Federal Court of Australia
FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA EVIDENCE – Evidence Act 1995 (Cth) - client legal privilege – derivative modification of common law – circumstances in which a party is to be taken to have consented to disclosure of the contents of confidential legal advice – relevance of a plea of reliance on representations – confidential legal advice as a factor influencing state of mind – issue incapable of fair resolution without reference to confidential legal advice.
Evidence Act 1995 (Cth), ss 118, 122 Adelaide Steamship Co Ltd v Spalvins (1998) 152 ALR 418, followed Australian Securities Commission v Marlborough Gold Mines Limited (1993) 177 CLR 485, cited Akins v Abigroup Ltd (New South Wales Court of Appeal, 1 June 1998, unreported), followed Attorney General for the Northern Territory v Maurice (1986) 161 CLR 475, cited Goldberg v Ng (1995) 185 CLR 83, cited Noriah v Shaik Allie Bin Omar [1929] AC 127, cited Powell v Powell [1900] 1 Ch 243, cited Watkins v Combes (1922) 30 CLR 180, cited Bester v Perpetual Trustee Co Ltd [1970] 3 NSWR 30, cited Lillicrap v Nalder & Son [1993] 1 WLR 94, cited Hongkong Bank of Australia Ltd v Murphy [1993] 2 VR 419, cited Pickering v Edmunds (1994) 63 SASR 357, cited Ampolex Ltd v Perpetual Trustee Co (Canberra) Ltd (1995) 37 NSWLR 405, cited Benecke v National Australia Bank (1993) 35 NSWLR 110, cited Commercial Bank of Australia Limited v Amadio (1983) 151 CLR 447, cited United States Surgical Corp. v Hospital Products International Pty Ltd (McLelland J, 13 October 1981, reported in Ritchie's Supreme Court Procedure (NSW), at 8545), followed Carter v Northmore Hale Davy & Leake (1995) 183 CLR 121, cited Waterford v The Commonwealth (1987) 163 CLR 54, cited Kennedy v Lyell (1883) 23 Ch D 387, cited Lyell v Kennedy (No. 2) (1883) 9 App Cas 81, cited Thomason v Council of the Municipality of Campbelltown (1939) 39 SR (NSW) 347, cited TELSTRA CORPORATION LIMITED & ANOR v BT AUSTRALASIA PTY LIMITED & ANOR NG 280 of 1998 NG 299 of 1998 BEAUMONT, BRANSON AND LEHANE JJ SYDNEY 24 JULY 1998
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