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The U.N. itself has established the Office on Genocide Prevention and the Responsibility to Protect and asserts that the obligation to prevent and punish genocide “have been considered as norms of international customary law and therefore, binding on all States, whether or not they have ratified the Genocide Convention.” If you can Read More …
Being forced by an employer, restaurant, medical facility or even friend to download the Covid Safe App? Australian Privacy Laws protect you from such harassment and interference with your privacy. To impose such obligations on anyone within Australia brings a 5 year jail term or 300 penalty unit punishment to the offended. PRIVACY Read More …
Form 1 – Request to inspect or obtain copy of court record (PDF) Listen Form 1 – Request to inspect or obtain copy of court record (Word) Listen Form 1A – Application for Leave to Lodge a Document (PDF) Listen Form 1A – Application for Leave to Lodge a Document (Word) Listen Form Read More …
Constitution Watch would like to thank Maddocks lawyers for the extensive checklist stating the requirement of what construes a valid infringement notice in the State of Victoria. These points are found in the relevant regulations. Quite often agencies hope you are unaware of these requirements for the infringement to be a valid infringement, it is Read More …
BARTON J. The legislation of a body created by and acting under a written charter or constitution is valid only so far as it conforms to the authority conferred by that instrument of government. Therefore attempted legislation, merely at variance with the charter or constitution, cannot be held an effective law on the ground that the authority conferred by that instrument includes a power to alter or to repeal any part of it, if the Read More …
Recommendation 14–1 Commonwealth, state and territory governments should review police procedures and practices so that the law is enforced fairly, equally and without discrimination with respect to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. 14.19 Throughout this Inquiry, a number of stakeholders informed the ALRC that police practices and policies contribute to the over-incarceration of Aboriginal Read More …
As in other organisations, officers in a police service, from the Commissioner to the officer on patrol, are all called upon to exercise discretion. The focus in this article, however, is exclusively on the generally “lower level” exercise of discretion with respect to law enforcement (investigation, search, arrest, prosecution, etc) and public order policing, in Read More …
Is the Governor Generals Oath to the Monarch consistent with the requirements of the Letter Patent commanding the oath of allegiance to be that of the Schedule within an Act to constitute the Commonwealth of Australia? 4 pages, see section V. COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA CONSTITUTION ACT – SCHEDULE OATH I, A.B. , do Read More …
42. In all the actions or matters referred to in the last preceding section, the judges shall, in addition to the powers and authorities now possessed by them or conferred upon them by this Act, have all the powers and authorities for the purposes of this Act of the judges of the Supreme Court, and Read More …
Page 324, Section 36A (2) Subject to sub-section (I) and unless otherwise expressly provided the County Court shall have jurisdiction and powers with respect to indictable offences and the trial thereof as fully and amply to all intents and purposes as the Supreme Court of Victoria in like matters and the general principles of practice and Read More …