Thorne v Kennedy
| Jurisdiction | Australia Federal only |
| Judge | Kiefel CJ,Bell,Gageler,Keane,Edelman JJ.,Nettle J.,Gordon J. |
| Judgment Date | 08 November 2017 |
| Neutral Citation | [2017] HCA 49 |
| Docket Number | B14/2017 |
| Court | High Court |
| Date | 08 November 2017 |
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48 cases
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Times Travel (UK) Ltd v Pakistan International Airlines Corporation
...Appeal of Western Australia) and Doggett v Commonwealth Bank of Australia [2015] VSCA 351 at [73] (Court of Appeal of Victoria). 83 In Thorne v Kennedy [2017] HCA 49 at [29], the High Court of Australia declined to address the arguments for and against the decision in ANZ v Karam that dur......
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Good Living Company Pty Ltd as trustee for the Warren Duncan Trust No 3 v Kingsmede Pty Ltd
...FCR 214 Tameeka Group Pty Ltd v Landan Pty Ltd (No 3) [2016] FCA 733 The Juliana (1822) 2 Dods 504 at 522; 165 ER 1560 Thorne v Kennedy [2017] HCA 49; 263 CLR 85 Tonto Home Loans Australia Pty Ltd v Tavares [2011] NSWCA 389 Unique International College Pty Ltd v Australian Competition and C......
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Australian Securities and Investments Commission v Select AFSL Pty Ltd (No 2)
...NL (in liq) v Meadows, in the matter of Termite Resources NL (in liq) (No 2) [2019] FCA 354: (2019) 370 ALR 191 Thorne v Kennedy [2017] HCA 49; (2017) 263 CLR 85 Tonto Home Loans Australia Pty Ltd v Tavares [2011] NSWCA 389 Unique International College Pty Ltd v Australian Competition and C......
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Australian Competition and Consumer Commission v Productivity Partners Pty Ltd (trading as Captain Cook College) (No 3)
...607 Termite Resources NL (in liq) v Meadows [2019] FCA 354; 370 ALR 191 Tesco Supermarkets Ltd v Nattrass [1972] AC 153 Thorne v Kennedy [2017] HCA 49; 263 CLR 85 Trade Practices Commission v Australia Meat Holdings Pty Ltd [1988] FCA 338; 83 ALR 299 Trade Practices Commission v Tubemakers ......
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6 firm's commentaries
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Hobson's Choice? Statutory Unconscionability Revisited In ASIC v Kobelt
...for ASIC's grounds of appeal. [3] Per Keane J at [118] citing, among other authorities, the High Court's decisions in Thorne v Kennedy [2017] HCA 49; (2017) 91 ALJR 1260 and Kakavas v Crown Melbourne Ltd [2013] HCA 25; (2013) 250 CLR 392. See also Kiefel CJ and Bell J at [15], Nettle and Go......
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Prenuptial agreements on shaky ground after High Court decision
...a recent landmark decision by the High Court of Australia. Woman forced to sign prenup shortly before wedding The case Thorne v Kennedy [2017] HCA 49 centred on a penniless eastern European woman who signed a prenup - or "binding financial agreement" to give it the legal name - on the eve o......
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Thorne v Kennedy [2017] HCA 49: Financial agreements
...FCCA 484 at [93]. 7 Thorne & Kennedy [20150 FCCA 484 at [93]. 8 Thorne & Kennedy [20150 FCCA 484 at [93]. 9 Thorne v Kennedy [2017] HCA 49 at 10 Thorne v Kennedy [2017] HCA 49 at [60]. 11 Thorne v Kennedy [2017] HCA 49 at at [56] For further information please contact: Monique Robb,......
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Pre-nuptial agreements: If you like it
put a prenup on it, or should you?
...relationship insurance that policy people should consider? Absolutely! But, unfortunately for Mr Kennedy in the case of Thorne v Kennedy [2017] HCA 49, a little further thought into the circumstances surrounding the entry into the pre-nuptial agreement with Ms Thorne may have assisted him. ......
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5 books & journal articles
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CONTRACT LAW IN COMMONWEALTH COUNTRIES: UNIFORMITY OR DIVERGENCE?
...– Methodology, Sources and Linkages” [1995] JBL 552. 232 See Rick Bickwood, Exploitative Contracts (Oxford University Press, 2003). 233 [2017] HCA 49, noted in John Eldridge, “Lawful-Act Duress and Marital Agreeements” (2018) 77(1) Camb LJ 32. 234 Thorne v Kennedy [2017] HCA 49 at [16]–[29]......
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Where the Action Is: Macro and Micro Justice in Contract Law
...(1888) 40 Ch D 312.104 Commercial Bank of Australia Ltd vAmadio [1983] HCA 14, (1983) 151 CLR 447 (Amadio),followed in Thorne vKennedy [2017] HCA 49, (2017) FLC 93-807 (Thorne), see also ASIC vKobelt [2019] HCA 18.105 Thorne ibid at [38], citing Amadio ibid, 462.106 Blomley vRyan [1956] HCA......
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2018 Winterton Lecture: Constitutional interpretation
...Evidence, 19th ed, Great Britain, Sweet & Maxwell, 2018, 159 at 172 [6-18]. See also Thorne v Kennedy (2017) 91 ALJR 1260 at 1271 [34]; [2017] HCA 49. 59 Bropho v Western Australia (1990) 171 CLR 1 at 18. 16 University of Western Australia Law Review Vol 45(1):1 not used. However, in Giffor......
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Feminist Relational Contract Theory: A New Model for Family Property Agreements
...for example, J. Conaghan, `Reassessingthe Feminist Theoretical Project in Law' (2000) 27 J. of Law and Society 351.14 Thorne v. Kennedy [2017] HCA 49.ß2018 The Author. Journal of Law and Society ß2018 Cardiff University Law PART I. THE ORTHODOX APPROACH TO NUPTIAL AGREEMENTS1. The current l......
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