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A

AGC (Advances) Ltd v McWhirter (1977) 1 BLR 9454
Agreement - auction (offer v invitation to deal)

Administration of PNG v Leahy
Intention to create legal relations - government

Air Great Lakes Pty Ltd v KS Easter (Holdings) Pty Ltd [1989] 2 NSWLR 309
Intention to create legal relations - objective test

ANZ v Frost Holdings Pty Ltd [1989] VR 695
Agreement - uncertainty

Astley v Austrust Limited (2000) 197 CLR 1; [1999] HCA 6 (4 March 1999)
Implied terms

Australian Woollen Mills Pty Ltd v The Commonwealth (1954) 92 CLR 424
Formation - agreement, consideration, intention

B

Balfour v Balfour [1919] 2 KB 571
Intention to create legal relations

Baltic Shipping Co v Dillon (1993) 176 CLR 344
Availability of damages for mental distress

Beaton v McDivitt (1987) 13 NSWLR 162
Consideration v Condition

Biotechnology Australia Pty Ltd v Pace (1988) 15 NSWLR 130
Uncertainty - Illusory promise

Blackpool & Flyde Aero Club v Blackpool Borough Council [1990] 3 All ER 25
Offer v invitation to deal

Blomley v Ryan (1954) 99 CLR 362
Capacity - Intoxication

Bressan v Squires [1974] 2 NSWLR 460
Acceptance (form - communication)

Brinkibon Ltd v Stahag Stahl und Stahlwarenhandelsgessellschaft mbH [1983] 2 AC 34 (House of Lords)
Acceptance - Postal Rule

Butler Machine Tool Co Ltd v Ex-Cell-O Corp (England) Ltd [1979] 1 WLR 401
Agreement - battle of the forms

Byrne v Van Tienhoven (1880) LR 5 CPD 344
Agreement - revocation - postal rule

 

C

Carlill v Carbolic Smoke Ball Co [1893] 1 QB 256
Offer - acceptance - consideration

Central London v High Trees [1947] KB
Promissory Estoppel

Chappell & Co Ltd v Neslte Co Ltd
Consideration - anythign stipulated (peppercorn case)

Clarke v Dunraven [1897] AC 59
Agreement with no identifiable offer or acceptance

Coal Cliffs Collieries Pty Ltd v Sijehama Pty Ltd (1991) NSWLR 1
Certainty - agreements to negotiate

Council of the Upper Hunter County District v Australian Chilling & Freezing Co Ltd (1967) 118 CLR 429
Certainty

Crown v Clarke (1927) 40 CLR 227
Acceptance in response to offer

 

D

Daulia Ltd v Four Millbank Nominees Ltd [1978] 2 All ER 557
Acceptance of unilateral contracts

Demagogue Pty Ltd v Ramensky (1992) 39 FCR 31
Misleading or Deceptive Conduct

Dickinson v Dodds (1876) 2 Ch D 46
Offer - revocation - option

Dunlop Pneumatic Tyre Co Ltd v Selfridge and Co Ltd [1915] AC 847
Privity of contract

Dunton v Dunton (1892) 18 VLR 114
Consideration - giving up freedom

 

E

Effem Foods Pty Limited v Lake Cumbeline Pty Limited [1999] HCA 15 (14 April 1999)
Misleading or Deceptive Conduct

Empirnall Holdings Pty Ltd v Machon Paull Partners Pty Ltd (1988) 14 NSWLR 523
Acceptance - silence

Entores Ltd v Miles Far East Corporation [1955] 2 ALL ER 493

Ermogenous v Greek Orthodox Community of SA Inc [2002] 209 CLR 95
Intention to create legal relations - use of presumptions

Errington v Errington [1952] 1 KB 290
Unilateral contract

 

F

Fauzi Elias v George Sahely & Co (Barbados) Ltd [1983] 1 AC 646
Formalities - use of two documents to comply with formaliteis

Felthouse v Bindley (1862) 142 ER 1037
Acceptance by silence

Fitzgerald v F J Leonhardt Pty Ltd [1997] HCA (13 May 1997)
Illegality

Foakes v Beer (1884) 9 App Cas 605
Consideration - Part payment of a debt

 

G

Garcia v National Australia Bank Limited [1998] HCA 48
Undue Influence

Gibbons v Wright (1954) 91 CLR 423
Capacity

Glasbrook v Glamorgan County Council [1925] AC 270
Consideration - Performance of existing public duties

Godecke v Kirwan (1973) 129 CLR 629
Certainty

 

H

Hadley v Baxendale (1854) 9 Ex 341
Damages - Remoteness

Hamer v Sidway (1881) 124 NY 538
Consideration - giving up freedom

Harrington v Taylor 36 SE 2d 227 (1945)
Past consideration

Hart v O'Connor [1985] 1 AC 1000
Capacity

Hyde v Wrench (1840) Beav 334
Agreement - counter-offer

 

I

Forthcoming

 

J

JC Williamson Ltd v Lukey & Mulholland (1931) 45 CLR 282
Formalities - doctrine of part performance - doctrine of specific performance

Johnson v Buttress (1936) 56 CLR 113

Jones v Padavatton [1969] 2 All ER 616
Intention to create legal relations

 

K

Forthcoming

 

L

Latella v LJ Hooker Ltd (1985) 5 FCR 146
Forthcoming

Legione v Hateley (1983) 152 CLR 406
Forthcoming

The Life Insurance Co of Australia v Phillips (1925) 36 CLR 60

Louth v Diprose (1992) 175 CLR 621
Forthcoming

Luna Park (NSW) Ltd v Tramways Advertising Pty Lt (1938) 61 CLR 28
Forthcoming

 

M

Maguire v Makaronis [1997] HCA (25 June 1997)
Forthcoming

Manchester Diocesan Council for Education v Commercial & General Investments Ltd [1970] 1 WLR 241

Acceptance (form)

Marks v GIO Australia Holdings Limited [1998] HCA 69 (11 November 1998)
Forthcoming

Masters v Cameron (1954) 91 CLR 353
Forthcoming

Maxitherm Boilers Pty Ltd v Pacific Dunlop Ltd [1998] 4 VR 559
Agreement - Battle of the forms

McBride v Sandland (1918) 25 CLR 69
Formalities - part performance

McDonald v. Dennys Lascelles Ltd (1933) 48 CLR 457
Forthcoming

McRae v. Commonwealth Disposals Commission (1951) 84 CLR 377
Forthcoming

Meehan v Jones (1982) 149 CLR 571
Forthcoming

Mills v. Meeking (1990) 169 CLR 214
Forthcoming

Mobil Oil Australia Ltd v Lyndel Nominees Pty Ltd [1998] 205 FCA
Forthcoming

Mobil Oil Australia v Wellcome International (1998) 81 FCR 475

Money v Westpac Banking Corporation (1988) ATPR (Digest) 46-038
Forthcoming

Musumeci v Winadell Pty Ltd (1994) 34 NSWLR 723
Consideration - performance of existing duties

 

N

Nash v Inman [1908] 2 KB 1
Capacity - minors

National Australia Bank Ltd v. Garcia (1996) 39 NSWLR 577
Forthcoming

Nelson v Nelson [1995] HCA (10 May 1995)
Forthcoming

News Limited v. Australian Rugby Football League Ltd (1996) 139 ALR 193
Forthcoming

 

O

Forthcoming

 

P

Pao On v Lau Yiu Long [1979] 3 WLR 435
Past consideration - exception to general rule

Pavey & Mathews v Paul (1987) 162 CLR 221
Forthcoming

Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain v Boots Cash Chemists (Southern)
Offer v Invitation to deal

Photo Production Ltd v Securicor Transport Ltd [1980] 1 All ER 556
Forthcoming

Popiw v Popiw [1959] VR 197
Consideration

 

Q

Forthcoming

R

Raffles v Wichelhaus (1864) 2 H & C 906
Agreeement - certainty - mistake

Regent v Millett (1976) 133 CLR 679
Formation - part performance

Roscorla v Thomas (1842) 3 QB 234
Past consideration

Rose & Frank & Co v Crompton [1923] 2 KB 261
Intention to create legal relations - Honour clauses

 

S

Scammell v Ousten [1941] AC 251

Stilk v Myrick 1809 2 Camp 317
Consideration - performance of existing duties

 

T

Tweddle v Atkinson (1861) 1 B & S 393; [1861-1873] All ER Rep 369
Privity of Contract - Consideration

 

U

Forthcoming

 

V

Forthcoming

 

W

Walford v Miles [1992] 2 AC 128

Wigan v Edwards (1973)
Consideration - giving up a legal right

Walton Stores (Interstate) Ltd v Maher (1988) 76 ALR 513
Promissory Estoppel

Williams v Roffey Bros and Nicholls (Contractors) Pty Ltd (1990) 1 All ER 512
Consideration - performance of existing duties


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Forthcoming

 

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