Davis v Commonwealth

JurisdictionAustralia Federal only
Neutral Citation[1988] HCA 63,1988-1206 HCA B
Year1988
Date1988
CourtHigh Court
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52 cases
  • Smith v Western Australia
    • Australia
    • High Court
    • 27 février 2013
    ...played a part in the development of the principles of the law of contempt 90. It played a part in the reasoning of this Court in Davis v The Commonwealth91 in the characterisation, for constitutional purposes, of legislation said to be incidental to a substantive head of power. It was also ......
  • Thomas v Mowbray and Ors
    • Australia
    • High Court
    • 2 août 2007
    ...2nd ed (1910) at 67. 128 (1951) 83 CLR 1 at 259. See also the judgment of Dixon J in Burns v Ransley (1949) 79 CLR 101 at 116. 129 (1988) 166 CLR 79 at 130 Farey v Burvett (1916) 21 CLR 433 . 131 Wertheim v The Commonwealth (1945) 69 CLR 601 . 132 Queensland Newspapers Pty Ltd v McTavish ......
  • Cunliffe v Commonwealth
    • Australia
    • High Court
    • Invalid date
  • Robert James Brown and Another(Plaintiffs) v The State of Tasmania
    • Australia
    • High Court
    • 18 octobre 2017
    ...Proportionality — Australian and European Perspectives”, (2010) 36(2) Monash University Law Review 1 at 12. 229Davis v The Commonwealth (1988) 166 CLR 79 at 99–100 per Mason CJ, Deane and Gaudron JJ (Wilson and Dawson JJ agreeing at 101); [1988] HCA 230Nationwide News Pty Ltd v Wills (1992)......
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38 books & journal articles
  • The Engineers Case Centenary: SCOTUS and the Origins of Australia's Scabrous Constitutional Signature
    • United Kingdom
    • British Journal of American Legal Studies No. 10-1, April 2021
    • 1 avril 2021
    ...steps carried out in the implementation of the G-20 Declaration. or prerogative powers of the Commonwealth. In Davis v The Commonwealth (1988) 166 CLR 79 (Austl.), the HCA found that Commonwealth appropriations celebrating the Australian bicentenary were authorized by the implied nationhood......
  • Alexander Meiklejohn, American Constitutional Law, and Australia's Implied Freedom of Political Communication
    • United Kingdom
    • Federal Law Review No. 34-3, September 2006
    • 1 septembre 2006
    ...certainly had not been generally foreseen 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') (Lat......
  • The Race Power — Its Replacement and Interpretation
    • United Kingdom
    • Federal Law Review No. 40-3, September 2012
    • 1 septembre 2012
    ...Commonwealth (1994 ) 182 CLR 272, 322 (Brennan J); Re Tracey; Ex parte Ryan (1989) 166 CLR 518, 596–7 (Gaudron J); Davis v Commonwealth (1988) 166 CLR 79, 100 (Mason CJ, Deane and Gaudron JJ). 103 Leask v Commonwealth (1996) 187 CLR 579, 606 (Dawson J). 2012 The Race Power — Its Replacement......
  • The Legal Personality of the Commonwealth of Australia
    • United Kingdom
    • Federal Law Review No. 47-1, March 2019
    • 1 mars 2019
    ...257 CLR 178, 224 [106] (Gageler J).62. See Andrew Vincent, Theories of the State (Basil Blackwell, 1987) 26–9.63. Davis v Commonwealth (1988) 166 CLR 79, 110.64. Thomas v Mowbray (2007) 233 CLR 307, 338 [45], 362 [142].65. Ryder v Foley (1906) 4 CLR 422, 433 (Griffith CJ).66. Vincent, above......
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