James v Commonwealth
| Jurisdiction | Australia Federal only |
| Neutral Citation | [1939] HCA 9,1939-0416 HCA A |
| Date | 1939 |
| Year | 1939 |
| Court | High Court |
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31 cases
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Bourgoin S.A. v Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
...we have been referred, by way of analogy, to the decision of Mr. Justice Dixon (as he then was) in James v. The Commonwealth, 62 Commonwealth Law Reports 339, in which he held that the private citizen had no claim for damages for a legislative act that had been found ultimately to be a brea......
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- Kruger v Commonwealth; Bray v Commonwealth
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1 firm's commentaries
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Insurance: What it means to be a 'common carrier'
...on the common carrier, which traverse public service and commerce. Applying the decision of the High Court in James v Commonwealth (1939) 62 CLR 339, the Court of Appeal held The holding out or profession of the character of common carrier may be expressed or implied by a course of business......
10 books & journal articles
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The Australian Constitution's Influence on the Common Law
...necessary to_____________________________________________________________________________________81 Ibid. See also James v Commonwealth (1939) 62 CLR 339, 362 (Dixon J); Brown v The Queen(1986) 160 CLR 171, 208 (Dawson J); Kruger v Commonwealth (1997) 190 CLR 1, 46 (BrennanCJ), 61 (Dawson J......
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The Engineers Case Centenary: SCOTUS and the Origins of Australia's Scabrous Constitutional Signature
...Id. at 299. 141 Id . 142 Id. 143 Id. at 314. 144 Id. at 317. 145 Id. at 330. 146 Id. at 349. 147 Id. at 351. 148 James v Commonwealth (1939) 62 CLR 339, 361-62 (Austl.). 48 The Engineers Case Centenary: SCOTUS and the Origins of Australia’s Scabrous Constitutional Signature governmental int......
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Alexander Meiklejohn, American Constitutional Law, and Australia's Implied Freedom of Political Communication
...for Constitutional Violations: The Relation of Risk to Injury in Constitutional Torts' (1989) 75 Virginia Law Review 1461, 1466–70. 99 (1939) 62 CLR 339 ('James'). 100 Australian Constitution s 92 (freedom of interstate trade). 438 Federal Law Review Volume 34 ______________________________......
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Of Kings and Officers — The Judicial Development of Public Law
...970. 300 See Robert FV Heuston and RA Buckley, Salmond and Heuston on the Law of Torts (20th ed, 1992) 379; James v Commonwealth (1939) 62 CLR 339, 374; Rookes v Barnard [1964] AC 1129, 1205. The existence or otherwise of such a tort was left open in Northern Territory v Mengel (1995) 185 C......
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