Wright, Tim --- "The Special Wives' Equity and the Struggle For Women's Equality" [2006] AltLawJl 17; (2006) 31(2) Alternative Law Journal 66
[*] TIM WRIGHT is a student at the University of Melbourne and editor of Time for Change: Australia in the 21st Century (Hardie Grant Publishing, 2006; proceeds to Oxfam).
© 2006 Tim Wright
email: timwright85@yahoo.com.au
[1] Yerkey v Jones [1939] HCA 3; (1939) 63 CLR 649, 684–5 (‘Yerkey’).
[2] Elizabeth Stone, ‘Infants, Lunatics and Married Women: Equitable Protection; Garcia v National Australia Bank Ltd’ (1999) 62(4) Modern Law Review 604, 606.
[3] For judicial critique see European Asian of Australia Ltd v Kurland (1985) 8 NSWLR 192; Akins v National Australia Bank Ltd (1994) 34 NSWLR 155; Gregg v Tasmanian Trustees Ltd [1997] FCA 128; (1997) 143 ALR 328; Miles v Shell Company of Australia (1998) 156 ALR 133.
[4] [1998] HCA 48; (1998) 155 ALR 614 (‘Garcia’).
[5] Ibid 620.
[6] [2004] HCA Trans 211 (18 June 2004) (‘Kranz’).
[7] Ibid [15], [18], [31], [44].
[9] [2001] UKHL 44 (‘Etridge’).
[10] Ibid [86].
[11] Ibid [87]–[89].
[12] Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC), Equality before the Law: Women’s Equality (Part II), Report No 69 (1994) [13.25].
[13] [1993] UKHL 6; [1994] 1 AC 180, 195 (‘O’Brien’).
[14] [1998] HCA 48; (1998) 155 ALR 614, 641.
[15] ALRC, above n 12.
[16] Dianne Otto, ‘A Barren Future? Equity’s Conscience and Women’s Inequality’ [1992] MelbULawRw 19; (1992) 18 Melbourne University Law Review 808, 808.
[17] [1983] HCA 14; (1983) 46 ALR 402.
[18] Otto, above n 16, 809.
[19] Kristie Dunn, ‘Yakking Giants: Equality Discourse in the High Court’ [2000] MelbULawRw 16; (2000) 24(2) Melbourne University Law Review 427, 430.
[20] Patricia Easteal. Less than Equal: Women and the Australian Legal System (2001) xi.
[21] Dunn, above n 19, 454–7.
[22] Mary Gaudron in Regina Graycar and Jenny Morgan, The Hidden Gender of Law (2nd ed, 2002) vii.
[23] Clement Shum, ‘Protection of Married Women as Guarantors’ (1996) 14 Australian Bar Review 229, 231.
[24] Warburton v Whiteley (1989) NSW Conv R 55, 293 (per Clarke JA).
[25] Michael Bryan, ‘Setting Aside Guarantees: Reviving an Old Equity’ (1999) Lloyd’s Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly 327, 332.
[26] Belinda Fehlberg, ‘Australian Law and Surety Wives: Garcia v National Australia Bank Ltd’ (1999) 15 Banking and Finance Law Review 161, 170.
[27] Opened for signature 18 December 1979, 1249 UNTS 13 (entered into force 3 September 1981) art 5(a). See also art 10(c).
[29] Mary Joe Frug, ‘Re-reading Contracts: A Feminist Analysis of a Contracts Casebook’ (1985) 34 American University Law Review 1065, 1089–93.
[30] Anthony Duggan, ‘Till Debts Do Us Part: A Note on National Australia Bank Ltd v Garcia’ [1997] SydLawRw 12; (1997) 19 Sydney Law Review 220, 225.
[31] Ibid 225–6.
[32] Samantha Hepburn, ‘The Yerkey Principle and Relationships of Trust and Confidence: Garcia v National Australia Bank Ltd’ (1997) 4 Deakin Law Review 99, 110.
[33] Garcia [1998] HCA 48; (1998) 155 ALR 614, 635.
[34] Shum, above n 23.
[35] (1985) 8 NSWLR 192, 200.
[36] Lucinda Finley, ‘Breaking Women’s Silence in Law: The Dilemma of the Gendered Nature of Legal Reasoning’ (1989) 64 Notre Dame Law Review 886, 898.
[37] Garcia [1998] HCA 48; (1998) 155 ALR 614, 619.
[38] Dunn, above n 19, 430.
[39] Hepburn, above n 32, 101.
[40] [1993] UKHL 6; [1994] 1 AC 180, 185.
[41] Garcia [1998] HCA 48; (1998) 155 ALR 614, 619.
[42] Ibid 638 (per Kirby J).
[43] Graycar and Morgan, above n 22, 8–9.
[44] Garcia [1998] HCA 48; (1998) 155 ALR 614, 636.
[45] State Bank of New South Wales v Hibbert [2000] NSWSC 628 at [53]–[55].
[46] Garcia [1998] HCA 48; (1998) 155 ALR 614, 620.
[47] Yerkey [1939] HCA 3; (1939) 63 CLR 649, 663.
[48] [1998] HCA 48; (1998) 155 ALR 614, 634.