltd & Anor [2022] NSWSC 909 ' Is a host employer vicariously liable for the negligence of a labour hire employee causing injury to another labour hire employee?
    • Australia
    • Mondaq Australia
    • 16 Agosto 2022
    ...of the negligent worker, Mr Kemp. Footnote 1 [2022] NSWSC 909 citing Oceanic Crest Shipping Co v Pilbara Harbour Services Pty Ltd (1986) 160 CLR 626, 641, 646, 685; Day v Ocean Beach Hotel Shellharbour Pty Ltd (2013) 85 NSWLR 335 [23]-[33]; Hallmark Construction Pty Ltd v Harford [2020] NSW......
4 books & journal articles
  • Termination of Appointments to Public Offices
    • United Kingdom
    • Federal Law Review No. 24-1, March 1996
    • 1 Marzo 1996
    ...PD Finn, "Public Officers:Some Personal Liabilities" (1977)51ALl313at314.Eg,OceanCrestShippingCovPilbaraHarbourServicesPtyLtd(1986) 160 CLR 626.Eg, AG (NSW) vPerpetualTrusteeCo(Ltd)(1955) 92 CLR 113.See GJMcCarry, above n 2at15.Ibidat14. See alsoRobartsvLondonCorporation(1882) 46 LT 623; (1......
  • Of Kings and Officers — The Judicial Development of Public Law
    • United Kingdom
    • Federal Law Review No. 33-2, June 2005
    • 1 Junio 2005
    ...Baume v Commonwealth (1906) 4 CLR 97, 110–12, 122–3 (customs officers); Oceanic Crest Shipping Co v Pilbara Harbour Services Pty Ltd (1986) 160 CLR 626 (shipping pilots); Cubillo v Commonwealth (1999) 163 ALR 395, 443–4; Aronson and Whitmore, above n 66, 23–6. The history of this developmen......
  • Employment status of the police in Australia.
    • Australia
    • Melbourne University Law Review Vol. 27 No. 1, April 2003
    • 1 Abril 2003
    ...Ltd (1986) 160 CLR 16. (21) This issue is adverted to generally in Oceanic Crest Shipping Co Pty Ltd v Pilbara Habour Services Pty Ltd (1986) 160 CLR 626 ('Oceanic Crest (22) AFP Act ss 17(1), 22; NSW Act ss 24(1), 28(1); Vic Act s 4(1); WA Act s 5; Police Act 1998 (SA) ss 12, 17 ('SA Act')......
  • STATUTE AND THEORIES OF VICARIOUS LIABILITY.
    • Australia
    • 1 Diciembre 2019
    ...JJ). (111) (1947) 75 CLR 94. (112) Ibid 114 (citations omitted), quoted in Oceanic Crest Shipping Co v Pilbara Harbour Services Pty Ltd (1986) 160 CLR 626, 662 (Brennan J) ('Oceanic (113) See, eg, Oceanic Shipping (n 112), in which the IDR applied to a ship's pilot employed by a private com......

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