Perre v Apand

JurisdictionAustralia Federal only
Judgment Date1999
Neutral Citation1999-0812 HCA B,[1999] HCA 36
Date1999
CourtHigh Court
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350 cases
  • Woolcock Street Investments Pty Ltd v Cdg Pty Ltd
    • Australia
    • High Court
    • 1 April 2004
    ...damage the pipeline which was damaged was inherently likely to produce economic loss 42. 23 Since Caltex Oil , and most notably in Perre v Apand Pty Ltd43, the vulnerability of the plaintiff has emerged as an important requirement in cases where a duty of care to avoid economic loss has be......
  • Matland Holdings Pty Ltd v Ntz Pty Ltd
    • Australia
    • Federal Court
    • Invalid date
  • Wakim v Hih Casualty & General Insurance Ltd
    • Australia
    • Federal Court
    • Invalid date
  • Walsh v South Tipperary County Council
    • Ireland
    • High Court
    • 19 December 2011
    ...loss suffered was foreseeable - Ministry of Housing and Local Government v Sharp [1970] 2 QB 223 considered; Perre v Apand PQI Ltd [1999] HCA 36, [1999] 198 CLR 180, Overseas Tankship (UK) Ltd v Morts Dock and Engineering Co. Ltd (The Wagon Mound) [1961] AC 388 and Doran v Delaney (No 2) [......
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6 firm's commentaries
  • Construction & Infrastructure - What's News - 19 August 2014
    • Australia
    • Mondaq Australia
    • 24 August 2014
    ...loss – Liability of building surveyor to owner – Whether assumption of responsibility by building surveyor – Perre v Apand Pty Ltd [1999] HCA 36; (1999) 198 CLR 180 – Woolcock Street Investments Pty Ltd v CDG Pty Ltd [2004] HCA 16; (2004) 216 CLR 515. PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE – Pleadings – Am......
  • Professional Indemnity: No duty of care by builder and developer
    • Australia
    • Mondaq Australia
    • 15 September 2012
    ...Corporation. Such a claim may now not be feasible. Footnotes 1[2012] NSWSC 712 2Ibid, at [127] 3Ibid, at [128] 4(1995) 182 CLR 609 5(1999) 198 CLR 180 6(2004) 216 CLR 515 7Above n 1, at [144] 8Ibid, at [146] – [147] 9Ibid, at [148] – [149] 10Ibid, at [150] 11Ibid, at The content of this art......
  • Australian universities' potential liability for courses that fail to deliver
    • Australia
    • Mondaq Australia
    • 19 December 2016
    ...defendant will render that person liable "in an indeterminate amount for an indeterminate time to an indeterminate class". (Perre v Apand [1999] HCA 36 at [107]) In respect of a university student, it should be relatively straightforward to calculate the loss as the course fees. If the stud......
  • WA Supreme Court decides GM canola crop case
    • Australia
    • Mondaq Australia
    • 19 June 2014
    ...and then an inability of a potato growing family to sell to their wholly unaffected potato crop at higher prices (in Perre v Apand (1999) 198 CLR 180), there was still physical damage (disease) caused to property unlike in the present circumstances where the canola swathes posed no risk hea......
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20 books & journal articles
  • Mandatory sentencing for people smuggling: issues of law and policy.
    • Australia
    • Melbourne University Law Review Vol. 36 No. 2, August 2012
    • 1 August 2012
    ...Williams v New York, 127 NE 2d 545, 550 (Froessel J) (NY Ct App, 1955); Andrews v Parker [1973] Qd R 33, 104 (Stable J); Perte v Apand (1999) 198 CLR 180, 199-200 [31]-[33] (Gaudron J); Justice Michael McHugh, 'The Law-Making Function of the Judicial Process: Part II' (1988) 62 Australian L......
  • Government liability in negligence.
    • Australia
    • Melbourne University Law Review Vol. 32 No. 1, April 2008
    • 1 April 2008
    ...(Hayne J). Gleeson CJ agreed with McHugh J: at 13. Kirby J agreed with Gaudron J on this point: at 87. (87) In Perre v Apand Pry Ltd (1999) 198 CLR 180, 219, McHugh J stated that quasi-legislative functions are free of a duty of care. He repeated this proposition in Graham Barclay Oysters (......
  • THE PROMISE OF UNIVERSALITY
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 2013, December 2013
    • 1 December 2013
    ...competence and prudence of its management.” 97Makawe Pty Ltd v Randwick City Council[2009] NSWCA 412 at [21] (referring to Perre v Apand(1999) 198 CLR 180). See also Stovin v Wise[1996] AC 923 at 938, per Lord Nicholls: “reliance [is not] a necessary ingredient in all cases”. 98Spandeck Eng......
  • Litigation
    • United Kingdom
    • Construction Law. Volume III - Third Edition
    • 13 April 2020
    ...of issues between the irst and the second hearing: Dunstan v Simmie & Co Pty Ltd [1978] VR 669 at 671. 915 Perre v Apand Pty Ltd (1999) 198 CLR 180 at 332, per Callinan J; State of Tasmania v Leighton Contractors Pty Ltd [2004] TASSC 17 at [17], per Cox CJ. If a claimant has not pleaded its......
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