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dc.contributor.authorBurns, Kylie
dc.contributor.editorProfessor Harold Luntz
dc.date.accessioned2018-10-11T06:50:44Z
dc.date.available2018-10-11T06:50:44Z
dc.date.issued2004
dc.date.modified2007-03-18T21:39:26Z
dc.identifier.issn10385967
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/5482
dc.description.abstractNegligence cases in the High Court by nature present difficult policy choices and take place against the context of judicial recognition of the nature of Australian society, social values and human behaviour. Judges, inevitably, make assumptions and statements in their judgments about society and social values, the nature of the world, and human and institutional behaviour. This article refers to these statements as social facts. The article analyses the nature of the concept ‘social fact’, discusses the rules of evidence relating to the reception of social facts in the Australian High Court and presents a study of the use of social facts in High Court negligence cases in 2003. The study discusses the frequency of the use of social facts, the nature of social fact statements made, the source of social facts, the use of social scientific evidence and the use of social facts in Cattanach v Melchior. Overall the article argues that there is no coherent method in Australian law for determining reliable social facts and that this results in the adoption of conflicting and potentially inaccurate assumptions in the Australian High Court.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherLexis Nexis Butterworths
dc.publisher.placeAustralia
dc.publisher.urihttp://www2.lexisnexis.com.au/sites/en-au/products/torts-law-journal.page
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom215
dc.relation.ispartofpageto238
dc.relation.ispartofedition2004
dc.relation.ispartofjournalTorts Law Journal
dc.relation.ispartofvolume12
dc.subject.fieldofresearchLaw
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode1801
dc.titleThe way the world is: Social facts in High Court Negligence Cases
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
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gro.facultyArts, Education & Law Group, School of Law
gro.rights.copyright© 2004 Lexis Nexis Australia. The attached file is reproduced here in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Please refer to the journal website for access to the definitive, published version.
gro.date.issued2004
gro.hasfulltextFull Text
gro.griffith.authorBurns, Kylie L.


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