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Contract law
Adams v Lindsell (Postal acceptance rule)
Balfour v Balfour (Intention to create legal relations)
BP Westernport v Hastings (Implied terms)
Carlill v Carbolic Smoke Ball (Unilateral offers)
Curtis v Chemical Cleaning Co (Exclusion clauses)
Cutter v Powell (Completion of contracts)
Felthouse v Bindley (Acceptance by silence)
Hadley v Baxendale (Damages in contract)
Krell v Henry (Frustration of contracts)
L'Estrange v Graucob (Signatures are binding)
Peters v Fleming (Necessaries)
Tort law
Battiano v Lagana (Battery)
Brimelow v Casson (Procuring breach of contract)
Cole v Turner (Battery)
DC Thomson v Deakin (Procuring breach of contract)
Gordon v Harper (Detinue)
Meering v Grahame-White Aviation (False imprisonment)
Rylands v Fletcher (Strict liability trespass)
Scott v Shepherd (Directness of damage)
Constitutional law
Boots Employees v Whybrow (s.109 inconsistency)
First Uniform Tax Case (Tax power, tied grants)
Criminal law
R v Holland (Sleepwalking defence)
Equity law
ACCC v Berbatis (Unconscionable conduct)
Commercial Bank v Amadio (Unconscionability)
Hospital Products v US Surgical Corp (Fiduciary duties)
Waltons v Maher (Estoppel)
Negligence law
Bolton v Stone (Duty of care)
Chapman v Hearse (Foreseeability)
Donoghue v Stevenson (Negligence)
Grant v Australian Knitting Mills (Negligence)
Hedley Byrne v Heller (Negligent Misstatement)
Administrative law
Associated Picture Houses v Wednesbury Corp (Unreasonableness)
International law
The Caroline (International self-defence)
SS Lotus (Limits of international law)
UK v Norway (Fisheries Case) (Customary International Law)
Statutory Interpretation
Grey v Pearson (The golden rule)
Heydon's Case (Mischief Rule)
Hilder v Dexter (Purposive interpretation)
R v Home Department (Legality principle)
The King v Berchet (Words in statutes)
King v Melling (Noscitur a sociis)
The King v Storrington (Expressio unius)
Mills v Meeking (Purposive Approach)
Project Blue Sky v Aust Broadcasting Auth. (Acts to be read as a whole)
Sandiman v Breach (Ejusdem Generis)
Sussex Peerage Case (Literal interpretation)
Succession
Dodd v Lang (Signatures on wills)
Family law
Rice v Asplund (Reviewing parenting orders)
Corporations law
EPA v Caltex (Corporations self-incrimination privilege)
In re Noel Tedman Holdings (Corporations without members)
Salomon v Salomon (Corporate personality)
Sutton's Hospital Case (Capacity of a corporation)
Environment law
Booth v Bosworth (Biodiversity)
Anti-discrimination law
Ansett v Wardley (Sex discrimination)
Roman law
Marriage Act Case (Filii Familias)
Consumer law
Pro Teeth Whitening v Parlsec to Treasurer (Product recall powers)
Property law
Victoria Park v Taylor (Property in a spectacle)
Yanner v Eaton (Crocodiles as property)
Employment law
Gregory v Phillip Morris (Unfair dismissal)
Defamation law
Random House v Abbott (Defamatory innuendo)
Land law
Gifford v Yarborough (Accretion)
Parliamentary law
Sheriff of Middlesex (Contempt of Parliament)
Evidence law
In re Van Beelen (Relevance)
Human Rights law
Kyprianou v Cyprus (Fair trial)
Civil Procedure
The Mareva (Freezing orders)
Aviation law
ACQ Pty Ltd v Cook (Damage by aircraft incidents)
Neal v Department of Transport (Pilot Mental Health)
Coronial law
Re Malcolm (Coroners and cause of death)
Sharia law
Mohamed v Mohamed (Mahr in Australia)
Insolvency law
Ponsford Baker v London & Smith's Bank (Doctrine of relation back)
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