Reynolds & Anor v Aluma-Lite Products Pty Ltd

• 1. Tort
  2. › Detinue
  3. › Damages
  4. › Consequential losses
  5. › Loss of profits from hiring out detained goods
  6. › Whether plaintiff must prove goods normally hired out for profit
  7. › Whether plaintiff must prove capacity to engage in business
• 1. Appeal
  2. › Interference with findings of fact
  3. › Credibility findings
  4. › Delay in delivery of judgment
  5. › Whether delay weakens advantage of seeing witnesses
  6. › Whether more intense scrutiny required
• 1. Appeal
  2. › New arguments on appeal
  3. › Whether argument not raised at trial may be raised on appeal
  4. › Whether failure to cross-examine on point precludes raising it on appeal
• 1. Money
  2. › Payment
  3. › Appropriation of payments
  4. › Mortgage providing for application to interest before principal
  5. › Whether pleading constitutes irrevocable appropriation to principal
  6. › Falk v Haugh presumption

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