Bribery Commissioner v Ranasinghe

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Judgment Date1964
Date1964
CourtPrivy Council
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78 cases
  • Ebanks (AG) v R
    • Cayman Islands
    • Court of Appeal (Cayman Islands)
    • 3 December 2007
    ...Jefri) v. Brunei Darussalam (State), [2007] UKPC 62, dicta of Lord Bingham of Cornhill applied. (3) Bribery Commr. v. Ranasinghe, [1965] A.C. 172; [1964] 2 All E.R. 785; (1964), 108 Sol. Jo. 441, dicta of Lord Pearce applied. (4) Deaton v. Att. Gen., [1963] I.R. 170, dicta of Ó Dálaigh, C.J......
  • DPP of Jamaica v Mollison
    • Jamaica
    • Court of Appeal (Jamaica)
    • 29 May 2000
    ...with Chapter III and cannot be challenged in Court. In this context the words of Lord Pearce in the Bribery Commission v Ranasinghe 1965 A.C. 172 at page 194 are appropriate. They read: "The court has a duty to see that the Constitution is not infringed and to preserve it inviolate. Unless,......
  • Hilroy Humphreys Claimant v Attorney General of Antigua and Barbuda Defendant. [ECSC]
    • Antigua and Barbuda
    • High Court (Antigua)
    • 21 December 2006
    ...altering this Constitution unless it is stated in the Act that it is an Act for that purpose." 2 See BRIBERY COMMISSIONER v RANASINGHE [1964] 2 WLR 1301. 3 Now known as SRI LANKA. 4 Per Lord Diplock — HINDS v R [1976] 2 WLR, 386. 1 See para. 7 of the affidavit. 1 The dictum reads: "The fund......
  • Trinidad Island-Wide Cane Farmers' Association Inc. and Attorney General v Prakash Seereeram
    • Trinidad & Tobago
    • Court of Appeal (Trinidad and Tobago)
    • Invalid date
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6 books & journal articles
  • Human Rights Protection in Australia: Interpretation Provisions and Parliamentary Supremacy
    • United Kingdom
    • Federal Law Review No. 32-1, March 2004
    • 1 March 2004
    ...(1996) 186 CLR 140, 209 n 342 (Toohey J); without deciding it, Gummow J raised this possibility at 296–7. 22 [1952] 2 SALR 428, 464. 23 [1965] AC 172, 197. 24 Ibid. For a discussion of these possibilities, see Carolyn Evans, 'Entrenching Constitutional Reform in Australia' (2003) Public Law......
  • Human Rights Protection in Australia: Interpretation Provisions and Parliamentary Supremacy
    • United Kingdom
    • Federal Law Review No. 32-1, March 2004
    • 1 March 2004
    ...(1996) 186 CLR 140, 209 n 342 (Toohey J); without deciding it, Gummow J raised this possibility at 296–7. 22 [1952] 2 SALR 428, 464. 23 [1965] AC 172, 197. 24 Ibid. For a discussion of these possibilities, see Carolyn Evans, 'Entrenching Constitutional Reform in Australia' (2003) Public Law......
  • Politics, law and the Constitution in McCawley's case.
    • Australia
    • Melbourne University Law Review Vol. 30 No. 3, December 2006
    • 1 December 2006
    ...and Territories (2006) ch 6. (342) A-G (NSW) v Trethowan (1931) 44 CLR 394, 429-30 (Dixon J). (343) Bribery Commissioner v Ranasinghe [1965] AC 172, 197 (Lord Pearce), considered in A-G (WA) v Marquet (2003) 217 CLR 545, 574 (Gleeson CJ, Gummow, Hayne and Heydon JJ), 616-17 (Kirby (344) A-G......
  • In A Fix: Fixed-Term Parliaments in the Australian States
    • United Kingdom
    • Federal Law Review No. 41-2, June 2013
    • 1 June 2013
    ...v Wilsmore [1981] WAR 179, 184 (Burt CJ). See also Boath v Wyvill (1989) 85 ALR 621, 636. Regarding Bribery Commissioner v Ranasinghe [1965] AC 172, 197, see Victoria v Commonwealth (1975) 134 CLR 81, 164 (Gibbs J). 266 A-G (WA) v Marquet (2003) 217 CLR 545, 572 (Gleeson CJ, Gummow, Hayne a......
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