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Searle v Cth (No 2)

[2018] NSWSC 1017

Supreme Court of NSW

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Catchwords

1. Contracts
2. › parties
3. › the Crown
4. › purported training contract between Navy and enlisted serviceman
5. › prerogative of command of armed forces
6. › Commonwealth Constitution, s 68
7. › “command”
8. › whether contract an impermissible fetter upon prerogative of command
9. › contract void
10. › claim for breach dismissed
1. Contracts
2. › formation
3. › consideration
4. › absence of consideration
5. › enlistment in armed forces
6. › purported contract between Navy and enlisted serviceman
7. › where training to be offered and undertaken pursuant to purported “training contract”
8. › whether no effective consideration due to serviceman’s terms of service of enlistment
9. › no effective consideration
1. Estoppel
2. › estoppel by representation
3. › against public authorities
4. › the Commonwealth
5. › whether estoppel can bind Commonwealth to a contract to fetter exercise of prerogative of military command
6. › no estoppel

Case Details

Citation[2018] NSWSC 1017

CourtNSWSC

JurisdictionNew South Wales

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2021Searle v Commonwealth of Australia (No.5)NSWSC 119
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