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right to make or unmake any law whatsoever, - an unfettered and unchallenged jurisdicition DICEY |
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| Pickin vs British Railway board |
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| Courts can intrepret statutes but cannot question whether something should be a statue or not |
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| Bill of Rights Article 9, 1689 |
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| Proceeding in Parliament cannot be challenged outside Parliment. |
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| Parliamnet may ban smoking on the streets of paris if it wishes |
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| Statutes overrider international treaties. |
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| Treates must be enacted to have domestic effect. (by parliament) |
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| Madzimbamuto vs Lardner Burke |
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| statutes overrider conventions. |
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| Burmah Oil vs lord Adovcate |
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| Statute may operate retrospetively (War Damage act. |
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| Burmah Oil vs lord Adovcate |
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| Statute may operate retrospetively (War Damage act. |
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| The acts of the Union 1707 |
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| no part of scots law may be altered save for the evident utility of subjects in scotland |
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| ellen street estates vs Minister for Health |
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| Doctrine of implied repeal (latter act prevails perserving supremacy of temporal parliment. |
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| Thorburn vs Sunderland City Council |
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| Ordinary statutes are subject to implied repeal, consitutional statues are not. |
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| AG for New South Wales vs Tretmorthan |
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| Manner and form prevosions re methodolgy of parliment are binding on australian parliment. |
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| Consitutional Conventions |
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| Passage of legislation, passing between the houses. Assent by the queen, 4-5 year elections |
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| Jackson vs Attorney General |
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| relationship of delegate legislation to statue |
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| EC Legilation will be given primacy over UK legislation if incompatbile. |
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| Factortame similar. (ec legislation given primacy over UK) |
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