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Clayton v Regina: 13 Dec 2006

Kirby J said that waiting for a modern Parliament to grapple with issues of law reform is like ‘waiting for the Greek Kalends. It will not happen’ and that ‘Eventually courts must accept this and shoulder their own responsibility for the state of the common law’.

Judges:

Gummow, Kirby, Hayne, Callinan, Heydon and Crennan Jj

Citations:

[2006] HCA 58, (2006) 231 ALR 500, (2006) 81 ALJR 439

Links:

Austlii

Jurisdiction:

Australia

Cited by:

CitedPatel v Mirza SC 20-Jul-2016
The claimant advanced funds to the respondent for him to invest in a bank of which the claimant had insider knowledge. In fact the defendant did not invest the funds, the knowledge was incorrect. The defendant however did not return the sums . .
Lists of cited by and citing cases may be incomplete.

Constitutional

Updated: 02 May 2022; Ref: scu.676818

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