Wednesday, October 26, 2005

Courts' role in new laws called into question / The Age, 26 Oct 2005

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"THE key problem facing new anti-terror legislation is whether federal courts have the authority to issue control orders or preventive detention orders against individuals, constitutional law expert Simon Evans said. As queries over the legality of the Federal Government's new proposals widened, Dr Evans, the director of Melbourne University's Centre for Comparative Constitutional Studies, said the High Court would have to resolve whether the courts had authority to make the orders."