New Zealand Law/Tort

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Accident Compensation

Statutes

Injury Prevention Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2001

• Injury Prevention Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2001

Cases

Walbutton v ACC

• Held

An accident is an event that is not intended by the person who suffers the misfortune.

ACC v Mitchell

• Held

There is no need to show that an accident is caused by some external force. (Reversed by s3(a) 1992 Act)

ACC v F

• Facts

Husband sued for depression brought on by wife's injury.

• Held

While the husband's depression was an unlooked for mishap, the husband’s injury was not the relevant accident and mental injury must accompany physical injury.

ACC v E

Facts: E was required by her workplace to undergo a management course by her employer and subsequently suffered suffered mental breakdown.

Held: E was initially turned down for cover under the ACC scheme because it was thought that the scheme only covered mental injury which was accompanied by a physical injury. Court of Appeal overturned the decision, deciding "physical and mental" was to be interpreted generously, to be applied as "physical or mental." This indicates the courts desire to interpret ACC legislation with wide breadth.

Brownlie v Good Health Wanganui (2005) CA

• Held

Non-treatment is as much medical misadventure as negligent treatment

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A v Bottril [2003] 2 NZLR 721 (PC)

see A v Bottril

Articles

• Margaret McGregor Vennell "Accident Compensation" [1992] NZ Recent LR 1
• Manning [1992] NZ Recent LR 10
• Geoff McLay "Nervous Shock, Tort and Accident Compensation: Tort regained?" (1999) 30 VUWLR 197
• Manning "Daniels v Thompson: Double Punishment or Double Trouble?" [1998] New Zealand L Rev 721
• Richard Gaskins "Recalling the Future of ACC" [2000] VUWLR 17
• Stephen Todd "Exemplary Damages" (1998) 18 NZULR 145
• Ailsa Duffy "Common Law Response to the Accident Compensation Scheme" [2003] VUWLR 21

Negligence

Cases

Duty of Care

• Anns v Merton LBC
• South Pacific v NZ Security
• Spring v Guardian Assocs
• Midland Metals v ChCh Press
• Rolls Royce v CHH

Auditors - Negligent Misstatement

• Scott Group v McFarlane
• Caparo v Dickman
• Boyd Knight v Purdue

Auditors - Other

• Price Waterhouse v Kwan
• Deloitte Haskins & Sells v National Mutual Life
• Wellington District Law Soc v PW

Council liability

• Anns v Merton LBC
• Bowen v Paramount Builders
• Brown v Heathcote CC
• Murphy v Brentwood DC
• Invercargill CC v Hamlin
• Three Meade St v Rotorua DC

Cases v Govt #1

• X v Bedforshire CC (1995)

• AG v Prince (1998)

• Barrett v Enfield LBC (1999)

• W v Essex CC (2000)
• B v Attorney-General (2004) 3 NZLR 145 (PC)

Cases v Govt #2

• A-G v Carter (2003)
• A-G v Body Corporate (2005)
• Tai Hobson v A-G (2006)

Nervous Shock

• Alcock v Chief Constable of South Yorkshire
• Van Soest v Residentical Health Mgt Unit
• W v Essex CC

Tort v Contractual Remedies

• Henderson v Merrett Syndicates
• Turton v Kuslake
• Rolls Royce NZ v CH

Limitation Period

• Invercargill CC v Hamlin

Nuisance

Private Nuisance

Hunter v Canary Wharf [1997] AC 655

Hunter v Canary Wharf

Rylands v Fletcher Nuisance

Rylands v Fletcher [1866] LR 1 Ex 265

• see Rylands v Fletcher

Rickards v Lothian [1913] AC 263

• Facts

An unknown person intentionally blocked a drain on the defendant's property causing water to overflow and damage the plaintiff's stock.

• Held:

1. An exception to Rylands & Fletcher liability - a person is not responsible for the acts of third parties.

2. Water supply and conveniences are not non-natural uses.

Hamilton v Papakura District Council [2000] 1 NZLR 265

see Hamilton v Papakura District Council

Transco PLC v Stockport MBC [2004] 2 AC 1

see Transco PLC v Stockport MBC

Defamation

Statutes

• Defamation Act 1992

Cases

• Charleston v News Group Newspapers Ltd [1995] 2 AC 65
• Mount Cook Group Ltd v Johnstone Motors [1990] 2 NZLR 488
• Templeton v Jones [1984] 1 NZLR 448
• Prebble v TVNZ [1994] 3 NZLR 1
• Jennings v Buchanan [2005] 2 NZLR 577
• Lange v Atkinson [1998] 3 NZLR 424 (CA)
• Reynolds v Times Newspapers [1999] 4 All ER 609 (HL)
• Lange v Atkinson [2000] 1 NZLR 257 (PC)
• Lange v Atkinson [2000] 3 NZLR 385 (CA)
• Vickery v McLean (2000) unreported, Court of Appeal, CA 125/00

Privacy

• Hosking v Runting [2005] 1 NZLR 1
• TVNZ v Haines (2005), CA 71/04

Vicarious Liability

• S v Attorney-General [2003] 3 NZLR 450 (CA)
• W v Attorney-General (2003) unreported, CA 227/02

See also

• Contract
• Criminal
• Equity
• New Zealand Legal System
• Property