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| Venning v Chin (1974) 10 SASR 299 | show 🗑
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| show | Affirms negligent trespass in Australian law.
Negligent trespass carries the same burden of proof as trespass/intentional tort — ie the plaintiff must prove the facts/directness of the act, and the defendant must prove lack of fault.
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| show | Trespass must be by voluntary action.
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| show | The relationship between the injury suffered and the act must be sufficiently direct.
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| Scott v Shepherd (The Squib Case) [1773] 96 Eng. Rep. 525 | show 🗑
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| show | In a sporting context, actions outside the rules of the game are not subject to implied consent.
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| Morris v Marsden (1952) 1 ALL ER 925 | show 🗑
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| show | An unintentional action can become intentional.
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| show | In determining damages for defamation, social media's amplification of the 'grapevine effect' may be taken into consideration.
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| show | Pulling a chair out from beneath a person is sufficiently direct to constitute battery.
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| show | Consent is assessed objectively.
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| show | Contact falling within everyday acceptable standards does not constitute battery.
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| Hunter v Canary Wharf [1997] UKHL 14 | show 🗑
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| Myer Stores & Ors v Soo (1991) 2 VR 597 | show 🗑
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| Symes v Mahon [1922] SASR 447 | show 🗑
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| Hart v Heron [1984] Aust Torts Reports 80–201 (NSWSC) | show 🗑
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| Ruddock v Taylor [2003] NSWCA 262 | show 🗑
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| Flewster v Royale (1808) 1 Camp 187 | show 🗑
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| March v E & MH Stramare Pyt Ltd (1991) 171 CLR 506 | show 🗑
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| Hackshaw v Shaw (1984) 155 CLR 614 | show 🗑
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| Platt v Nutt (1988) 12 NSWLR 231 | show 🗑
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| McHale v Watson (1966) 115 CLR 199 | show 🗑
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| show | For false imprisonment to be proved, restraint must have been total.
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| show | A person's liberty may be temporarily surrendered under contractual arrangement.
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| show | False imprisonment must follow directly upon the defendant's act.
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| Sayers v Harlow UDC [1958] 1 WLR 623 | show 🗑
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| Slaveski v Victoria [2010] VSC 441 | show 🗑
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| Zanker v Vartzokas (1988) 34 A Crim R 11 | show 🗑
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| show | Threats made over the phone may constitute assault depending on surrounding circumstances.
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| R v Ireland [1997] QB 114 | show 🗑
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| Chief Constable of Thames Valley Police v Hepburn [2002] EWCA Civ 1841 | show 🗑
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| show | Employers may be vicariously liable for exemplary and aggravated damages.
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| show | An intermediate discretionary act between the defendant and a third party restraining the plaintiff will break the directness required for vicarious liability in false imprisonment.
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