Smith Kline & French Laboratories (Australia) Ltd and Others v Secretary, Department of Community Services and Health ; Smith Kline & French Laboratories (Australia) Ltd and Others v Secretary, Department of Community Services and Health and Another

JurisdictionAustralia Federal only
Neutral Citation1991-0417 FCA G
Date1990
CourtFederal Court
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13 cases
  • National Irish Bank Ltd v Raidió Teilifís Éireann
    • Ireland
    • Supreme Court
    • 20 March 1998
    ...2 AER 321 AG V GUARDIAN NEWSPAPERS LTD (NO 2) 1988 3 AER 545 SMITH-CLINE & FRENCH LABORATORIES (AUSTRALIA) V DEPT OF COMMUNITY SERVICES 1990 FSR 617 WOODWARD V HUTCHINS 1977 2 AER 751 FRANCOME V MIRROR GROUP NEWSPAPER 1984 2 AER 408 A COMPANY'S APPLICATION, IN RE 1989 3 WLR 265 X V Y 1998 ......
  • Anthony Dixon v North Bristol NHS Trust
    • United Kingdom
    • King's Bench Division
    • 7 December 2022
    ...has been made of the information”: Smith Kline and French Laboratories v Secretary to the Department of Community Services and Health (1991) 99 ALR 679, 37 Simon Brown LJ reviewed the authorities in R v Department of Health ex parte Source Informatics Ltd [2001] QB 424 [24]–[30] and conclu......
  • London Regional Transport v Mayor of London
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 24 August 2001
    ...J put it at first instance in Smith Kline & French Laboratories (Australia) Ltd v Secretary to the Dept of Community Services and Health, [1990] FSR 617 at 663, it becomes 'not so much a rule of law as an invitation to judicial idiosyncrasy by deciding each case on an ad hoc basis as to whe......
  • McKennitt v Ash
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division
    • 21 December 2005
    ...over the last few years. It is interesting to note, for example, the observation of Gummow J in SK & F v Department of Community Services [1990] FSR 617, 663: "… An examination of the recent English decisions shows that the so-called 'public interest' defence is not so much a rule of law as......
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