Stevens v Head

JurisdictionAustralia Federal only
Neutral Citation1993-0318 HCA D,[1993] HCA 19
Date1993
Year1993
CourtHigh Court
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46 cases
  • Harding v Wealands
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 5 July 2006
    ...as distinguished from those determinative of the rights of both parties." Or it can have a wider meaning which embraces what Mason CJ in Stevens v Head (1993) 176 CLR 433, 445 called "the traditional equation drawn between matters relating to a remedy and matters of procedure". This is the ......
  • Mason v Murray's Charter Coaches and Travel Services Pty Ltd
    • Australia
    • Federal Court
    • Invalid date
  • Harding v Wealands
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 17 December 2004
    ...in Boys v ChaplinELR[1971] AC 356 relied on are at pp 378-379 (Lord Hodson), pp 381-382 (Lord Guest) and p 393 (Lord Wilberforce): see 176 CLR 433, 457, footnote 94. The passages referred to support the view that so far as damages are concerned it is a question for the substantive law wheth......
  • Roerig v Valiant Trawlers Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 28 January 2002
    ...substantive and procedural (or adjectival or non-substantive) law" (see page 395A). The Australian decision Stevens v Head [1992/3] 176 CLR 433, which by a majority of four to three decided that a New South Wales Statute was procedural and not substantive, bears testament to the difficultie......
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13 books & journal articles
  • Pleading and proving foreign law in Australia.
    • Australia
    • Melbourne University Law Review Vol. 31 No. 2, August 2007
    • 1 August 2007
    ...(1965) 114 CLR 20; Breavington v Godleman (1988) 169 CLR 41; McKain v R W Miller & Co (SA) Pry Ltd (1991) 174 CLR 1; Stevens v Head (1993) 176 CLR 433. (13) (2005) 223 CLR (14) (2001) 52 NSWLR 492. (15) Zhang (2002) 210 CLR 491,520 (Gleeson CJ, Gaudron, McHugh, Gummow and Hayne JJ). (16......
  • The Centralisation of Judicial Power within the Australian Federal System
    • United Kingdom
    • Federal Law Review No. 42-2, June 2014
    • 1 June 2014
    ...(2007) 230 CLR 89, 151–2. 116 John Pfeiffer Pty Ltd v Rogerson (2000) 203 CLR 503 (‘Pfeiffer’). 117 Ibid 535. 118 (1991) 174 CLR 1. 119 (1993) 176 CLR 433. 120 Where a court is exercising federal j urisdiction, state laws must be picked up and applied by federal provisions — notably ss 79 a......
  • Conflicts and Choice of Law within the Australian Constitutional Context
    • United Kingdom
    • Federal Law Review No. 31-2, June 2003
    • 1 June 2003
    ...CLR 503, 544 [102] (Gleeson CJ, Gaudron, McHugh, Gummow and Hayne JJ),562–3 [157] (Kirby J).59 (2000) 203 CLR 503, 576 [201]–[202].60 (1993) 176 CLR 433.61 Pfeiffer (2000) 203 CLR 503, 543–4 [99]–[100], 544 [102] (Gleeson CJ, Gaudron, McHugh,Gummow and Hayne JJ) 554 [133]–[134], 563 [161] (......
  • Territory Courts and Federal Jurisdiction
    • United Kingdom
    • Federal Law Review No. 33-1, March 2005
    • 1 March 2005
    ...J); Pearce v Florenca (1976) 135 CLR 507, 527 (Jacobs J); Breavington v Godleman (1988) 169 CLR 41, 78 (Mason CJ); Stevens v Head (1992) 176 CLR 433, 461 (Deane J); Newcrest Mining (WA) Ltd v The Commonwealth (1997) 190 CLR 513, 656 (Kirby J). 42 Spratt v Hermes (1965) 114 CLR 226, 270. 43 ......
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