dc.contributor.author | Burns, Kylie | |
dc.contributor.editor | Professor Harold Luntz | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-10-11T06:50:44Z | |
dc.date.available | 2018-10-11T06:50:44Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2004 | |
dc.date.modified | 2007-03-18T21:39:26Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 10385967 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10072/5482 | |
dc.description.abstract | Negligence 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.peerreviewed | Yes | |
dc.description.publicationstatus | Yes | |
dc.language | English | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.publisher | Lexis Nexis Butterworths | |
dc.publisher.place | Australia | |
dc.publisher.uri | http://www2.lexisnexis.com.au/sites/en-au/products/torts-law-journal.page | |
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom | 215 | |
dc.relation.ispartofpageto | 238 | |
dc.relation.ispartofedition | 2004 | |
dc.relation.ispartofjournal | Torts Law Journal | |
dc.relation.ispartofvolume | 12 | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearch | Law | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode | 1801 | |
dc.title | The way the world is: Social facts in High Court Negligence Cases | |
dc.type | Journal article | |
dc.type.description | C1 - Articles | |
dc.type.code | C - Journal Articles | |
dc.description.version | Version of Record (VoR) | |
gro.faculty | Arts, 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.issued | 2004 | |
gro.hasfulltext | Full Text | |
gro.griffith.author | Burns, Kylie L. | |