State Government Insurance Commission (Sa) v Trigwell

JurisdictionAustralia Federal only
CourtHigh Court
Neutral Citation[1979] HCA 40
Year1979
Date1979

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23 cases
  • PGA v The Queen
    • Australia
    • High Court
    • 30 May 2012
    ...(1998) at 121. 210 Judicial Discretion in the House of Lords, (1998) at 121. 211 State Government Insurance Commission v Trigwell (1979) 142 CLR 617 at 633 per Mason J; [1979] HCA 212 See below at [128]–[129] and [146]–[150] for other arguments favouring legislative change in the criminal l......
  • Brodie v Singleton Shire Council
    • Australia
    • High Court
    • 31 May 2001
    ...can have no effect different from repeating and extending the application of the rule by legislative provision. 39 In State Government Insurance Commission v Trigwell30 this Court was concerned with an ancient common law rule concerning accidents suffered by road users as a result of animal......
  • Commonwealth of Australia v Yarmirr
    • Australia
    • High Court
    • 11 October 2001
    ...J. 62 (1992) 175 CLR 1 at 79. 63Cooper v Stuart (1889) 14 App Cas 286 at 291; see also State Government Insurance Commission v Trigwell (1979) 142 CLR 617 esp at 634; Blackstone, Commentaries, 17th ed (1830), vol 1, par 64Mabo [No 2] (1992) 175 CLR 1 at 79 per Deane and Gaudron JJ; Sammut v......
  • Momcilovic v The Queen
    • Australia
    • High Court
    • 8 September 2011
    ...299 (1996) 189 CLR 1 at 18–19; [1996] HCA 18. 300 (2011) 85 ALJR 746; 278 ALR 1. 301State Government Insurance Commission v Trigwell (1979) 142 CLR 617 at 634; [1979] HCA 302Chief Executive Officer of Customs v Labrador Liquor Wholesale Pty Ltd (2003) 216 CLR 161; [2003] HCA 49; Rich v Au......
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5 books & journal articles
  • The Development of the High Court's Willingness to Overrule Common Law Precedent
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage Federal Law Review No. 45-2, June 2017
    • 1 June 2017
    ...a clear judicial resistance to reconsidering settled common law doctrine, see State Government Insurance Commission v Trigwell (1979) 142 CLR 617, 623 (Barwick CJ), 626 (Gibbs J), 633 (Mason J); Dugan v Mirror Newspapers (1978) 142 CLR 583, 586 (Barwick CJ), 590–1 (Gibbs J). See generally A......
  • The Common Law in Australia: Its Nature and Constitutional Significance
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage Federal Law Review No. 32-3, September 2004
    • 1 September 2004
    ...Cas 286, 292–3; Delohery v Permanent Trustee Co of NSW (1904) 1 CLR 283, 289, 291. 11 State Government Insurance Commission v Trigwell (1979) 142 CLR 617, 625 (footnotes omitted). 340 Federal Law Review Volume 32 ______________________________________________________________________________......
  • The Common Law in Australia: Its Nature and Constitutional Significance
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage Federal Law Review No. 32-3, September 2004
    • 1 September 2004
    ...Cas 286, 292–3; Delohery v Permanent Trustee Co of NSW (1904) 1 CLR 283, 289, 291. 11 State Government Insurance Commission v Trigwell (1979) 142 CLR 617, 625 (footnotes omitted). 340 Federal Law Review Volume 32 ______________________________________________________________________________......
  • Reasoning with the Foundations of Rules
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage Federal Law Review No. 46-1, March 2018
    • 1 March 2018
    ...ceased to be a rule of law’: at 437 [224] (emphasis added). 55 Ibid 402 [126]. 56 State Government Insurance Commission (SA) v Trigwell (1979) 142 CLR 617, 627 (Gibbs J) (‘[a]lthough the rules of the common law develop as conditions change, a settled rule is not abrogated because the condit......
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