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Roach v Electoral Commissioner [1] [2] is a High Court of Australia case, decided in 2007, dealing with the validity of Commonwealth legislation that prevented prisoners from voting. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The Court held that the 2006 amendments [ 4 ] were inconsistent with the system of representative democracy established by the Constitution .
Momcilovic v The Queen - in which the court dealt with, among other things, the interaction between the principle of legality and s32(1) of the Charter of Human Rights and Responsibilities Act 2006 (Vic); a legislative section that on its face imposes a similar interpretive process to the principle of legality.
Roach swore allegiance to the Queen of Canada twice before: once as a reservist in the 1950s, and again when he was called to the Bar. [ 7 ] In 1992, Roach argued in the Federal Court of Canada that the Canadian oath for new citizens , which includes a statement of allegiance to the Canadian monarch , was a violation of the Charter of Rights ...
R v Malmo-Levine; R v Caine [2003] 3 S.C.R. 571, 2003 SCC 74, is a Supreme Court of Canada decision that Parliament had the authority to criminalize the possession and trafficking of marijuana, and that power did not infringe on the section 7 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
In 1880, the Supreme Court of Canada decision in City of Fredericton v The Queen [2] held that the law was intra vires under the federal trade and commerce power. That decision was not appealed. In a separate case two years later, Charles Russell, a local pub owner, was convicted under the Canada Temperance Act of selling alcohol. The ...
Arms of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. R v Hughes, Reyes v R and Fox v R were a trilogy of closely related cases considered by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (JCPC), with the appeals heard together and the decisions released simultaneously on the 11 March 2002.
[8] The case concerned the 2006 amendments in the context of the 2010 federal election . On Saturday 17 July 2010 it was announced that there was to be an election, [ 9 ] and the Governor General issued a writ of election on Monday 19 July, [ 10 ] for an election to be held on Saturday 21 August. [ 9 ]
The book picks up after the events of The Queen of Attolia when the Medes failed to establish the Queen of Attolia as a puppet monarch.Nahuseresh, the Medean ambassador and his slave Kamet were forced to flee the country after the botched invasion.