See, eg, A Bill to Dodge’, The Australian (Sydney), 3 October 2008; CarrBob, ‘Lawyers are Already Drunk with Power’, The Australian, 24 April 2008; LightfootRoss, Australians' Rights are Already Protected’, Online Opinion, 15 November 2000; Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Radio National, The Law Report, ‘Charter of Rights: Different Views from Across the North and South of the Murray’, 10 June 2008; AlbrechtsenJanet, ‘Conservatives Must Join Rights Talks’, The Australian, 5 December 2007.
6.
Rice, above n 4.
7.
See also RuddockPhillip, ‘Bills of Rights do not Protect Freedoms’, Sydney Morning Herald, 31 August 2007.
8.
Department for Constitutional Affairs, Review of the Implementation of the Human Rights Act, July 2006.
9.
Ibid30.
10.
Ibid.
11.
This refers to the title of an article by AllanJames: ‘Siren Songs and Myths in the Bill of Rights Debate’49Papers on Parliament25.
12.
081485 [2008] QCCS2709. AllanJames, ‘Don't entrust liberty to madcap judges’, The Australian, 17 July 2008.
13.
Ibid.
14.
Ibid.
15.
Droit de la famille 081485 [2008] QCCS2709 [7].
16.
The mother supported the daughter's challenge to the father's punishment: ibid [6].
17.
Ibid [8].
18.
Ibid [16].
19.
(1995) 3 SCR 199 (‘RJR’).
20.
Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), Radio National, National Interest, ‘Labor's Poisoned Charter’, 29 April 2007.
21.
Allan, above n11, 34.
22.
ABC, above n 20 (AllanJames).
23.
Charter of Human Rights and Responsibilities Act 2006 (Vic) s 6(1).
24.
Tobacco Products Control Act, SC 1988, s 20, s 3.
25.
RJR MacDonald Inc v Canada (Attorney-General) (‘RJR’) (1995) 3 SCR 199 [61] (La Forrest, L'Heaureux-Dube and Gonthier JJ).
26.
Tobacco Products Control Act, SC 1988, c 20, s 4.
27.
Tobacco Products Control Act, SC 1988, s 9.
28.
RJR, above n 24, [159] (McLachlin CJ, with whom Sopinka and Major JJ agree).
29.
Ibid [187] (Lacbucci J, with whom Lamer CJ agrees).
30.
Ibid [186] (Lacobucci J, with whom Lamer CJ agrees). See also [152], [166]–[167] (McLachlin CJ, with whom Sopinka and Major JJ agree).
31.
Canada (Attorney-General) v JTI-MacDonald Corp (2007) SCC30.
32.
Tobacco Act 1997, SC 1997, c 13, s 22(2)
33.
Tobacco Act 1997, SC 1997, ss 18–19.
34.
Tobacco Act 1997, SC 1997, s 20.
35.
Tobacco Act 1997, SC 1997, s 22(3).
36.
Tobacco Act 1997, SC 1997, ss 24–25.
37.
Canada (Attorney-General) v JTI-MacDonald Corp (2007) SCC30 [68].
38.
These countries include: Belgium (Courde Cassation, Journal des Tribunaux, 19 February 1983); Iceland (JT International SA et al v State of Iceland, 6 April 2006, Iceland Supreme Court No. 220/2005); France (Conseil constitutionnel, Decision 90–283 DC, du 8 janvier 1991); Slovenia (Constitutional Court, Official Journal of the Republic of Slovenia, No 104, p 10954, 22 November 2001); Finland (Constitutional Committee, Parliament of Finland, Report No 4, 27 April 1976).
39.
This finding has been made by courts in France (Comite national contre le tabagisme c La Societe British American Tobacco Europe BV et al, Arret 2508, du 3 mai 2006, Cour de Cassation, Chambre criminelle) and Iceland (JT International SA et al v State of Iceland, 6 April 2006, Iceland Supreme Court No 220/2005).
40.
C 380/03 Germany v European Parliament [2006] ECR1–11573.
41.
Carr, above n 5. See also ABC, above n 5.
42.
Carr, above n 5.
43.
Wilson v British Columbia (Medical Services Commission) (1988) 53 DLR (4th) 171 (‘Wilson’).
44.
Wilson (1988) 53 DLR (4th) 171 at 189.
45.
See, eg, Waldman v British Columbia (Medical Services Commission) (1997) 1 50 DLR (4th) 405 (on appeal, Waldman v British Columbia (Medical Services Commission) (1999) 177 DLR (4th) 321) (‘Waldman’).
46.
Waldman v British Columbia (Medical Services Commission) (1999) 177 DLR (4th) 321 [49] (Hall J, with whom Rowles and Prowse JJ agree).
47.
Ibid [52] (Hall J, with whom Rowles and Prowse JJ agree). A similar conclusion was reached in Rombaut v New Brunswick (Minister of Health and Community Services) [2001] NBJ243.
48.
Ibid [49]–[50] (Hall J, with whom Rowles and Prowse JJ agree).
