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R v Boyes
[2022] NSWDC 384
…"However, the provisions of the statute have to be interpreted against the background provided by the common law. It has been a firmly established rule of the common law, since the seventeenth century, that no person can be compelled to incriminate himself. A person may refuse to answer any question…
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R v Scott
[2017] SASCFC 96
…"However, the provisions of the statute have to be interpreted against the background provided by the common law. It has been a firmly established rule of the common law, since the seventeenth century, that no person can be compelled to incriminate himself. A person may refuse to answer any question…
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Re Steele, P.J. R. v Ex parte The Official Trustee of Bankruptcy and Anor
[1994] FCA 25
…able. I turn to the question of the availability of legal professional privilege. In Re Steele; ex parte Official Trustee in Bankruptcy v Clayton Utz (1994) 48 FCR 236, Ryan J held that s.77AA was not to be read as denying the common law right to claim legal professional privilege. Counsel for the Trustee did not di…
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Johns v Australian Securities Commission
[1993] HCA 56
…oner of Police (1992) Ch. 225; see also Morris v The Director of the Serious Fraud Office (1993) Ch. 372 and Johns v Australian Securities Commission (1993) 178 CLR 408 (at 423-4 and 429). The issues for determination in the Victorian matter do not in my opinion arise for determination here. The question in the prese…
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Attorney-General (NT) v Kearney
[1985] HCA 60
…m disclosure. See also: The Queen v Bell; ex parte Lees (1980) 146 CLR 141 and The Attorney General for the Northern Territory of Australia v Kearney (1985) 158 CLR 500.…
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Sorby v the Commonwealth
[1983] HCA 10
…Sorby v The Commonwealth (1983) 152 CLR 281 Pyneboard Pty Ltd v Trade Practices Commission (1983) 152 CLR 328. Re Clyne; ex parte Deputy Commissioner of Taxation (1986) 15 FCR 128. The Queen v Cox and Railton (1884) 14 QBD 153.…
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R v Bell; ex parte Lees
[1980] HCA 26
…crime for the purpose of being guided or helped in the commission of it are not privileged from disclosure. See also: The Queen v Bell; ex parte Lees (1980) 146 CLR 141 and The Attorney General for the Northern Territory of Australia v Kearney (1985) 158 CLR 500.…
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Mitcham v O'Toole
[1977] HCA 41
…serve the privilege: see, e.g. Mortimer v. Brown (1970) 122 CLR 493 and Rees v. Kratzmann (1965) 114 CLR 63, esp. At p 80, but cf. Mitcham v. O'Toole (1977) 137 CLR 150. However, a statute will not be construed as excluding so valuable a privilege unless an intention to do so clearly appears; see R. v. Associated Nor…
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Mortimer v Brown
[1970] HCA 4
…y. The character and purpose of the statute may indicate that it should not be construed so as to preserve the privilege: see, e.g. Mortimer v. Brown (1970) 122 CLR 493 and Rees v. Kratzmann (1965) 114 CLR 63, esp. At p 80, but cf. Mitcham v. O'Toole (1977) 137 CLR 150. However, a statute will not be construed as exc…
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Rees v Kratzmann
[1965] HCA 49
…te may indicate that it should not be construed so as to preserve the privilege: see, e.g. Mortimer v. Brown (1970) 122 CLR 493 and Rees v. Kratzmann (1965) 114 CLR 63, esp. At p 80, but cf. Mitcham v. O'Toole (1977) 137 CLR 150. However, a statute will not be construed as excluding so valuable a privilege unless an…
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R v Associated Northern Collieries
[1910] HCA 61
…ute will not be construed as excluding so valuable a privilege unless an intention to do so clearly appears; see R. v. Associated Northern Collieries (1910) 11 CLR 738, at p 748, and Ex parte Grinham; Re Sneddon (1961) SR (N.S.W.) 862, at pp 870-871, 874-875."…
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Pyneboard Pty Ltd v Trade Practices Commission
[1983] HCA 9
…Sorby v The Commonwealth (1983) 152 CLR 281 Pyneboard Pty Ltd v Trade Practices Commission (1983) 152 CLR 328. Re Clyne; ex parte Deputy Commissioner of Taxation (1986) 15 FCR 128. The Queen v Cox and Railton (1884) 14 QBD 153.…
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(1884) 14 QBD 153
(1884) 14 QBD 153
…td v Trade Practices Commission (1983) 152 CLR 328. Re Clyne; ex parte Deputy Commissioner of Taxation (1986) 15 FCR 128. The Queen v Cox and Railton (1884) 14 QBD 153.…
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(1978) AC 547
(1978) AC 547
…(1882) 20 ChD 294; Triplex Safety Glass Co. v. Lancegaye Safety Glass (1934) Ltd (1939) 2 KB 395, at pp 403-404; In re Westinghouse Uranium Contract (1978) AC 547, at pp 612, 627, 647. It is clear that in England the Parliament may take away the privilege and enact that a party may be bound to accuse himself: R…
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(1882) 20 ChD 294
(1882) 20 ChD 294
…1) 1 B and S 311, at pp 329-330 (121 ER 730, at p 738). That statement of the law has frequently been approved; see Ex parte Reynolds; In re Reynolds (1882) 20 ChD 294; Triplex Safety Glass Co. v. Lancegaye Safety Glass (1934) Ltd (1939) 2 KB 395, at pp 403-404; In re Westinghouse Uranium Contract (1978) AC 547, at…
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(1939) 2 KB 395
(1939) 2 KB 395
…has frequently been approved; see Ex parte Reynolds; In re Reynolds (1882) 20 ChD 294; Triplex Safety Glass Co. v. Lancegaye Safety Glass (1934) Ltd (1939) 2 KB 395, at pp 403-404; In re Westinghouse Uranium Contract (1978) AC 547, at pp 612, 627, 647. It is clear that in England the Parliament may take away the…
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(1912) 2 KB 251
(1912) 2 KB 251
…His Honour then referred to what had been said by Phillimore J (as he then was) in Re Atherton (1912) 2 KB 251. Phillimore J said (at 254):…
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Lamb v Munster
10 QBD 110
…"However, the provisions of the statute have to be interpreted against the background provided by the common law. It has been a firmly established rule of the common law, since the seventeenth century, that no person can be compelled to incriminate himself. A person may refuse to answer any question…
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Marcel v Commissioner of Police
(1991) 2 WLR 1129
…In those proceedings the Trustee will rely on the decision of the English Court of Appeal in Marcel v Commissioner of Police (1992) Ch. 225; see also Morris v The Director of the Serious Fraud Office (1993) Ch. 372 and Johns v Australian Securities Commission (1993) 178 CLR 408 (at 423-4 and 429). The issues for determination in the Vic…
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(1890) 25 QBD 17
(1890) 25 QBD 17
…. Those words are in themselves wide enough for the purpose of the matter now before me, but I have also the authority of the cases of Re a Solicitor (1890) 25 QBD 17, R v Erdheim (1896) 2 QB 260, and R v Scott (1856) 25 LJ MC 128, which decide that those words mean what they say, that a debtor is bound to answer a…
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(1896) 2 QB 260
(1896) 2 QB 260
…s wide enough for the purpose of the matter now before me, but I have also the authority of the cases of Re a Solicitor (1890) 25 QBD 17, R v Erdheim (1896) 2 QB 260, and R v Scott (1856) 25 LJ MC 128, which decide that those words mean what they say, that a debtor is bound to answer all such questions as the Cour…
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(1970) 1 WLR 1252
(1970) 1 WLR 1252
…ial Receiver (supra, at 88-89) and it has been treated as correct on many occasions both in England (see for example Re Jawett (supra) and R v Harris (1970) 1 WLR 1252) and in Australia (see for example Re Wagner (1958) QWN 49, Rees v Kratzmann (1965) 114 CLR 63, Mortimer v Brown (supra) and Re Clyne; Ex parte O'Bri…