In 1995, the High Court in Bryan v Maloney [1] held that a builder in Tasmania was liable in negligence to compensate a plaintiff for economic loss she had suffered in purchasing a house, which was discovered to have defective foundations. The house had been built by the defendant for…
CONSTITUTIONAL LAW – OPERATION AND EFFECT OF THE COMMONWEALTH CONSTITUTION – INCONSISTENCY OF LAWS (CONSTITUTION, s 109) – GENERALLY – TEST FOR INCONSISTENCY – where a Commonwealth Act requires the agent of a State branch of a registered political party to furnish a return with particulars of receipts of more…
MONEY – PAYMENT – OTHER MATTERS – where the plaintiffs transferred their respective interests in the farm to the defendants as joint tenants – where the terms upon which that transfer occurred were in dispute – whether the defendants agreed to pay $250,000 for the first plaintiff’s share. EVIDENCE –…