Ex parte Professional Engineers' Association

JurisdictionAustralia Federal only
Neutral Citation[1959] HCA 47,1959-0909 HCA A
Year1959
Date1959
CourtHigh Court
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  • Clarke v Commissioner of Taxation
    • Australia
    • High Court
    • 2 September 2009
    ...which are ordinarily or primarily the subject of private individual enterprise". The distinction was rejected by Windeyer J in the Professional Engineers'Case39. A similar distinction between "governmental functions" and "trading functions" was rejected in the AEUCase40. The rejection of su......
  • Re Patterson; ex parte Taylor
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    • High Court
    • 6 September 2001
    ...May 1987). 65 McGinty v Western Australia (1996) 186 CLR 140 at 230. 66 Re Wakim ; Ex parte McNally (1999) 198 CLR 511 at 551 [40]. 67 (1959) 107 CLR 208 at 68 Jumbunna Coal Mine NL v Victorian Coal Miners' Association (1908) 6 CLR 309 at 368 per O'Connor J. Approved in R v Public Vehicles ......
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  • Federal Limitations on the Legislative Power of the States and the Commonwealth to Bind One Another
    • United Kingdom
    • Federal Law Review No. 31-3, September 2003
    • 1 September 2003
    ...(NSW) (1937) 56 CLR 657, 681. 196 See the extensive criticism of such distinctions in Ex parte Professional Engineers' Association (1959) 107 CLR 208, 235 (Dixon CJ), 275 (Windeyer J); Victoria v Commonwealth (1971) 122 CLR 353, 382–3 (Barwick CJ), 398 (Windeyer J), 424 (Gibbs J); Queenslan......
  • REMOVAL OF JUDGES FROM OFFICE.
    • Australia
    • Melbourne University Law Review Vol. 45 No. 1, August 2021
    • 1 August 2021
    ...6 CLR 469, 611-12 (Higgins J); R v Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission; Ex parte Association of Professional Engineers (1959) 107 CLR 208, 267 (Windeyer J); Street v Queensland Bar Association (1989) 168 CLR 461, 537-8 (Dawson J); Commonwealth v Tasmania (1983) 158 CLR 1, 3......
  • 2018 Winterton Lecture: Constitutional interpretation
    • Australia
    • University of Western Australia Law Review No. 45-1, June 2019
    • 1 June 2019
    ...HCA 17 (construing s.101 of the Commonwealth Constitution). 20 Ex parte Professional Engineers' Association (1959) 107 CLR 208 at 267; [1959] HCA 47; Damjanovic & Sons Pty Ltd v The Commonwealth (1968) 117 CLR 390 at 406-407; [1969] HCA 42. See also Dennis Hotels Pty Ltd v Victoria (1960) 1......
  • Justice Windeyer on the Engineers' Case
    • United Kingdom
    • Federal Law Review No. 37-3, September 2009
    • 1 September 2009
    ...(NSW) (1907) 4 CLR 1087. 18 R v Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission; Ex parte Association of Professional Engineers (1959) 107 CLR 208, 267; see also Bonser v La Macchia (1969) 122 CLR 177, 230. 19 One referee asked how this proposition is consistent with s 59 of the Consti......
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