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Condran v Collis [2024] NSWSC 1574
Citation 1 (Para 279)

…this assumption does not reflect the law. Ancient torts of cattle trespass and nuisance by cattle ingress have long been recognised at common law: Rylands v Fletcher (1866) LR 1 Ex 265 at 280. But all personal liability for damage caused by animals, either by trespass or nuisance, has now been abolished in New South Wales:…
Transport for NSW v Hunt Leather Pty Ltd; Hunt Leather Pty Ltd v Transport for NSW [2024] NSWCA 227
Citation 2

…oads & Traffic Authority of NSW v Refrigerated Roadways Pty Ltd (2009) 77 NSWLR 360; [2009] NSWCA 263 Rylands v Fletcher (1868) LR 3 HL 330 Sedleigh Denfield v O’Callaghan [1940] AC 880 Shinetec (Australia) Pty Ltd v The Gosford Pty Ltd [2024] NSWCA 174 Southern Properties (WA) Pty Ltd v Executive Director of the Department…
Wakefield v Network Waitaki Limited [2024] NZHC 614
Citation 3

…1 There is evidence of high winds in the area at this time. 2 Rylands v Fletcher (1868) LR 3 HL 330.…
Young v Attorney-General [2023] NZSC 142
Citation 4 (Para 9)

…ch he neither was aware nor ought, as a reasonably careful landowner, to have been aware”.[63] [60] Leakey , above n 18. [61]At 517. [62] Rylands v Fletcher (1868) 3 LR 330 (HL). [63] Leakey , above n 18, at 517.…
Sanders v Mount Isa Mines Limited [2023] QSC 188
Citation 5

…43 VR 506 Roads and Traffic Authority of NSW v Dederer (2007) 234 CLR 330 Rosenberg v Percival (2001) 205 CLR 436 RPS v The Queen (2000) 199 CLR 620 Rylands v Fletcher (1866) LR 1 Exch 265 Seltsam Pty Ltd v McNeill [2006] NSWCA 158 Shaw v Menzies & Anor [2011] QCA 197 Singh v Lynch (2020) NSWLR 568 State of Queensland v Ke…
Hunt Leather Pty Ltd v Transport for NSW [2023] NSWSC 840
Citation 6

…9) 77 NSWLR 360; [2009] NSWCA 263 Robson v Leischke (2008) 72 NSWLR 98; [2008] NSWLEC 152 Rylands v Fletcher (1868) LR 3 HL 330 Sedleigh-Denfield v O’Callaghan [1940] AC 880 Southern Properties (WA) Pty Ltd v Executive Director of the Department of Conservation and Land Management (2012) 42 WAR 287; [2012] WASCA 79 Sturgess…
Leisure Investments NZ Ltd Partnership v Grace [2023] NZCA 89
Citation 7 (Para 4)

…r ” was subject to a requirement that the harmful thing must have been brought onto the defendant’s property for a non-natural use.[14] [13]See Rylands v Fletcher (1866) LR 1 Exch 265 (Exch Ch), which was affirmed in Rylands v Fletcher (1868) LR 3 HL 330 (HL) [ Rylands (HL)]. [14]The non-natural use requirement was added by…
Zheng v Ianni and Ors (No.3) [2021] NSWDC 521
Citation 8

…or [2021] HCA 20; (2021) 95 ALJR 607 Prince Alfred College Inc v ADC (2016) 258 CLR 134 Ryder v Frohlich [2004] NSWCA 472 Rylands v Fletcher (1866) LR 1 Ex 265 Scott v Davis (2000) 204 CLR 333 Simpson Design Associates Pty Ltd v Inspector Ching [2011] NSWIRComm 7 Sweeney v Boylan Nominees Pty Ltd (2006) 226 CLR 161 Taylor v…
Nottingham Forest Trustee Ltd v Unison Networks Ltd [2021] NZCA 227
Citation 9 (Para 1)

…Rylands v Fletcher. The test articulated by Blackburn J was that a defendant brought some dangerous thing onto their land for their own purposes: Rylands v Fletcher (1866) LR 1 Exch 265 at 279. A proprietary interest in land has never been a formal prerequisite for a plaintiff to bring a claim in Rylands v Fletcher : see Jo…
Sharma by her litigation representative Sister Marie Brigid Arthur v Minister for the Environment [2021] FCA 560
Citation 10

…Percival (2001) 205 CLR 434 Royal Insurance Co Ltd v Midland Insurance Co Ltd (1908) 26 RPC 95 Rylands v Fletcher (1868) LR 3 HL 330 Sanda v PTTEP Australasia (Ashmore Cartier) Pty Ltd (No 7) [2021] FCA 237 Shaw Savill and Albion Co Ltd v The Commonwealth (1940) 66 CLR 344 Shirt v Wyong Shire Council [1978] 1 NSWLR 631 Ske…
Woodhouse v Fitzgerald [2021] NSWCA 54
Citation 11

…ound (No 2) ) [1967] 1 AC 617 Perpetual Trustee Company Ltd v Milanex Pty Ltd (in liq) [2011] NSWCA 367 Rylands v Fletcher (1866) LR 1 Ex 265 St George Bank Ltd v Quinerts Pty Ltd (2009) 25 VR 666; [2009] VSCA 245 Trajkovski v Simpson [2019] NSWCA 52 Weber v Greater Hume Shire Council (2019) 100 NSWLR 1; [2019] NSWCA 74 Tex…
Grace v Orion New Zealand Limited [2021] NZHC 705
Citation 12 (Para 60)

…v Attfield HC Dunedin CP58/01, 16 June 2003 at [11(ii)]; and Marlborough Lines Ltd v New Zealand Fire Service Commission [2017] NZHC 2127 at [60]. 13 Rylands v Fletcher (1868) 3 LR HL 330. 14 New Zealand Forest Products Ltd v O’Sullivan [1974] 2 NZLR 80 (SC) at 87, citing Hazelwood v Webber (1934) 52 CLR 268 at 277–278 per…
Arndell BHT Arndell v Old Bar Beach Festival Incorporated; Cox v Mid-Coast Council [2020] NSWSC 1710
Citation 13

…v Australian Iron and Steel Pty Ltd (1985) 59 ALJR 492; [1985] HCA 34 Purkess v Crittenden (1965) 114 CLR 164; [1965] HCA 34 Rylands v Fletcher (1868) LR 3 HL 330 Seltsam Pty Ltd v Ghaleb [2005] NSWCA 208 Shaw v Shaw (1954) 2 QB 429 South Western Sydney Local Health District v Sorbello [2017] NSWCA 201 State of New South W…
Gladstone Ports Corporation Limited v Murphy Operator Pty Ltd [2020] QCA 250
Citation 14 (Para 13)

…se were utterly unknown in the days when the prohibition against maintenance was born. [45]Bodkin, supra . [46]Such as the rule in Rylands v Fletcher [1868] UKHL 1; [1868] CR 3; (1868) LR 3 HL 330, as to which, see Burnie Port Authority v General Jones Pty Ltd (1994) 179 CLR 520; and the liability of local autho…
The Owners Strata Plan No. 72250 v Letmin Pty Limited t/as Dubbo Powder Coating [2020] NSWDC 378
Citation 15

…ne Nurseries Sales Pty Ltd [2010] NSWSC 1248 Ross & Glendinning v Hancock & Co [1929] NZLR 204 Rylands v Fletcher [1868] UKHL 1; (1868) LR 3 HL 330 Sampson v Hodson Pressinger [1981] 3 All ER 710 (CA) Sedleigh-Denfield v O’Callaghan [1940] AC 880 Stockwell v Victoria [2001] VSC 497 Sykes v Connolly [1895] 11 WN…
Rodriguez & Sons Pty Ltd v Queensland Bulk Water Supply Authority trading as Seqwater (No 22) [2019] NSWSC 1657
Citation 16

…(1997) 41 NSWLR 588 Gales Holdings Pty Ltd v Tweed Shire Council (2013) 85 NSWLR 514; [2011] NSWSC 1128 Gartner v Kidman (1962) 108 CLR 12; [1962] HCA 27 Graham Barclay Oysters Pty Ltd v Ryan (2002) 211 CLR 540; [2002] HCA 54 Griffiths v Kerkemeyer (1977) 139 CLR 161; [1977] HCA 45 Hadley v Baxendale (1854) 9 Exch 341 Haine…
Hossain v Unity Grammar College Ltd [2019] NSWSC 1313
Citation 17

…[1975] HCA 28 South West Helicopters Pty Ltd v StePHenson [2017] NSWCA 312; (2017) 327 FLR 110 Rylands v Fletcher (1868), LR 3HL 330 State Rail Authority of New South Wales v Brown [2006] NSWCA 220 Stevens v Brodribb Sawmilling Company Pty Ltd (1986) 160 CLR 16; [1986] HCA 1 TNT v Christie (2003) 65 NSWLR 1; [2003] NSWCA 4…
State of New South Wales v Ouhammi [2019] NSWCA 225
Citation 18 (Para 70)

…as Diplock J observed in Fowler v Lanning . [50] 50. [1959] 1 QB 426 at 436, 439. This analysis had its origin in observations of Blackburn CJ in Fletcher v Rylands (1866) LR 1 Exch 265 at 286–287 (affirmed by the House of Lords in Rylands v Fletcher (1868) LR 3 HL 330). See also Venning v Chin (1974) 10 SASR 299 at 312–315…
Unison Network Limited v Nottingham Forest Trustee Limited [2019] NZHC 2280
Citation 19

…ckie is a director of each of the defendants. Unison owns and manages an electricity lines network in the Hawke’s Bay, Rotorua and Taupo regions. 2 Rylands v Fletcher (1868) LR 3 HL 330. 3 The words “electricity operator” were substituted for the words “General Manager (in the case of a line erected by the Minister under th…
Pomare v Hogan (No 3) [2019] NSWSC 497
Citation 20 (Para 104)

…The rule in Rylands v Fletcher [1868] UKHL 1; (1868) LR 3 HL 330, which had the effect of making owners of animals strictly liable in certain circumstances for damage done to those affected when they were not constrained behind fences, was abolished in New South Wales in so far as it applied to damage caused by…
Weber v Greater Hume Shire Council [2019] NSWCA 74
Citation 21 (Para 27)

…evant, it will be governed by the Civil Liability Act . 16. (1994) 179 CLR 520; [1994] HCA 13. 17. Burnie Port Authority at 530-531, 534. 18. Fletcher v Rylands (1866) LR 1 Ex 265; affirmed, Rylands v Fletcher (1868) LR 3 HL 330. 19. Burnie Port Authority at 556. 20. Burnie Port Authority at 555.…
Tavitian v Commissioner of Highways [2018] SASC 179
Citation 22

…illiams v Miloton (1957) 97 CLR 465; Southport Corporation v Esso Petroleum Co Ltd [1954] 2 QB 182, applied. Reynolds v Clarke (1725) 92 Eng Rep 410; Fletcher v Rylands (1865) 159 Eng Rep 737; Nicholls v Ely Beet Sugar Factory [1931] 2 Ch 84, considered.…
Contact Energy Limited v Moreau [2018] NZHC 2884
Citation 23

…39 See for example Rylands v Fletcher (1866) LR 1 Ex 265.…
State of Queensland v Baker Superannuation Fund Pty Ltd; Aurizon Operations Limited v Baker Superannuation Fund Pty Ltd [2018] QCA 168
Citation 24

…8] UKHL 1, considered Sedleigh-Denfield v O’Callaghan [1940] AC 880; [1940] 3 All ER 349; [1940] UKHL 2, cited Warne v Nolan [2001] QSC 53, cited COUNSEL: J Horton QC, with M Eade, for Aurizon Operations Limited T Sullivan QC, with D Favell, for the State of Queensland G Gibson QC, with P Hackett, for Michael Vi…
Bettergrow Pty Limited v NSW Electricity Networks Operations Pty Ltd as trustee for NSW Electricity Networks Operations Trust t/as TransGrid (No 2) [2018] NSWSC 514
Citation 25 (Para 67)

…rejected the rule of strict liability of landowners for the escape of dangerous substances, and in particular fire, from their land established in Rylands v Fletcher (1866) LR 1 Exch 265; affd (1868) LR3HL 330.…
Minister of Education v H Construction North Island Ltd [2017] NZHC 3147
Citation 26

…12 Grant v NZMC Ltd [1989] 1 NZLR 8 (CA) at 8-12. 13 Rylands v Fletcher [1868] UKHL 1, (1868) LR 3 HL 330.…
Double J Smallwoods Limited v Gisborne District Council [2017] NZHC 1284
Citation 27

…2 Stephen Todd and others The Law of Torts in New Zealand (7th ed, Thomson Reuters, 2016) at [10.2.07] (citations omitted). 3 Fletcher v Rylands (1865) 3 H&C 774 (Exch); Fletcher v Rylands (1866) LR 1 Ex 265 (Exch Ch); and Rylands v Fletcher (1868) LR 3 HL 330 (HL).…
Michael Vincent Baker Superannuation Fund Pty Ltd v Aurizon Operations Limited [2017] QSC 26
Citation 28 (Para 1)

…me naturally upon the land from which the water flowed, as distinct from water artificially brought or concentrated there and allowed to escape as in Rylands v Fletcher (1828) 3 Bligh NS 414, Windeyer J (with whom Dixon CJ agreed) stated at 48-49: "With the above limitations in mind, the rights and obligations of the propri…
Campbell v Thomson [2015] NZHC 3026
Citation 29

…8 Rylands v Fletcher (1868) L.R. 3 H.L. 330 (HL). 9 Autex Industries Ltd v Auckland City Council [2000] NZAR 324 (CA). 10 Owens Transport Ltd v Watercare Services Ltd [2010] NZAR 568 (HC).…
Marsh v Baxter [2015] WASCA 169
Citation 30

…(1997) 80 FCR 19 Perre v Apand Pty Ltd [1999] HCA 36; (1999) 198 CLR 180 Pittar v Alvarez (1916) 16 SR (NSW) 618 Robinson v Kilvert (1889) 41 Ch D 88 Rylands v Fletcher (1866) LR 1 Ex 265; (1868) LR 3 HL 330 Shaddock & Associates Pty Ltd v Parramatta City Council (No 1) [1981] HCA 59; (1981) 150 CLR 225 Shaw v Thomas [2010]…
Collis v Hagelstein; Hagelstein v Slater [2015] NSWDC 351
Citation 31 (Para 15)

…the liability of Mr Slater is one which is determined according to the common law principles of negligence and not the older common law contained in Rylands v Fletcher (1868) LR 3 HL 330 (see Burnie Port Authority v General Jones Pty Ltd (1994) 179 CLR 520). Indeed, as Mr Toomey also pointed out, s 7 of the Animals Act 197…
Marsh v Baxter [2014] WASC 187
Citation 32

…205 CLR 254 Mount Isa Mines Ltd v Pusey (1970) 124 CLR 383 Oldham v Lawson (No 1) [1976] VR 654, 657 Perre v Apand [1999] HCA 36; (1999) 198 CLR 180 Rylands v Fletcher (1866) LR 1 Ex 265; (1868) LR 3 HL 330 Sedleigh-Denfield v O'Callaghan[1940] All ER 349; [1940] AC 880 Southern Properties (WA) Pty Ltd v Executive Director…
M and a Wood v C and R Christopherson [2013] NSWDC 233
Citation 33 (Para 1)

…Craig Christopherson in allocating tasks to his father or relying on his father to help farm Tulgeywood had a duty to his neighbours to exercise the care expected of a reasonably prudent person. The stringency with which that duty will be assessed depends on the task he expected to be performed. He …
Heymans v Reilly [2013] NSWDC 227
Citation 34

…er which came naturally upon the land on which it flows as distinct from water artificially brought or concentrated there and allowed to escape as in Rylands v Fletcher (1868) LR 3 HL 330.…
Keith Albert Lionel Holloway and Or v Newcastle City Council [2013] NSWDC 62
Citation 35

…e roots Legislation Cited: Civil Liability Act 2002 The Trees (Dispute Between Neighbours) Act 2006 Cases Cited: Robson v Leischke (2008) 72 NSWLR 98 Rylands v Fletcher (1886) LR 3HL 330 Burnie Port Authority v General Jones Pty Limited (1994) 179 CLR 520 Sedleigh-Denfield v O'Callaghan [1940] AC 880 Torette House Pty Ltd v…
Marsh v Baxter [2013] WASC 209
Citation 36

…Goldman v Hargrave [1967] 1 AC 13; [1966] UKPC 2 Perre v Apand Pty Ltd [1999] HCA 36; (1999) 198 CLR 180 Rylands v Fletcher [1868] UKHL 1; (1868) CR 3 HL 330 Weller & Co v Foot and Mouth Disease Research Institute [1966] 1 QB 569…
Hoxton Park Residents Action Group Inc v Liverpool City Council [2012] NSWSC 1026
Citation 37 (Para 1)

…Mr King pointed to Vincent v Peacock [1973] 1 NSWLR 466 (where an appeal against a refusal to grant injunctive relief for a nuisance comprised by noise from a drunken neighbour was upheld, the Court of Appeal noting that the law of nuisance is a protection to property without the assistance of which…
YOUNG & HAMMOND (Civil Dispute) [2012] ACAT 30
Citation 38

…3 Ch 1 Madden v Coy [1944] VLR 88 Mendez v Palazzi (1976) 68 DLR 582 Munro v Southern Dairies Ltd [1955] VLR 332 Plenty v Dillon (1991) 171 CLR 635 Rylands v Fletcher (1868) LR 3 HL 330 Shelfer v City of London Electric Lighting Co [1895] 1 Ch 283 Young v Wheeler [1987] Aust Torts Reports 80-126 Wheery v KB Hutcherson Pty L…
Southern Properties (WA) Pty Ltd v Executive Director of the Department of Conservation and Land Management [2012] WASCA 79
Citation 39 (Para 1)

…There are echoes in the appellants' statement of the duty of care of the former rule of strict liability in Rylands v Fletcher (1868) LR 3 HL 330, both in the terminology employed (unnatural or dangerous use) and in the absence of any reference to a requirement to exercise reasonable care. This links with the appellants' gr…
W v Eaton [2011] TASSC 4
Citation 40

…ling view was that there were torts other than negligence and nuisance that involved breaches of duty, eg a duty in relation to dangerous things: Rylands v Fletcher (1868) LR 3 HL 330. The words in question can be construed as referring to those other torts. · Legislative provisions of the type in question had their origin…
Quick v Alpine Nurseries Sales Pty Ltd [2010] NSWSC 1248
Citation 41

…distinction between a natural and a non-natural use seems to have come into the law at this point from Lord Cairns’ judgment in Rylands v. Fletcher [1868] UKHL 1; (1868) LR 3 HL 330, at pp 337-340 : see the article by Professor Newark in 24 Modern Law Review, 557. The concept involved is a difficult one; and in…
Keller v LED Technologies Pty Ltd [2010] FCAFC 55
Citation 42

…LR 231 Rural Press Ltd v Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (2002) 118 FCR 236 Rylands v Fletcher (1868) LR 3 HL 330 Said v Butt [1920] 3 KB 497 SW Hart & Co Pty Ltd v Edwards Hot Water Systems (1985) 159 CLR 466 The Koursk [1924] p140 Tobacco Institute of Australia Limited v Australian Federation of Consumer Or…
Rickard & Ors v Allianz Australia Insurance Ltd & Ors [2009] NSWSC 1115
Citation 43

…premises, although he did not know of the existence of the drain under the plaintiff's premises, should probably be attributed to the principle in Rylands v Fletcher (1868) LR3HL 330, although that principle was not mentioned in Humphries v Cousins. The strict liability which was imposed in Humphries v Cousins is probably…
Rail Corporation of New South Wales v Fluor Australia Pty Ltd [2008] NSWSC 1348
Citation 44

…ail Services Ltd v Taylor Young Partnership Ltd [2002] 1 WLR 1419 Fletcher v Rylands (1866) LR 1 Ex 265 Gunston v Lawley [2008] VSC 97 Jones v Dunkel (1959) 101 CLR 298 Kondis v State Transport Authority (1984) 154 CLR 672 Leichhardt Municipal Council v Montgomery (2007) 230 CLR 22. Lumbers v W Cook Pty Ltd (In Liquidation)…
Transfield Services (Australia) v Hall [2008] NSWCA 294
Citation 45

…ry v Holliday & Greenwood Ltd (1912) 28 TLR 494 Read v J Lyons & Co Ltd [1947] AC 156 Rylands v Fletcher (1868) LR 3 HL 330 Scott v Davis [2000] HCA 52; (2000) 204 CLR 333 State of New South Wales v Lepore [2003] HCA 4; (2003) 212 CLR 511 Stevens v Brodribb Sawmilling Company Pty Ltd [1986] HCA 1; (1986) 160 CLR 16 Stoneman…
Auckland District Law Society v D a Constable Syndicate 386 HC Auckland CIV 2005-404-004322 [2008] NZHC 2516
Citation 46

…I have no doubt that “error or omission” are intended to refer to non-negligent conduct giving rise to liability, for example the liability under Rylands v Fletcher (1868) L.R. 3 H.L. 330 or in conversion.…
Sutherland Shire Council v Becker [2006] NSWCA 344
Citation 47

…stralia (1951) 51 SR (NSW) 63 Richardson v West Lindsey District Council [1990] 1 WLR 522 Rylands v Fletcher (1868) LR3HL 330 Sedleigh-Denfield v O’Callaghan & Ors [1940] AC 880 Sheppard v Glossop Corporation [1921] 3 KB 132 Smith v Eurobodalla Shire Council & Anor [2005] NSWCA 89 Stoneman v Lyons (1975) 133 CLR 550 Stovin…
Stingel v Clark [2006] HCA 37
Citation 48 (Para 24)

…n "absolute duty" to take measures to prevent them from doing damage[62]. [59][2002] 2 IR 360 at 367. [60][1932] AC 562. [61](1866) LR 1 Ex 265; affd Rylands v Fletcher (1868) LR 3 HL 330. [62] Buckle v Holmes [1926] 2 KB 125 at 128; Draper v Hodder [1972] 2 QB 556 at 569; Jones v Linnett [1984] 1 Qd R 570 at 574‑575.…
A D & S M McLean Pty Ltd v Meech [2005] VSCA 305
Citation 49

…[53]“which he knows to be mischievous if it gets on his neighbour’s [property]”: Fletcher v Rylands (1866), L.R.1 Ex., at p. 280.…
Parissis v Bourke [2004] NSWCA 373
Citation 50

…CITATION: PARISSIS & ORS v. BOURKE [2004] NSWCA 373 HEARING DATE(S): 07/10/2004 JUDGMENT DATE: 23 November 2004 JUDGMENT OF: Mason P at 1; Tobias JA at 2; Bryson JA at 11 DECISION: Appeal allowed with costs. CATCHWORDS: NEGLIGENCE- Occupiers liability- Householders allowed their son aged 18 to hold …

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