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Halech v State of South Australia
[2006] SASC 29
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…discharge of their duties as police officers. She referred to, inter alia, Halech v. State of South Australia (2006) 93 SASR 427; Gandy & Anor v. State of Victoria [2006] VSC 480 (Bongiorno J); State of NSW v. Klein (2006) Aust Torts Reports 81-862; Soutter v. Williams & Ors [2007] VCC306 (County Court of Victoria Ju…
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State of Victoria v Horvath
[2002] VSCA 177
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…to have owed a duty of care including Zalewski (supra), State of Victoria v. Horvath (2002) 6 VR 326, Rigby (supra) and Knightly (supra). 28 Having given this matter considerable thought since reserving my decision I have formed the view that the defendants’ summons ought be dismissed for the following reasons: a…
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Tame v New South Wales
[2002] HCA 35
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…which deal with the two principal submissions which she developed in argument. 15 In Tame v. New South Wales (2002) 211 CLR 317 the High Court held that a police officer did not owe a duty of care to the appellant who alleged she had suffered psychiatric injury arising from an error by a police officer in completing…
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Sullivan v Moody
[2001] HCA 59
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…ic accident. 16 The principle in Tame follows that which is found in an earlier decision of Sullivan v. Moody (2001) 207 CLR 562 where the court said that coherence of the law required a duty of care to only be imposed where that duty can rationally be related to the functions, powers and responsibilities of the vari…
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Dey v Victorian Railways Commissioners
[1949] HCA 1
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…regard to the facts as pleaded. He relied on Dey v. Victorian Railways Commissioners (1949) 78 CLR 62 per Dixon J (as he then was) at page 92. Mr. Gorton referred to a number of cases as examples of cases where police had been found to have owed a duty of care including Zalewski (supra), State of Victoria v. Horva…
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Gandy v State of Victoria
[2006] VSC 480
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…rred to, inter alia, Halech v. State of South Australia (2006) 93 SASR 427; Gandy & Anor v. State of Victoria [2006] VSC 480 (Bongiorno J); State of NSW v. Klein (2006) Aust Torts Reports 81-862; Soutter v. Williams & Ors [2007] VCC306 (County Court of Victoria Judge Davis) . 18 In Gandy (supra) Bongiorno J (as h…