Wood Hall Ltd v Pipeline Authority

JurisdictionAustralia Federal only
Neutral Citation[1979] HCA 21
Date1979
CourtHigh Court
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1 firm's commentaries
  • Is your bank guarantee worth the paper it's written on?
    • Australia
    • Mondaq Australia
    • 9 April 2015
    ...by requiring reasonableness can affect a beneficiary's right to call on a bank guarantee. Footnotes 1 Wood Hall Ltd v Pipeline Authority [1979] HCA 21 per Stephen J at [7]. 2 Saipem Australia Pty Ltd v GLNG Operations Pty Ltd [2014] QSC 310 at [62], citing Clough Engineering Ltd v Oil and G......
2 books & journal articles
  • RESTRAINING A CALL ON A PERFORMANCE BOND: SHOULD ‘FRAUD OR UNCONSCIONABILITY’ BE THE NEW ORTHODOXY?
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 2000, December 2000
    • 1 December 2000
    ...571. State Trading Corporation of India v E D & F Man (Sugar) Ltd and Anor[1980] Com LR 235, at 235; Wood Hall Ltd v Pipeline Authority(1979) 141 CLR 443, at 454; Australasian Conference Association Ltd v Mainline Constructions Pty Ltd (in liq)(1978) 141 CLR 335 were cited with approval by ......
  • Security for performance
    • United Kingdom
    • Construction Law. Volume II - Third Edition
    • 13 April 2020
    ...Ja; Simic v New South Wales Land and Housing Corporation [2016] hCa 47 at [2], per French CJ. In Wood Hall Ltd v he Pipeline Authority (1979) 141 CLr 443 at 445, Barwick CJ observed that the description of the instrument under consideration by the court as a “bank guarantee” was “a complete......

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