Re Racal Communications Ltd

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
JudgeLord Diplock,Lord Salmon,Lord Edmund Davies,Lord Keith of Kinkel,Lord Scarman
Judgment Date03 July 1980
Judgment citation (vLex)[1980] UKHL J0703-2
Date03 July 1980
CourtHouse of Lords
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    • United Kingdom
    • Sage Federal Law Review No. 29-3, September 2001
    • 1 September 2001
    ...163, 178 (Brennan, Deane, Toohey, Gaudron and McHugh JJ).126 Ibid 179. The High Court cited Lord Diplock in Re Racal Communications Ltd [1981] AC 374,383.127 Ibid. This is the passage that was quoted by McHugh, Gummow and Hayne JJ in Yusuf.128 The distinction has now also been abolished in ......
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    • United Kingdom
    • Sage Journal of Criminal Law, The No. 85-1, February 2021
    • 1 February 2021
    ...effect even though they are subject to neitherjudicial review nor, if statute should so preclude, appeal (see Re Racal Communications Ltd [1981] AC 374, 384)—whose legalrulings cannot be corrected in a judicial forum should not, as a matter of principle, be allowed to strictly bind itself o......
  • ‘Australian Exceptionalism’ in Judicial Review
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage Federal Law Review No. 36-1, March 2008
    • 1 March 2008
    ...Law', above n 3, 118–19 (difference due to institutional design of separation-of-powers). 60 See Re Racal Communications Ltd [1981] AC 374, 382–3 (Lord Diplock); Bulk Gas Users Group v A-G [1983] NZLR 129, 133 (Cooke J). 2008 'Australian Exceptionalism' in Judicial Review 11 _______________......
  • Decisions of the extinct Appellate Committee of the House of Lords will continue to resonate in South African administrative, constitutional and international law
    • South Africa
    • Sabinet Southern African Public Law No. 28-2, January 2013
    • 1 January 2013
    ...3 of 2000. See Hoexter (n 59) 395, 424.782001 3 SA 472 (SCA).792004 5 SA 262 (SCA).802000 1 SA 1 (CC).81(N 65).82See Hoexter (n 59) 286.831981 AC 374. See O’Reilly v Mackman 1983 2 AC 237, 238.841992 4 SA 69 (A) 93-94.85(N 84).86(N 65).87Id.881997 3 SA 204 (A) Ext inct A ppell ate C ommi tt......
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