Attorney General v Jones

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Judgment Date30 April 1999
Date30 April 1999
CourtQueen's Bench Division
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4 cases
  • R (Woolas) v Parliamentary Election Court for Oldham East and Saddleworth
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division (Administrative Court)
    • 3 December 2010
    ...did not regard it as inappropriate for the courts to have such a role is evident from the course adopted by the Speaker in Attorney-General v Jones [2000] QB 66. Mrs Fiona Jones was elected an MP in the 1997 General Election; she was then convicted of making a false declaration as to her el......
  • Questions Referred to the Court of Disputed Returns Pursuant to Section 376 of the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918 (Cth) Concerning Senator Rodney Norman Culleton
    • Australia
    • High Court
    • 3 February 2017
    ...Constitution, 6th ed (2015) at 23–31. 45Re Wakim; Ex parte McNally (1999) 198 CLR 511 at 552 [43] per McHugh J; [1999] HCA 27. 46 Cf Attorney-General v Jones [2000] QB 66 at 47Lange v Australian Broadcasting Corporation (1997) 189 CLR 520 at 557–559; [1997] HCA 25. 48 See and compare Sykes ......
  • Panday v Sampson
    • Trinidad & Tobago
    • Court of Appeal (Trinidad and Tobago)
    • 19 October 2007
    ...his conviction and sentence on the 20th March 2007. 12 Counsel for the appellant's arguments were strongly influenced by dicta in Attorney General v. Jones [2000] Q.B. 66. Pemberton, J. however, accepted the opposing arguments that Jones was decided in a different legislative context. The p......
  • Sampson v Panday
    • Trinidad & Tobago
    • High Court (Trinidad and Tobago)
    • 27 July 2007
    ...OF THE Constitution IN THE FACE OF CLEAR LEGISLATIVE PROVISIONS. One of the bases of the decision in the Jones (Attorney General v. Jones [2000] Q.B. 66) decision, which was decided in a totally different legislative context, was that the court could take into account the ‘interests of just......
1 books & journal articles
  • Cases
    • United Kingdom
    • Journal of Criminal Law, The No. 64-1, February 2000
    • 1 February 2000
    ...CasesA-GvJones(1999)3WLR44415A-G'sReference(No 3of1998)(1999) 3All ER 40 49A-G'sReference(No 61 of 1998) (R vLee)(1999)2Cr App R(S)22642BaileyvDPP(1999)163 JP5184BoodramvBaptiste (1999) 1WLR170974Campbell(Adolphus) vThe State(1999)(unreported,20August)66Customs&ExcisevBritishTelecommunicati......

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