Australia Leading Case uncategorized

R v Hickman; Ex parte Fox and Clinton

[1945] HCA 53; (1945) 70 CLR 598

JurisdictionAustralia

CourtHigh Court of Australia

Year1945

StatusBinding authority

Key Principle

A privative (ouster) clause is reconciled with the conferral of limited jurisdiction by reading it as protecting decisions that are a bona fide attempt to exercise the power, relate to the subject matter of the legislation, and are reasonably capable of reference to the power conferred.

Area of Law

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