Melbourne Corporation v Commonwealth

JurisdictionAustralia Federal only
Neutral Citation1947-0813 HCA A,[1947] HCA 26
Date1947
CourtHigh Court
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2 firm's commentaries
  • Queensland Government Bulletin: Recent media releases, reports, cases and legislation
    • Australia
    • Mondaq Australia
    • 30 May 2019
    ...– Doctrine of inter-governmental immunities – Whether implication expounded in Melbourne Corporation v The Commonwealth (1947) 74 CLR 31; [1947] HCA 26 operates reciprocally to protect States and Commonwealth from impermissible interference by law of one polity with operations of government......
  • NSW Government Bulletin: Recent media releases, reports, cases and legislation
    • Australia
    • Mondaq Australia
    • 30 May 2019
    ...- Doctrine of inter-governmental immunities - Whether implication expounded in Melbourne Corporation v The Commonwealth (1947) 74 CLR 31; [1947] HCA 26 operates reciprocally to protect States and Commonwealth from impermissible interference by law of one polity with operations of government......
48 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
    ...Press, 2016) 65. 140 (1944) 69 CLR 457, 471; [1944] HCA 36. 141 WorkChoices Case (2006) 229 CLR 1; [2006] HCA 52. 142 (1947) 74 CLR 31; [1947] HCA 26. 143 Australian National Airways Pty Ltd v The Commonwealth (1945) 71 CLR 29, 85; [1945] HCA 41. The “doctrine” associated with the Melbourne......
  • The Legal Personality of the Commonwealth of Australia
    • United Kingdom
    • Federal Law Review No. 47-1, March 2019
    • 1 March 2019
    ...(French CJ), 237 [154] (Gummow and Bell JJ), 253–4 [204]–[205] (Hayne J) (‘Williams (No 1)’).3. Melbourne Corporation v The Commonwealth (1947) 74 CLR 31, 83 (Dixon J).4. Frederic W Maitland, The Constitutional History of England (Cambridge University Press, 1908) 418.5. Communications, Ele......
  • Attributes and Attribution of State Courts — Federalism and the Kable Principle
    • United Kingdom
    • Federal Law Review No. 40-1, March 2012
    • 1 March 2012
    ..._____________________________________________________________________________________ 17 See, eg, Melbourne Corporation v Commonwealth (1947) 74 CLR 31 ('Melbourne Corporation'); Austin v Commonwealth (2003) 215 CLR 185 ('Austin'); Clarke v Federal Commissioner of Taxation (2009) 240 CLR 27......
  • The Centralisation of Judicial Power within the Australian Federal System
    • United Kingdom
    • Federal Law Review No. 42-2, June 2014
    • 1 June 2014
    ...75. 123 See, eg, Russell v Russell (1976) 134 CLR 495. 124 See, eg, Le Mesurier v Connor (1929) 42 CLR 481. 125 (1920) 28 CLR 129. 126 (1947) 74 CLR 31. 2014 The Centralisation of Judicial Power 379 _____________________________________________________________________________________ Isaacs......
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