ON 9 AUGUST 2001, the High Court of Australia delivered Roy Morgan Research Centre Pty Ltd v Commissioner of State Revenue (Vic) [2001] HCA 49; 207 CLR 72; 181 ALR 307; 75 ALJR 1342 (9 August 2001).
http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/cases/cth/HCA/1998/68.html
A provision conferring jurisdiction on a court is to be liberally construed (at [11]).
Statutory interpretation should begin with consideration of the text of the legislation. Judicial exposition should not be favoured over analysis of the legislation itself (at [9], [46]-[51]).
A judge has an obligation to state his or her reasons (at [32]-[33]).
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