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Roxborough v Rothmans of Pall Mall Australia Ltd

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143. demand for recovery is addressed not to a government or government party but to a private corporation the ‘important constitutional value’ of upholding recovery of the unlawful tax from the State is absent... In such a case the fact of ‘passing on’ is certainly relevant. In a given case, it may
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27. ... That, in our view, is the critical question. As between the appellants and the respondent, who has the superior claim? The answer lies in the circumstance that there has been a payment of moneys by the appellants to the respondent for a consideration which has failed, and the respondent has
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Mr Roxborough sought to recover a tobacco licence fee from Rothmans Ltd. That was required to be paid by the Business Franchise Licences (Tobacco) Act 1987 (NSW) and was struck down by the High Court of Australia because it was held to be an excise, which only the Federal Government could charge.
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115. Must part of the windfall to the wholesaler, who is undeserving, be passed to the retailers, equally undeserving, without any provision, sought or offered, to recompense the consumers, who are deserving because they ultimately paid amounts towards the unrecovered licence fees? Or should the
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118. In other words, a windfall accruing to a private person would only be disturbed in favour of another private person if the latter could ‘satisfy the court, by the giving of an undertaking or other means, that it will distribute the moneys to the from whom they were collected, thereby
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This left the wholesaler with a windfall, paid to it that were then going to go onto the State government. It had been found that the retailers had already passed on the fees to their customers.
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The High Court by a majority rejected the defence of passing on. Gleeson CJ, Gaudron J and Hayne J held there was no reason to depart from that view which was expressed in
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windfall remain where it is, on the footing that no basis is shown by statute, by equity or by the common law to sustain the recovery claimed by the retailers?
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recognizing their beneficial ownership of those moneys. Otherwise, why should the law intervene at all?
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case, concerning to what extent enrichment of the defendant must be at the expense of the claimant.
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mean that the taxpayer has, in fact, suffered no loss and is entitled to no legal recovery.
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Commissioner of State Revenue (Vic) v Royal Insurance Australia Ltd
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Commissioner of State Revenue (Vic) v Royal Insurance Australia Ltd
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Kirby J dissented and held that the defence should be allowed.
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Index

Roxborough v Rothmans of Pall Mall Ltd

High Court of Australia
[2001] HCA 68
CLR
ALR
Federal Court
[1999] FCA 1535
FCR
Federal Court (Full Court)
McHugh
Gummow
Kirby
Hayne
Callinan
unjust enrichment law
Commissioner of State Revenue (Vic) v Royal Insurance Australia Ltd
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BP Exploration Co (Libya) Ltd v Hunt (No 2)
Lipkin Gorman v Karpnale Ltd
[1988] UKHL 12
Trustee of FC Jones and Son v Jones
[1996] EWCA 1324
Kleinwort Benson Ltd v Birmingham CC
Roxborough v Rothmans of Pall Mall Ltd
[2001] HCA 68
Kingstreet Invest Ltd v New Brunswick
1 SCR 3

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