Thompson v Australian Capital Television Pty Ltd
| Jurisdiction | Australia Federal only |
| Neutral Citation | 1996-1210 HCA C,[1996] HCA 38 |
| Date | 1996 |
| Year | 1996 |
| Court | High Court |
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An Agreement Or Understanding To Attain A Common End Or Purpose Is Necessary To Assert A Joint Liability Between Tortfeasors.
...end or purpose. Footnotes 1 Forrest J 2 [1924] P 140 3 [1924] P 140, 155 4 [1924] P 140 5 [1924] P 140, 151, 156, 159 6 [1924] P 140 7 [1996] HCA 38 8 (1928) 2 KB 578 9 [1996] HCA 38 The content of this article is intended to provide a general guide to the subject matter. Specialist advice ......
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Dispute resolution
...tort, and A releases B from its liability, the efect of this will also be to release C: hompson v Australian Capital Television Pty Ltd (1996) 186 CLR 574; Edgewater Homes Pty Ltd v Donohoe [2019] NSWSC 44 at [37]–[45], per Stevenson J. 244 In England, Hong Kong and Singapore this may be do......
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Reasoning with the Foundations of Rules
...disability’, the Act also repea led a rule which was founded on the disability.49 46 Thompson v Australian Capital Television Pty Ltd (1996) 186 CLR 574, 614–15 (Gummow J) (‘Thompson’), quoted in PGA (2012) 245 CLR 355, 373 [31]. 47 (1909) 10 CLR 89. 48 Ibid 95 (emphasis added), quoting Cue......
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A tort of invasion of privacy in Australia?
...104, 122 3. (312) Ibid 124, approving Eric Barendt, Freedom of Speech (1985) 152. (313) Thompson v Australian Capital Television Pty Ltd(1996) 186 CLR 574, (314) See Andrew T Kenyon, "Lange and Reynolds Qualified Privilege: Australian and English Defamation Law and Practice' (2004) 28 Melbo......