Commercial Cable Company v Newfoundland Government
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Judgment Date | 1916 |
| Year | 1916 |
| Date | 1916 |
| Court | Privy Council |
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23 cases
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Attorney General Appellant v Martinus Francois Respondent [ECSC]
...of this submission Learned Counsel relied on the following authorities among others. Churchward v The Queen 8 Commercial Cable Co. v Government of Newfoundland 9 Mackey v Attorney General for British Columbia 10 Auckland Harbour Board v The Leing 11 Attorney General v Great Southern ......
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Williams v Commonwealth of Australia
...Viscount Haldane, in the course of argument in the Privy Council, referred to the decision of the Privy Council in Commercial Cable Co v Newfoundland Government 181 and said 182: ‘In that case we distinctly laid it down … that the Governor-General, as representing the Crown, could enter int......
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Constitutional Amendment References 1981 (Manitoba, Newfoundland and Quebec), (1981) 34 Nfld. & P.E.I.R. 1 (SCC)
...Attorney General v. Jonathan Cape Ltd., [1976] 1 Q.B. 752, refd to. [para. 45]. Commercial Cable Co. v. Government of Newfoundland, [1916] 2 A.C. 610, dist. [para. Alexander E. Hull & Co. v. McKenna, [1926] 1 R. 402, dist. [para. 46]. Copyright Owners v. E.M.I. (Australia) Pty. Ltd. (19......
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1 books & journal articles
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GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS AND PUBLIC LAW.
...Ibid 214. (80) Ibid 216-17. (81) Ibid 219-25. (82) PJ Magennis (n 74) 410 (citations omitted). In Commercial Cable Co v Newfoundland [1916] 2 AC 610, the Privy Council held that the Newfoundland Governor-in-Council had no power to make the relevant contract because the letters patent appoin......