Winfat Enterprise (HK) Company Ltd v Attorney General of Hong Kong
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Judgment Date | 11 March 1985 |
| Date | 11 March 1985 |
| Court | Privy Council |
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33 cases
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R (Bancoult) v Secretary of State for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office
...in British constitutional language, the widest law-making powers appropriate to a sovereign". This was approved in Winfat Enterprises [1985] 1 AC 733, 747 (which shows also that it makes no difference to the power's breadth that the colonial legislature in question is not established on rep......
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R (Bancoult) v Foreign Secretary (No 2)
...quoting in the latter part Riel v The Queen (1885) 10 App Cas 675 (PC), 678, per Lord Halsbury LC; and see also Winfat Enterprise (HK) Co Ltd v Attorney General of Hong Kong [1985] AC 733. In Croft v Dunphy Lord Macmillan went on at p 165: "When a power is conferred to legislate on a parti......
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Chagos Islanders v Attorney General and Another
...powers appropriate to a Sovereign". This was not an unusual conclusion for in Winfat Enterprise (Hong Kong) Co Ltd v A-G of Hong Kong [1985] AC 733, the Privy Council remarked that that had been repeatedly stated. It was argued in Liyanage v The Queen [1967] 1 AC 259 PC, again in relation t......
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Mabo v State of Queensland (No2)
...370–2 [10 Ann Dig 98.] 113. (1924) LR 51 Ind App, at 360 114. Cook v SpriggELR [1899] AC 572, at 578–9; Winfat Ltd v Attorney-GeneralELR [1985] AC 733, at 746 [77 ILR 376.] 115. (1924) LR 51 Ind App, at 361 116. As in Secretary of State in Council of India v Kamachee Boye SahabaENRENR (1859......
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