(High Court of Australia) The court considered the power to create laws for the colonies: ‘The correct general principle is . . whether the law in question can be truly described as being for the peace, order and good government of the Dominion concerned . . The judgment of Lord Macmillan [in Croft v Dunphy [1933] AC 156] affirms the broad principle that the powers possessed are to be treated as analogous to those of ‘a fully sovereign state’, so long as they answer the description of laws for the peace, order, and good government of the constitutional unit in question . .’
Judges:
Evatt J
Citations:
(1933) 49 CLR 220
Jurisdiction:
Australia
Cited by:
Cited – Bancoult, Regina (on the Application of) v Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (No 2) Admn 11-May-2006
The claimant on behalf of himself and other islanders sought a declaration that the 2004 Order was unlawful. The islands had been emptied of people in 1973 and before in order to allow use of the islands as military bases. He had enjoyed a right to . .
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Updated: 01 May 2022; Ref: scu.242141