“Formal separation of the common law of Australia from the common law of England can be dated with precision to the ultimate abolition of all appeals to the Privy Council from all Australian courts on the simultaneous commencement of the Australia Act 1986 (Cth) and the Australia Act 1986 (UK) on 3 March 1986. A little more than nine months later, in Cook v Cook (1986) 162 CLR 376, the High Court of Australia seized the occasion to recant earlier statements of deference to decisions of English courts. English precedents were declared no longer to be presumptively binding on Australian courts …” (more)
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Stephen Gageler, ‘Australian Contract Law in the 21st Century. Edited by John Eldridge and Timothy Pilkington. [Alexandria, NSW: The Federation Press, 2021. xxvi + 325 pp. Hardback $160.00. ISBN 978-1-760-02253-2.]’, Cambridge Law Journal, volume 81, issue 1, March 2022, pp 197-199, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0008197322000137. Published online by Cambridge University Press 30 May.
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