Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2005 10:52:45

From: Andrew Tettenborn

Subject: High Court of Australia - no breach in "garage sale" case

Neil Foster wrote:

On a lighter note, I had a mini-competition in my Torts class this year to see who could come up with torts cases the name of which tells you something about the facts of the case. As I recall two classic examples were Burnie Port Authority v General Jones (involves a fire) and Kars v Kars (a motor vehicle negligence case). I also used this case (which we discussed when it was at the SA Full Court level). Any other ideas for similar cases?

On the competition, I'd add a couple of English ones:

Haigh v Wright Hassall & Co [1994] E.G.C.S. 54 (solicitors' cock-up)

Bollinger v Costa Brava Wine Co [1960] Ch. 262 (the name of this passing-off case tells you what it's about and suggests the -- correct -- result).

Andrew

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