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    Sir Owen Dixon OM GCMG PC (28 April 1886 – 7 July 1972) was an Australian judge and diplomat who served as the sixth Chief Justice of Australia. Many consider...
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  • S. Dixon (1825–1891), chief justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court Sir Owen Dixon (1886–1972), sixth chief justice of Australia William C. Dixon (1904–1997)...
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    these suggestions. Sir Owen Dixon criticized India for its negative reactions to all the demilitarization proposals. Sir Owen Dixon took India to task in...
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    1964, Menzies nominated Barwick as his choice to replace the retiring Owen Dixon as Chief Justice. Over the next 17 years, the Barwick court decided many...
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    Australian jurist, Sir Owen Dixon, arrived in the sub-continent, as the one man successor to UNCIP...Patel wrote to Nehru that Dixon was working to bring...
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    The High Court exercises both original and appellate jurisdiction. Sir Owen Dixon said on his swearing in as Chief Justice of Australia in 1952: The High...
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    majorities decades later. Evatt could, however, be partial on the bench. Sir Owen Dixon noted in Australian Woollen Mills Ltd v F.S. Walton & Co. Ltd (1937 58...
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    Owen Cunningham Wilson (born November 18, 1968) is an American actor and comedian. He has frequently worked with filmmaker Wes Anderson, with whom he has...
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  • 18:38 the title of a book by Aldous Huxley the title of a book by Sir Owen Dixon This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Jesting...
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    (PDF) on 2012-03-28. Retrieved 2012-03-12. This view was expressed by Sir Owen Dixon, Chief Justice of Australia, on his swearing-in as Chief Justice Archived...
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  • Monica Dixon, American political organiser Mort Dixon (1892–1956), American lyricist Norman F. Dixon (1922–2013), British psychologist Sir Owen Dixon, Chief...
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  • St. Monica's Primary School oval. Evatt is bordered by Copland Drive, Owen Dixon Drive, William Webb Drive and Ginninderra Drive. The first school in the...
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  • Court Owen Dixon (1886–1972), Chief Justice of Australia Owen Roberts (1875–1955), associate justice of the United States Supreme Court Owen Thomas Rouse...
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    John Curtin (1941–42) Preceded by Office established Succeeded by Sir Owen Dixon Treasurer of Australia In office 3 October 1935 – 26 April 1939 Prime...
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  • included Malcolm Fraser, Douglas Mawson, former Australian Chief Justice Sir Owen Dixon, Sydney's late-19th-century, early-20th-century Catholic Archbishop Patrick...
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    retirement in March 1949. He later acted as the Military Advisor to Sir Owen Dixon, United Nations Mediator to Kashmir. On 22 June 1928, Hodges married a...
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  • has remarked that the 'test has not enjoyed universal favour'. However, Owen Dixon CJ made clear that 'the question is essentially one of connexion, not...
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    brief dismissal of an application for a certificate, Chief Justice Sir Owen Dixon said: "experience shows – and that experience was anticipated when s....
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    is a major case dealing with the separation of powers in Australian law. Dixon, McTiernan, Fullagar and Kitto held that it was:: p 296  impossible to escape...
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  • Alexander (1930), Gilbert Murray (1941), Sir Macfarlane Burnet (1958), Sir Owen Dixon (1963), Howard Florey, Baron Florey (1965), Sir Sidney Nolan (1983), Dame...
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    originated the "Briginshaw standard", a legal doctrine deriving from Justice Dixon's obiter remarks within the case. In its present application, Briginshaw...
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    such as the High Court and the Federal Circuit Court of Australia in the Owen Dixon Commonwealth Law Courts Building on the corner of La Trobe Street and...
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    favourable to the Commonwealth. However, after pressure from Justice Owen Dixon, Chief Justice John Latham contacted Webb and encouraged him not to leave...
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  • Seminar), Judicial Impartiality eNews, February 2021 Washington Diaries of Owen Dixon: Review by Justice Lee, Southern Highlands Newsletter #241, March 2021...
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    Council Resolution 91, adopted on March 30, 1951, noting a report by Sir Owen Dixon, the United Nations Representative for India and Pakistan, stating that...
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    on an implication from the text or structure of the Constitution. Sir Owen Dixon, in particular, was critical of any such overblown reading of the Engineers...
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    of Australia (Richard Casey), a future Chief Justice of Australia (Sir Owen Dixon), a future Governor of Tasmania (James Plimsoll), three former federal...
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    by Sir Isaac Isaacs Preceded by Sir Frank Gavan Duffy Succeeded by Sir Owen Dixon Attorney-General of Australia In office 6 January 1932 – 12 October 1934...
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  • Robert Menzies Opposition Leader – Arthur Calwell Chief Justice – Sir Owen Dixon (until 13 April), then Sir Garfield Barwick Premier of New South Wales...
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    principal. In 1975, Preshil purchased former chief justice of Australia, Sir Owen Dixon's home in Kew 'Yallambee' after he died. The interior was gutted to construct...
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