Roo Roofing Pty Ltd v Commonwealth

COURT OR TRIBUNAL

Supreme Court of Victoria

DATE FILED (OR FIRST HEARING DATE)

30/06/2015

LITIGATION TYPE

Constitutional and Human Rights / State Accountability

SUBJECT MATTER

Renewable energy

REVIEW TYPE

N/A

SUMMARY

NEGLIGENCE — Duty of care — Novel duty —Whether Commonwealth Government owed duty to businesses in a section of the economy to avoid economic harm to them when designing, implementing or administering government economic policy — Exercise by Commonwealth Government of executive power in the interests of good governance of Australia — Pure economic loss — Impact on core governmental functions — Supervening policy considerations — Conflicting duties — Consideration of salient factors — Foreseeability, vulnerability, knowledge — No duty owed.

CASE DOCUMENTS

Roo Roofing Pty Ltd v Commonwealth [2019] VSC 331