Burston, Matthew --- "Robb Evans of Robb Evans and Associates v European Bank Ltd" [2004] SydLawRw 19; (2004) 26(3) Sydney Law Review 439
* BA, final year student, Faculty of Law, University of Sydney. I would like to thank Ross Anderson for his advice with this note. Any errors remain mine. I Government of India v Taylor [1955] AC 491; Regazzoni v KC Sethia (1944) Ltd [1958] AC 301.
[2] Attorney–General (UK) v Heinemann Publishers Australia Pty Ltd (No 2) [1988] HCA 25; (1988) 165 CLR 30
at 44–45.
[3] Ibid.
[6] The United States District Court for the Central District of California, Western Division.
[7] Evans and Associates v Citibank Ltd [2003] NSWSC 204 at para 8.
[8] Id at para 45.
[9] Id at para 82.
[10] Id at para 83.
[11] Id at para 84.
[12] Ibid.
[13] Id at para 86.
[14] Id at para 88.
[15] Id at para 91.
[16] Id at para 37.
[17] Id at para 42.
[18] Id at para 44.
[19] Id at para 45.
[20] Id at para 86.
[21] Id at para 56.
[22] 120 NE 198 (1918).
[23] Evans, above n4 at para 51.
[24] Id at para 87.
[25] Id at para 74–83.
[26] Id at para 89.
[27] Id at para 85.
[28] Heinemann, above n2 at 40–2.
[29] Attorney–General (New Zealand) v Ortiz [1984] AC 1 at 20–1 (Lord Denning MR); Nanus Asia Co v Standard Chartered Bank [1990] 1 HKLR 396.
[30] Heinemann, above n2 at 44.
[31] Ibid.
[32] Petrotimor Companhia de Petroleos SARL v Commonwealth of Australia [2003] FCAFC 3.
[33] Id at para 160.
[34] Evans, above n4 at para 46; Peter Nygh & Martin Davies, Conflict of Laws in Australia (7th ed, 2002) at [18.14]; Lawrence Collins (ed), Dicey and Morris on the Conflict of Laws (13th ed, 2000) at [5–036].
[35] Evans, ibid.
[36] Regie Nationale des Usines Renault SA v Zhang [2002] HCA 10 at para 63.
[37] [2000] HCA 36; (2000) 172 ALR 625.
[38] Renault, above n36 at para 63.
[39] Ibid; Catherine Walsh, ‘Territoriality and Choice of Law in the Supreme Court of Canada: Applications in Products Liability Claims’ (1997) 76 Canadian Bar Review 91 at 110.
[40] Geoffrey Lindell, ‘Regie Nationale des Usines Renault SA v Zhang: Choice of Law in Torts and Another Farewell to Phillips v Eyre but the Voth Test Retained for Forum Non Conveniens in Australia’ (2002) 3 Melbourne J of Int’l Law 364 at 374.
[41] Above n36 at para 53.
[42] William Dodge, ‘Breaking the Public Law Taboo’ (2002) 43 Harv Int’l LJ 161 at 185–7; see also Hans Baade, ‘The Operation of Foreign Public Law’ (1995) 30 Texas Int’l LJ 429 at 472– 4; Felix Strebel, ‘The Enforcement of Foreign Judgments and Foreign Public Law’ (1999) 21 Loyola of Los Angeles Int’l and Comparative LJ 55 at 87.
[43] British Airways Board v Laker Airways Ltd [1984] UKHL 7; [1985] 1 AC 58.
[44] See, for example, Industrial Investment Development Corporation v Mitsui and Company [1982] USCA5 382; 671 F 2d 876 (1982); see also the discussion in Dodge, above n42 at 185–6.
[45] Re Trade Practices Commission and Australian Meat Holdings Pty Ltd [1988] FCA 338; (1998) 83 ALR 299 (Wilcox J).
[46] Evans, above n4 at para 84.
[47] Id at para 83 and 87.
[48] Schemmer v Property Resources Ltd [1975] Ch 273.
[49] McIntyre Porcupine Mines Ltd v Hammond (1975) 119 DLR 3d 139, in which the Ontario High Court of Justice, whilst deciding the case on a different ground, suggested that prima facie it would follow Schemmer, ibid.
[50] Nanus, above n29.
[51] Evans, above n4 at para 83 – 89.
[52] Id at para 84.