Burns v Ransley

JurisdictionAustralia Federal only
Neutral Citation[1949] HCA 45,1949-1007 HCA B
Year1949
Date1949
CourtHigh Court

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    ...Communist Party v CommonwealthINTL[1] (1951) 83 CLR l at 188 and see, to the same effect, per Latham in CJ Burns v RansleyUNK (1949) 79 CLR 101 at 10910). The outer limits of such powers remain unexplored. They have been suggested, in the context of an appropriation of moneys from consolida......
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3 books & journal articles
  • The Legal Personality of the Commonwealth of Australia
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage Federal Law Review No. 47-1, March 2019
    • 1 March 2019
    ...(Gleeson CJ, Gummow and Hayne JJ), quoted in PlainPackaging Case (2012) 250 CLR 1, 72 [186] (Hayne and Bell JJ).68. Burns v Ransley (1949) 79 CLR 101, 115 (Dixon J).69. See Enever v The King (1906) 3 CLR 969, 989 (O’Connor J).70. See John Quick and Robert Randolph Garran, The Annotated Cons......
  • Alexander Meiklejohn, American Constitutional Law, and Australia's Implied Freedom of Political Communication
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage Federal Law Review No. 34-3, September 2006
    • 1 September 2006
    ...and accepted. 142 Jesting Pilate, above n 9, 51. 143 (1950) 83 CLR 1. 144 Ibid 193. 145 (1988) 166 CLR 79. See also Burns v Ransley (1949) 79 CLR 101, 110 (the Commonwealth 'has no power to pass a law to suppress or punish political criticism') (Latham CJ, dictum); at 116–8 (reading facts n......
  • There Must be Limits: The Commonwealth Spending Power
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage Federal Law Review No. 37-1, March 2009
    • 1 March 2009
    ...against subversion and sedition: Australian Communist Party v Commonwealth (1951) 83 CLR 1 ('Communist Party Case'); Burns v Ransley (1949) 79 CLR 101, 109–110, 116; R v Sharkey (1949) 79 CLR 121, 148–9. It was expanded by many of the judges in AAP Case (1975) 134 CLR 338 and adopted in Dav......