PGA v The Queen

JurisdictionAustralia Federal only
JudgeFrench CJ,Gummow,Hayne,Crennan,Kiefel JJ.,Heydon J.,Bell J.
Judgment Date30 May 2012
Neutral Citation[2012] HCA 21,2012-0530 HCA A
CourtHigh Court
Docket NumberA15/2011
Date30 May 2012
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15 cases
  • Glencore International AG v Commissioner of Taxation
    • Australia
    • High Court
    • 14 Agosto 2019
    ...Brennan J, 459-460 per Gaudron J. 75 PGA v The Queen (2012) 245 CLR 355 at 373 [29] per French CJ, Gummow, Hayne, Crennan and Kiefel JJ; [2012] HCA 21, referring to Dixon, “Concerning Judicial Method” (1956) 29 Australian Law Journal 468 at 76 Breen v Williams (1996) 186 CLR 71 at 99 per Da......
  • Mann v Paterson Constructions Pty Ltd
    • Australia
    • High Court
    • 9 Octubre 2019
    ...was cited by Dixon J in McDonald v Dennys Lascelles Ltd (1933) 48 CLR 457 at 477. 76 PGA v The Queen (2012) 245 CLR 355 at 373 [30]; [2012] HCA 21. See also Lissenden v C A V Bosch Ltd [1940] AC 412 at 77 West Ham Union v Edmonton Union [1908] AC 1 at 5, adopted in Oceanic Crest Shipping Co......
  • Bell Lawyers Pty Ltd v Pentelow
    • Australia
    • High Court
    • 4 Septiembre 2019
    ...HCA 73. 77 (1976) 136 CLR 47; [1976] HCA 57. 78 (1994) 179 CLR 403 at 411–412. 79 See PGA v The Queen (2012) 245 CLR 355 at 370 [22]; [2012] HCA 21, quoting Simpson, “common law”, in Cane and Conaghan (eds), The New Oxford Companion to Law (2008) 164 at 80 Lange v Australian Broadcasting Co......
  • Apotex Pty Ltd v Sanofi-Aventis Australia Pty Ltd
    • Australia
    • High Court
    • 4 Diciembre 2013
    ...Explanatory Memorandum at [31]. 47 Cane and Conaghan (eds), The New Oxford Companion to Law, (2008) at 164-166. 48 (2012) 245 CLR 355; [2012] HCA 21. 49 (2012) 245 CLR 355 at 370 50 (2012) 245 CLR 355 at 371 [23], citing Western Australia v The Commonwealth (Native Title Act Case) (1995) 18......
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5 books & journal articles
  • The 2017 Winterton Lecture. Sir Owen Dixon Today
    • Australia
    • University of Western Australia Law Review No. 43-1, January 2018
    • 1 Enero 2018
    ...38. 164 ‘Concerning Judicial Method’ in Woinarski (ed), Jesting Pilate (1965) 152; 29 Australian Law Journal 468. 165 (2012) 245 CLR 355; [2012] HCA 21. 166 (1988) 165 CLR 360. But what of that other important provision in the Constitution for the economy, s 90? The critical statement by Di......
  • The legal and commercial frameworks
    • United Kingdom
    • Construction Law. Volume I - Third Edition
    • 13 Abril 2020
    ...will not stand in the way of necessary adaptation or 65 Although “the common law” can be used in a number of senses: see PGA v he Queen [2012] HCA 21 at [19]–[28]. 66 he hierarchy of courts is discussed later in this chapter. 67 However, a judge of irst instance is technically not bound to ......
  • The Doctrine of Incapability and the Emperor's New Clothes: A Protected Defendant or Non-Existent Offences?
    • United Kingdom
    • Journal of Criminal Law, The No. 78-3, June 2014
    • 1 Junio 2014
    ...between the behaviour and conviction, and one that (in obiter) explicitly recognises how law can be formed upon a fiction, see PGA v R [2012] HCA 21. 13 Consider the commentary by David Ormerod in Smith & Hogan’s Criminal Law, 13th edn (Oxford University Press: Oxford, 2011) 14 D. L. McBrid......
  • The Law of the Land
    • United Kingdom
    • The Modern Law Review No. 78-1, January 2015
    • 1 Enero 2015
    ...C. Davis, 1736) I, 628–629; RvClarence (1888) 22 QBD 23; D. Lanham,‘Hale, Misogyny and Rape’ (1983) 7 Crim L J 148, 155; PGA vThe Queen [2012] HCA 21,Heydon J at [80]–[84] and Bell J at [199]–[215]. The exemption as it existed until 1991 seems bestunderstood, applying Dworkin’s terms, as an......
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