British Medical Association v Commonwealth

JurisdictionAustralia Federal only
Neutral Citation1949-1007 HCA A,[1949] HCA 44
Date1949
CourtHigh Court
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60 cases
  • Selim v Lele
    • Australia
    • Federal Court
    • Invalid date
  • Higgins v Commonwealth
    • Australia
    • Federal Court
    • Invalid date
  • Combet v Commonwealth
    • Australia
    • High Court
    • 21 October 2005
    ...authorise the payment of public money for the advertising campaign. The first plaintiff is the Secretary of the ACTU. In British Medical Association v The Commonwealth35, Dixon J doubted that the Federal Council of the British Medical Association in Australia, one of whose objects was to ad......
  • Apla Ltd v Legal Services Commissioner (Nsw)
    • Australia
    • High Court
    • 1 September 2005
    ...71 CLR 545 at 570; Croome v Tasmania (1997) 191 CLR 119 at 127-128, 137–138. 101 cf British Medical Association v The Commonwealth (1949) 79 CLR 201 at 102 An ‘incorporated legal practice’ is defined in s 47C as ‘a corporation that provides legal services’ for fee, gain or reward, other tha......
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7 books & journal articles
  • The 2017 Winterton Lecture. Sir Owen Dixon Today
    • Australia
    • University of Western Australia Law Review No. 43-1, January 2018
    • 1 January 2018
    ...2000-2012, 48, 50-51. 158 ‘Concerning Judicial Method’ in Woinarski (ed), Jesting Pilate (1965) 152, 158. 159 (1949) 79 CLR 201, 259; [1949] HCA 44. 160 (1946) 72 CLR 1, 28; [1946] HCA 16. See, further, Gynch v Polish Club Limited (2015) 255 CLR 414, [71]-[75] per Gageler J; [2015] HCA 23. ......
  • The Functional Constitution: Re-Reading the 2014 High Court Constitutional Term
    • United Kingdom
    • Federal Law Review No. 43-3, September 2015
    • 1 September 2015
    ...CLR 416, 458 [42] (French CJ, Hayne, Kiefel, Bell and Keane JJ). 173 Ibid 476 [110] (French CJ, Hayne, Kiefel, Bell and Keane JJ). 174 (1949) 79 CLR 201 (‘BMA Case’). 175 (1987) 162 CLR 271 (‘Alexandra Hospital Case’). 2015 The Functional Constitution 485 ___________________________________......
  • Rights Review in the High Court and the Cultural Limits of Judicial Power
    • United Kingdom
    • Federal Law Review No. 41-3, September 2013
    • 1 September 2013
    ...1 ('Bank Nationalisation Case'). 42 A-G (Vic); Ex rel Dale v Commonwealth (1945) 71 CLR 237; British Medical Association v Commonwealth (1949) 79 CLR 201. 43 Communist Party Case (1951) 83 CLR 1. 44 Galligan, Politics of the High Court, above n 8, 43. See also: at 203–7. At the same time, t......
  • Trade marks for tobacco products as constitutional property: Australian plain packaging legislation
    • South Africa
    • South Africa Mercantile Law Journal No. , May 2019
    • 25 May 2019
    ...supra note 7 para 42 per French CJ.64Idem paras 41–4 per French CJ.65Idem para 47, quoting British Medical Association v Commonwealth (1949) 79 CLR 201at 270 per Dixon J. Hayne J and Bell J made the same observation (JT International para 167).66JT International supra note 7 para 53 per Gum......
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