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Taylor, Greg (2000), "Commonwealth v Western Australia and the Operation in Federal Systems of the Presumption that Statutes do not Apply to the Crown", Melbourne University Law Review, 24, Melbourne: Melbourne University Law Review Association: 77–123, ISSN 0025-8938
Rindos v. Hardwick was a case of Internet defamation heard in 1994 in which Western Australian lawyers representing a visiting American academic sought to create a legal precedent by deeming an email sent by Gil Hardwick to have alleged paedophilia against David Rindos, a probationary lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Western Australia.
Roffey v The State of Western Australia is a Court of Appeal decision of the Supreme Court of Western Australia in the field of criminal law.. The case is frequently cited in Western Australia for its elaboration of the 'totality principle', [1] a legal doctrine often invoked where an appellant wishes to reduce the total imposed sentence for multiple charges, on the appeal ground that the ...
McGinty v Western Australia was a significant case decided in the High Court of Australia in 1996. The plaintiffs sought to enshrine the principle of ‘one vote, one value’ in the Australian Constitution, and has had a significant impact on how the High Court approaches matters of the franchise, as well as malapportionment.
Palmer v Western Australia was a case heard by the High Court of Australia during the COVID-19 pandemic, which held that the Quarantine (Closing the Border) Directions and the authorising legislation, the Emergency Management Act 2005, were not impermissibly infringing section 92 of the Constitution of Australia.
Law reports covering the decisions of Australian Courts are collections of decisions by particulars courts, subjects or jurisdictions. A widely used guide to case citation in Australia is the Australian Guide to Legal Citation , published jointly by the Melbourne University Law Review and the Melbourne Journal of International Law .
Wardley Australia Ltd v Western Australia: 1992 175 CLR 514; [1992] HCA 55 Mason: 1461 67. Queensland v J L Holdings Pty Ltd: 1997 189 CLR 146; [1997] HCA 1 Brennan: 1448 68. Re Minister for Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs; Ex parte Lam: 2003 214 CLR 1; [2003] HCA 6 Gleeson: 1442 Refugee/Migration: 69. Dietrich v R: 1992
Western Australia v Commonwealth, [1] also known as the First Territory Senators' Case, was an important decision of the High Court of Australia concerning the procedure in section 57 of the Constitution and the representation of territories in the Senate.