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maxtsu
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| Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2004 7:00 am Post subject: |
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Dr Strangelove wrote: maxtsu wrote: The highest court in Australia is the High Court in London.
No matter what a court says in Australia, London can over-rule it.
New Zealand changed that last year, their highest court is in Wellington.
I call it a bit too much attachment with the motherland.
G'day maxtsu,
I hate to disappoint you but the highest court in Australia is the High Court of Australia in Canberra.
The right to appeal to the Privy Council in London was done away with in the 1980s.
So in fact it is the Kiwis who were hanging onto the UK's coat tails for too long.
Appeals to the Privy Council from decisions of the High Court were effectively ended by the combined effects of the Privy Council (Limitation of Appeals) Act 1968 and the Privy Council (Appeals from the High Court) Act 1975. However, a right of appeal to the Privy Council remained from State courts, in matters governed by State law, until the passage of the Australia Acts, both State and Federal, in the 1980s.
http://www.hcourt.gov.au/about_02.html
I stand corrected.
http://www.wordiq.com/definition/Australia_Act
Quote: The Australia Act of 1986 (No. 142 of 1985) was assented to by His Excellency Sir Ninian Stephen, Governor-General of Australia, on December 4, 1985 and came into effect on March 2, 1986 by a proclamation signed by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II at Government House, Canberra.
The act made Australian law independent of the British legislature and judiciary. It was in fact the final one of seven acts created by the seven Australian parliaments required for such a constitutional change to the whole Federation. The parliament of the United Kingdom also passed an act to complete the process.
Therefore it was 1986.
I must have got duff info when New Zealand abolished their link.
But, the link still holds for the G-G to abolish parliament. Even though he would never do it. He was the power to do it. |
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thundertaker
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| Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2004 8:11 am Post subject: |
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| The Governor-General is australian anyway, so how is that evidence of dependence on Britain? |
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Golddave
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| Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2004 8:46 pm Post subject: |
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Dr Strangelove wrote: maxtsu wrote: The highest court in Australia is the High Court in London.
No matter what a court says in Australia, London can over-rule it.
New Zealand changed that last year, their highest court is in Wellington.
I call it a bit too much attachment with the motherland.
G'day maxtsu,
I hate to disappoint you but the highest court in Australia is the High Court of Australia in Canberra.
The right to appeal to the Privy Council in London was done away with in the 1980s.
So in fact it is the Kiwis who were hanging onto the UK's coat tails for too long.
Appeals to the Privy Council from decisions of the High Court were effectively ended by the combined effects of the Privy Council (Limitation of Appeals) Act 1968 and the Privy Council (Appeals from the High Court) Act 1975. However, a right of appeal to the Privy Council remained from State courts, in matters governed by State law, until the passage of the Australia Acts, both State and Federal, in the 1980s.
http://www.hcourt.gov.au/about_02.html
Stranglove, your alright man. |
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