Ex parte Professional Engineers' Association

(1959) 107 CLR 208
[1959] HCA 47

Ex parte Professional Engineers' Association

Court:
High Court of Australia

Judges: Dixon CJ
McTiernan J
Fullagar J
Kitto J
Taylor J
Windeyer J

Subject References:
Constitutional Law (Cth)

Hearing date: 2-3, 6-10, 13-15 April 1959
Judgment date: 9 September 1959

Sydney


ORDER

Orders nisi for prohibition discharged.

Order nisi for mandamus made absolute directed to the respondents who are members of the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission commanding them or such of them as continue pursuant to s. 34 of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act 1904-1959 to form the commission constituted for the hearing and determination of the proceedings designated "Dispute C. No. 630 of 1957" and "Dispute C. No. 631 of 1957" to proceed according to law with the hearing and determination thereof.

Order that the costs of the above named Association of Professional Engineers, Australia, of the order nisi for mandamus be paid by the respondents the State of New South Wales the Water Conservation and Irrigation Commission, the Metropolitan Water Sewerage and Drainage Board and the Hunter District Water Board and that the costs of the order nisi for prohibition in which the State of New South Wales and others were prosecutors be paid by the said prosecutors and that the costs of the order nisi for prohibition in which the Council of the City of Sydney is prosecutor be paid by the said prosecutor.