Adelaide Company of Jehovah's Witnesses Inc. v Commonwealth
| Jurisdiction | Australia Federal only |
| Neutral Citation | 1943-0614 HCA A,[1943] HCA 12 |
| Date | 1943 |
| Court | High Court |
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38 cases
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Liong Kok Keng v Public Prosecutor
...High Court of Australia has also endorsed this position in the case of Adelaide Company of Jehovah`s Witnesses Inc v The Commonwealth (1943) 67 CLR 116 in which the provision as to religion in the Australian Constitution was in issue. To quote the words of Latham CJ at p 131: ... liberty di......
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Vasiljkovic v Commonwealth of Australia
...of Serious Crimes Under International Law, (2004) 240 at 243. 193 See eg Adelaide Company of Jehovah's Witnesses Inc v The Commonwealth (1943) 67 CLR 116 at 124; Australian Communist PartyCase (1951) 83 CLR 194 Butt and Hansell, ‘The Masykur Abdul Kadir Case: Indonesian Constitutional Court......
- Kruger v Commonwealth; Bray v Commonwealth
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R v Tang
...See [1958] ATS 3; 266 UNTS 3. 44 Compare Tang at para. 157. 45 Compare Adelaide Company of Jehovah's Witnesses Inc. v. CommonwealthUNK(1943) 67 CLR 116 at 124; [1943] ALR 193 at 197; [1943] HCA 12 per Latham 46 Reasons of Gleeson CJ at paras. 6–18. 47Tang at para. 191. 48 See ss 2.1, 3.1, 3......
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1 firm's commentaries
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Religious Discrimination Bill ' Hard cases make bad law
...or have existed, in the world". (See Adelaide Company of Jehovah's Witnesses Incorporated v Commonwealth ("Jehovah's Witness case") [1943] HCA 12; (1943) 67 CLR These sentiments were echoed in the 1983 case about Scientology, in which the High Court found that, despite differing profoundly ......
19 books & journal articles
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WALKING THE TIGHTROPE BETWEEN LEGALITY AND LEGITIMACY
...4 SLR 1; Ong Ah Chuan v Public Prosecutor[1979–1980] SLR(R) 710. 18Eg, Adelaide Co of Jehovah's Witnesses Inc v Commonwealth(1943) 67 CLR 116; Cole v Whitfield(1988) 165 CLR 360; Street v Queensland Bar Association(1989) 168 CLR 461; Nationwide News Pty Ltd v Wills(1992) 177 CLR 1; Lange v ......
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The Constitutional (In)Validity of Religious Vilification Laws: Implications for their Interpretation
...defence meant that it was not necessary to consider whether the question should be referred to the Court of Appeal. 68 See ibid 306. 69 (1943) 67 CLR 116, 122–3 ('Jehovah's Witnesses Case'). 70 Harkianakis (1999) 47 NSWLR 302, 307. 2006 Religious Vilification Laws 299 ______________________......
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Judicial Review of Legislators’ Motives
...view of Gaudron and Toohey JJ must be preferred for the reasons given by: Adelaide Company of Jehovah’s Witnesses Inc v Commonwealth (1943) 67 CLR 116, 123 (Latham CJ); Luke Beck, ‘Higgins’ Argument for Section 116 of the Constitution’ (2013) 41 Federal Law Review 393. 31 DOGS Case (1981) 1......
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Involuntary Detention and the Separation of Judicial Power
...the cases cited in n 93, above. 98 Kruger (1997) 190 CLR 1, 132. 99 Adelaide Company of Jehovah's Witnesses Inc v Commonwealth (1943) 67 CLR 116, 132 (Latham CJ); A-G (Vic); Ex rel Black v Commonwealth (1981) 146 CLR 559, 579 (Barwick CJ), 615–16 (Mason J), 653 (Wilson J); Kruger (1997) 190......
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