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Empire Shipping Co Inc v Owners of the Ship “Shin Kobe Maru”

Empire Shipping Co Inc v Owners of the Ship “Shin Kobe Maru”

Case [1991] FCA 641

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AGLC: Empire Shipping Company Inc. v. The owners of the ship Shin Kobe Maru [1991] FCA 641 ((1991) 104 ALR 489; (1991) 32 FCR 78)
Case: [1991] FCA 641
Decision Date: 28 OCTOBER 1991

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The defendant's motion filed 12 October 1989 be dismissed.

The defendant pay the plaintiff's costs of the motion and of the Case Stated to the Full Court.

NOTE: Settlement and entry of order is dealt with by Order 36 of the Federal Court Rules.

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Empire Shipping Company Inc. v. The owners of the ship Shin Kobe Maru [1991] FCA 641 ((1991) 104 ALR 489; (1991) 32 FCR 78)

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Citation 2 (Para 105)

…363. Of course the allegations in the statement of claim are taken to be accepted for present purposes: Empire Shipping Co v Owners of Shin Kobe Maru (1991) 32 FCR 78. Embarking upon a detailed investigation of the whole matter on a strike out application which the defendants invite the Court to undertake requires…
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Citation 3 (Para 46)

…to the fact that allegations in an impugned pleading will ordinarily be taken as accepted: Empire Shipping Co Inc v Owners of the Ship Shin Kobe Maru (1991) 32 FCR 78. But even if I was to accept the matters identified in the defence, they go no further than explaining why there was a default on the loan. They do n…
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Citation 4 (Para 74)

…ity of the cause of action pleaded that is in question: see, for example, Empire Shipping v Owners of the Ship “Shin Kobe Maru” (1991) 32 FCR 78; [1991] FCA 641 at 80.…
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Citation 5 (Para 47)

…application, allegations in the pleading are taken to be factually sustained (referring to Empire Shipping Co Inc v Owners of the Ship Shin Kobe Maru (1991) 32 FCR 78; 104 ALR 489). Whatever the ultimate determination of the factual dispute as to whether the Board gave the approval referred to in the contract and w…
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Citation 6 (Para 2)

…ly succeed : Hodges v Sandhurst Trustees Limited [2014] FCA 1223 at [7], citing Empire Shipping Company Inc v Owners of the Ship Shin Kobe Maru (1991) 32 FCR 78.…
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Citation 7 (Para 21)

…h in The ‘Kalibia’ , and the modern doubts raised about it: Empire Shipping Company Inc v Owners of the Ship ‘Shin Kobe Maru’ [1991] FCA 499; (1991) 32 FCR 78 at 86-87 (Gummow J). Rather, what is important for this appeal is the well-understood recognition of the limitations placed on a coherent national maritime l…
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Citation 8 (Para 7)

…blishing that the applicant’s case is so untenable that it cannot possibly succeed: Empire Shipping Company Inc v Owners of the Ship Shin Kobe Maru (1991) 32 FCR 78.…
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Citation 9 (Para 1)

…In Empire Shipping Company Inc v Owners of the ship "Shin Kobe Maru" (1991) 32 FCR 78, Gummow J said of an application to strike out a statement of claim said not to disclose a reasonable cause of action at 80:…
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Citation 10 (Para 8)

…ause of action will be made on the assumption that the facts alleged are true; Empire Shipping Co Inc v Owners of the Ship “Shin Kobe Maru” (1991) 32 FCR 78. In determining the application of those principles it is not enough that the pleaded case is weak or has a low prospect of success; C oe v Commonwealth of Aus…
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Citation 11 (Para 25)

…985] AC at 270-71 was cited with apparent approval by Gummow J in Empire Shipping Company Inc v Owners of the Ship ‘Shin Kobe Maru’ (1991) 32 FCR 78 at 95 (at first instance).…
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Citation 12 (Para 1)

…ld accept allegations of fact in the pleadings at face value and assume that they can be made out at trial.[11] [11] Empire Shipping v Shin Kobe Maru (1991) 32 FCR 78, 80; Johnson Tiles v Esso Australia (2000) 104 FCR 564, 586.…
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Citation 13 (Para 24)

…2) 38 FCR 227 ( The ‘Skin Kobe Maru’ (FCFC)) at 235 and 245-47, and of Gummow J at first instance in The ‘Shin Kobe Maru’ (1991) 32 FCR 78 ( The ‘Shin Kobe Maru’ (FC)) at 100-111.…
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Citation 14 (Para 12)

…sumed that the factual allegations in the statement of claim can be made out at trial; see Empire Shipping Co Inc v Owners of the Ship Shin Kobe Maru (1991) 32 FCR 78. Counsel for the applicant submitted that, where the dispute between the parties depends upon disputed issues of fact, it will never be appropriate f…
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Citation 15 (Para 24)

…CLR 411, 447-8; Zelling “Of Admiralty and Maritime Jurisdiction” (1982) 56 ALJ 101, 105; and The ‘Shin Kobe Maru’ at first instance (1991) 32 FCR 78, 86-87 and 101-111.…
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Citation 16 (Para 16)

…ed and particularised in the statement of claim will be made good at trial: see Empire Shipping Company Inc v Owners of the Ship “Shin Kobe Maru” (1991) 32 FCR 78 at 80, per Gummow J. I must therefore accept for present purposes that: ·the sample pattern and graded patterns were made in the course of the manufactur…
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Citation 17 (Para 14)

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Citation 18 (Para 3)

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Citation 19 (Para 10)

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Citation 20

…cases included C v S [1979] 2 NSWLR 598, Powers v Maher (1959) 103 CLR 478 at 484-5, Empire Shipping Co Inc v Owners of the Ship “Shin Kobe Maru” (1991) 104 ALR 489 and Oceanic Life Ltd v Chief Commissioner of Stamp Duties (1999) 168 ALR 211. After summarising the effect of the cases His Honour said:…
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Citation 21 (Para 9)

…will be made on the assumption that the facts alleged are true – Empire Shipping Co Inc v Owners of the Ship “Shin Kobe Maru” (1991) 32 FCR 78.…
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Citation 22 (Para 7)

…n the pleading to prove facts at the trial which would constitute a cause of action: Empire Shipping Co Inc v Owners of the Ship “Shin Kobe Maru” (1991) 104 ALR 489; Pancontinental Mining Ltd v Posgold Investments Pty Ltd (1994) 121 ALR 405.…
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Citation 23

…side the originating process, or alternatively to set aside service, was refused ((4) Empire Shipping Co. Inc. v. Owners of the Ship "Shin Kobe Maru" (1991) 104 ALR 489.). An appeal to the Full Court was dismissed ((5) Owners of the Ship "Shin Kobe Maru" v. Empire Shipping Co. Inc. (1992) 110 ALR 463.). YSL now appea…
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Citation 24

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Citation 27

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Citation 29

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