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Lisa Burton Crawford The Rule of Law and the Australian Constitution- Janina Boughey Human Rights and Judicial Review in Australia and Canada: The Newest Despotism?

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Lisa Burton Crawford The Rule of Law and the Australian Constitution
Janina Boughey Human Rights and Judicial Review in Australia and Canada: The Newest Despotism?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2025

Robert French AC
Robert French AC*
Affiliation:
Monash University
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Federal Law Review , Volume 45 , Issue 4 , December 2017 , pp. 725 - 731
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Copyright © 2017 The Australian National University

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Footnotes

This is an edited version of a speech launching the two books.

References

1 Richard, H Fallon Jr, ‘”The Rule of Law” as a Concept in Constitutional Discourse’ (1997) 97 Columbia Law Review 1Google Scholar, 1.

2 Lisa, Burton Crawford, The Rule of Law and the Australian Constitution (Federation Press, 2017) 158Google Scholar.

3 Australian Communist Party v The Commonwealth (1951) 83 CLR 1 (‘Communist Party Case’).

4 Ibid 193.

5 Communist Party Dissolution Act 1950 (Cth).

6 Crawford, above n 2, 76.

7 Ibid 80.

8 Ibid 81.

9 Ibid.

10 Ibid 133.

11 Robert, French, ‘Common Law Constitutionalism’ (2016) 14 New Zealand Journal of Public and International Law 153Google Scholar.

12 Crawford, above n 2, 202.

13 Ibid.

14 Janina, Boughey, Human Rights and Judicial Review in Australia and Canada: The Newest Despotism? (Hart Publishing, 2017), 7Google Scholar.

15 Ibid 13.

16 Mabo v Queensland (No 2) (1992) 175 CLR 1.

17 Ibid 42. See also Dietrich v The Queen (1992) 177 CLR 292, 319.

18 John, Braithwaite, ‘Community Values and Australian Jurisprudence’ (1995) 17 Sydney Law Review 351Google Scholar; Klaus, Ziegert, ‘Judicial Decision-making, Community and Consented Values: Some Remarks on Braithwaite's Republican Model’ (1995) 17 Sydney Law Review 373Google Scholar; M, Krygier and A, Glass, ‘Shaky Premises: Values, Attitudes and the Law’ (1995) 17 Sydney Law Review 385Google Scholar; M, Allars, ‘Citizenship Theory and the Public Confidence Rationale for the Bias Rule’ (2001) 18 Law in Context 12Google Scholar.

19 Braithwaite, above n 18, 354.

20 Ibid 372.

21 Ibid 353.

22 [2012] 1 SCR 395.

23 Ibid 415 [30].

24 Ibid 421 [45].

25 ‘Chevron deference’ is a reference to the doctrine enunciated by the Supreme Court of the United States in Chevron US Inc v National Resources Defense Council Inc 467 US 837 (1984). For a general discussion of the alternative meanings of that concept in United States jurisprudence see Stephen, Gageler, ‘Deference’ (2015) 22 Australian Journal of Administrative Law 151Google Scholar.

26 Boughey, above n 15, 228.

27 Canada Act 1982 (UK) c 11, sch B pt I.

28 Canadian Bill of Rights, SC 1960, c 44.

29 Boughey, above n 15, 119.

30 (1985) 159 CLR 550.

31 Mark, Aronson, Matthew, Groves and Greg, Weeks, Judicial Review of Administrative Action and Government Liability (Thomson Reuters, 6th ed, 2017)Google Scholar [7.80].

32 Boughey, above n 15, 122.

33 Ibid 123.

34 Public Service Board of NSW v Osmond (1986) 159 CLR 656; Wingfoot Australia Partners Pty Ltd v Kocak (2013) 252 CLR 480, 497–8 [43] (footnote omitted).

35 Boughey, above n 15, 280

36 Ibid.