# New Zealand Law/Tort

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## Accident Compensation
### Statutes
#### Injury Prevention Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2001

* Injury Prevention Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2001

#### Accident Insurance Amendment Act 2000
### Cases
#### Walbutton v ACC

* Held
    An accident is an event that is not intended by the person who suffers the misfortune.

#### ACC v Mitchell

* Held
    There is no need to show that an accident is caused by some external force. (Reversed by s3(a) 1992 Act)

#### ACC v F

* Facts
    Husband sued for depression brought on by wife's injury.
* Held
    While the husband's depression was an unlooked for mishap, the husband’s injury was not the relevant accident and mental injury must accompany physical injury.

#### ACC v E

Facts: E was required by her workplace to undergo a management course by her employer and subsequently suffered suffered mental breakdown.
Held: E was initially turned down for cover under the ACC scheme because it was thought that the scheme only covered mental injury which was accompanied by a physical injury. Court of Appeal overturned the decision, deciding "physical and mental" was to be interpreted generously, to be applied as "physical or mental." This indicates the courts desire to interpret ACC legislation with wide breadth.

#### Brownlie v Good Health Wanganui (2005) CA

* Held
    Non-treatment is as much medical misadventure as negligent treatment
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#### A v Bottril [2003] 2 NZLR 721 (PC)

    see A v Bottril

#### McDermott v Wallace
### Articles

* Margaret McGregor Vennell "Accident Compensation" [1992] NZ Recent LR 1
* Manning [1992] NZ Recent LR 10
* Geoff McLay "Nervous Shock, Tort and Accident Compensation: Tort regained?" (1999) 30 VUWLR 197
* Manning "Daniels v Thompson: Double Punishment or Double Trouble?" [1998] New Zealand L Rev 721
* Richard Gaskins "Recalling the Future of ACC" [2000] VUWLR 17
* Stephen Todd "Exemplary Damages" (1998) 18 NZULR 145
* Ailsa Duffy "Common Law Response to the Accident Compensation Scheme" [2003] VUWLR 21

## Negligence
### Cases
#### Duty of Care

* Anns v Merton LBC
* South Pacific v NZ Security
* Spring v Guardian Assocs
* Midland Metals v ChCh Press
* Rolls Royce v CHH

#### Auditors - Negligent Misstatement

* Scott Group v McFarlane
* Caparo v Dickman
* Boyd Knight v Purdue

#### Auditors - Other

* Price Waterhouse v Kwan
* Deloitte Haskins & Sells v National Mutual Life
* Wellington District Law Soc v PW

#### Council liability

* Anns v Merton LBC
* Bowen v Paramount Builders
* Brown v Heathcote CC
* Murphy v Brentwood DC
* Invercargill CC v Hamlin
* Three Meade St v Rotorua DC

#### Cases v Govt #1

* X v Bedforshire CC (1995)
* AG v Prince (1998)
* Barrett v Enfield LBC (1999)
* W v Essex CC (2000)
* B v Attorney-General (2004) 3 NZLR 145 (PC)

#### Cases v Govt #2

* A-G v Carter (2003)
* A-G v Body Corporate (2005)
* Tai Hobson v A-G (2006)

#### Nervous Shock

* Alcock v Chief Constable of South Yorkshire
* Van Soest v Residentical Health Mgt Unit
* W v Essex CC

#### Tort v Contractual Remedies

* Henderson v Merrett Syndicates
* Turton v Kuslake
* Rolls Royce NZ v CH

#### Limitation Period

* Invercargill CC v Hamlin

## Nuisance
### Private Nuisance
##### Hunter v Canary Wharf [1997] AC 655

    Hunter v Canary Wharf

### Rylands v Fletcher Nuisance
##### Rylands v Fletcher [1866] LR 1 Ex 265

* see Rylands v Fletcher

##### Rickards v Lothian [1913] AC 263

* Facts
    An unknown person intentionally blocked a drain on the defendant's property causing water to overflow and damage the plaintiff's stock.
* Held:
1. An exception to Rylands & Fletcher liability - a person is not responsible for the acts of third parties.
    2. Water supply and conveniences are not non-natural uses.

##### Hamilton v Papakura District Council [2000] 1 NZLR 265

    see Hamilton v Papakura District Council

##### Transco PLC v Stockport MBC [2004] 2 AC 1

    see Transco PLC v Stockport MBC

## Defamation
### Statutes

* Defamation Act 1992

### Cases

* Charleston v News Group Newspapers Ltd [1995] 2 AC 65
* Mount Cook Group Ltd v Johnstone Motors [1990] 2 NZLR 488
* Templeton v Jones [1984] 1 NZLR 448
* Prebble v TVNZ [1994] 3 NZLR 1
* Jennings v Buchanan [2005] 2 NZLR 577
* Lange v Atkinson [1998] 3 NZLR 424 (CA)
* Reynolds v Times Newspapers [1999] 4 All ER 609 (HL)
* Lange v Atkinson [2000] 1 NZLR 257 (PC)
* Lange v Atkinson [2000] 3 NZLR 385 (CA)
* Vickery v McLean (2000) unreported, Court of Appeal, CA 125/00

## Privacy

* Hosking v Runting [2005] 1 NZLR 1
* TVNZ v Haines (2005), CA 71/04

## Vicarious Liability

* S v Attorney-General [2003] 3 NZLR 450 (CA)
* W v Attorney-General (2003) unreported, CA 227/02