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Pramoko v Grande Enterprises Ltd (WASCA) - trade practices - contract - misleading and deceptive conduct - reasonable grounds for making representation not established - appeal dismissed
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Pramoko v Grande Enterprises Ltd [2015] WASCA 157
Court of Appeal of Western Australia
Martin CJ, Newnes JA & Beech J
Trade practices - contract - appellant appealed from decision in which he was found to have engaged in misleading and deceptive conduct - appellant challenged trial judge’s conclusion that he failed to establish that he had reasonable grounds for making representation at the time it was made - representation had been found to be implied from provision in a contract executed by parties - Corporations Act 2001 (Cth) - s9 Fair Trading Act 1987 (WA) - Supreme Court Act 1935 (WA) - held: appellant failed to establish reasonable grounds for making representation - appeal dismissed.
Pramoko
[From Benchmark Monday, 17 August 2015]
Song: “Where the bee sucks, there suck I”
By William Shakespeare
(from The Tempest)

Where the bee sucks, there suck I:
In a cowslip’s bell I lie;
There I couch when owls do cry.
On the bat’s back I do fly
After summer merrily.
Merrily, merrily shall I live now
Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.

William Shakespeare