Dear Obligations Discussion Group colleagues,
I hope you are all doing well in these uncertain times. List members may be interested in a post my colleague Professor Jason Varuhas has written for our Opinions on High blog on the High Court of Australia’s recent decision in Commissioner of Police v
Smethurst [2020] HCA 14:
It discusses the private law and equitable origins of the injunction, the nature of the potentially tortious conduct in that case, the overlap with public law wrongdoing, and the question of whether injunctions for public law wrongs should be treated differently
to ‘ordinary’ injunctions.
Katy Barnett