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  2. Roach v Electoral Commissioner - Wikipedia

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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 .

  3. Principle of Legality (Australia) - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Charles Roach - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. R v Malmo-Levine; R v Caine - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. Russell v The Queen - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  7. R v Hughes - Wikipedia

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    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. Rowe v Electoral Commissioner - Wikipedia

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    [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 ]

  9. Thick as Thieves (Turner novel) - Wikipedia

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    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.