Federal Court of Australia
FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA
Granitgard Pty Ltd ACN 007 427 590 v Termicide Pest Control Pty Ltd ACN 093 837 337 (No 5) [2010] FCA 313 Citation: Granitgard Pty Ltd ACN 007 427 590 v Termicide Pest Control Pty Ltd ACN 093 837 337 (No 5) [2010] FCA 313
Parties: GRANITGARD PTY LTD ACN 007 427 590 v TERMICIDE PEST CONTROL PTY LTD ACN 093 837 337
File number: QUD 312 of 2007
Judge: LOGAN J
Date of judgment: 31 March 2010
Catchwords: TRADE PRACTICES - Misleading or deceptive conduct - Passing on of information supplied by someone else - Whether company adopts statements of another through display on website - Where company neither expressly adopts nor expressly disclaims those statements - Held an objective assessment should be made of whether the company adopts such statements - Held in absence of own language, company cannot have been taken to have adopted the statements - Trade Practices Act 1974 (Cth), ss 51A, 52 and 53
Legislation: Trade Practices Act 1974 (Cth) ss 51A, 52, 53
Cases cited: H 1976 Nominees Pty Ltd v Galli (1979) 40 FLR 242 cited Trade Practices Commission v David Jones (Australia) Pty Ltd (1985) 7 FCR 109 cited Granitgard Pty Ltd ACN 007 427 590 v Termicide Pest Control Pty Ltd ACN 093 837 337 [2008] FCA 55 cited Granitgard Pty Ltd ACN 007 427 590 v Termicide Pest Control Pty Ltd ACN 093 837 337 [2008] FCA 865 cited Granitgard Pty Ltd ACN 007 427 590 v Termicide Pest Control Pty Ltd ACN 093 837 337 (No 3) [2009] FCA 82 cited Butcher v Lachlan Elder Realty Pty Ltd (2004) 218 CLR 592 considered Yorke v Lucas (1985) 158 CLR 661 considered Gardam v George Willis & Co Ltd (1988) 82 ALR 415 considered Charben Haulege Pty Ltd v Environmental & Earth Sciences Pty Ltd [2004] FCA 403 considered Caltex Australia Petroleum Pty Ltd v Charben Haulege Pty Ltd [2005] FCAFC 271 cited McGrath v Australian Naturalcare Products Pty Ltd (2008) 165 FCR 230 considered James v Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Ltd (1986) 64 ALR 347 cited Miller RV, Miller's Annotated Trade Practices Act (31st ed, Thomson Reuters, 2010)
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