Campbell v Gordon
Decision date: 6 July 2016
Neutral citation: Neutral citation not available
Court: Court not available
Insurance classification confidence: high
Overall AI summary confidence: medium
Short overview
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The case concerns whether the Employers' Liability (Compulsory Insurance) Act 1969 and related provisions impose a private civil right of action where an employer (or specified officers of a corporate employer) fails to insure employees. The court (majority) held that the statutory duty to insure is a specific obligation intended to protect a definable class (employees) and allowed the appeal, permitting the case to proceed to proof. Dissenting judges disagreed.
Ratio decidendi
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AI confidence in this ratio summary: medium
Where a statute imposes a specific duty to insure for the protection of a particular class (employees), that duty gives rise to a correlative private civil remedy enforceable by those employees; accordingly the failure to insure can found a claim and the matter should proceed to proof.
Obiter dicta
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AI confidence in this obiter summary: low
No clear obiter dicta can safely be identified from the judgment.
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