Saraswati v R
| Jurisdiction | Australia Federal only |
| Neutral Citation | [1991] HCA 21,1991-0605 HCA B |
| Year | 1991 |
| Date | 1991 |
| Court | High Court |
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A PURPOSIVE APPROACH TO INTERPRETING AUSTRALIA'S COMPLEMENTARY PROTECTION REGIME.
...on the understanding that a legislature ordinarily intends to pursue its purposes by coherent means.' See also Saraswati v The Queen (1991) 172 CLR 1, 21 (McHugh In many cases, the grammatical or literal meaning of a statutory provision will give effect to the purpose of the legislation. Co......
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Outside the Text: Inside the use of Extrinsic Materials in Statutory Interpretation
...Senator Hill. See Commonwealth, Parliamentary Debates, Senate, 30 March 1984, 961 (Senator Robert Hill). 38 See Saraswati v T he Queen (1991) 172 CLR 1, 22–3 where McHugh J summarises the three limbs in the context of the NSW equivalent of s 15AB. 39 Acts Interpretation Act 1901 (Cth) s 15A......
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Re Civilian Casualty Court Martial: prosecuting breaches of international humanitarian law using the Australian military justice system.
...(2004) 137 FCR 520, 527 [7] (Black CJ, Wilcox and Gyles JJ). In that sense, the facts were similar to those of Saraswati v The Queen (1991) 172 CLR 1. (41) Hoffman (2004) 137 FCR 520, 533 [31]-[37] (Black CJ, Wilcox and Gyles (42) Ibid 534 [40]. See also Jones v Chief of Navy (2012) 205 FCR......
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THE KIRK STRUCTURAL CONSTITUTIONAL IMPLICATION.
...C Pearce and Robert S Geddes, Statutory Interpretation in Australia (Lexis-Nexis Butterworths, 8th ed, 2014) 328; Saraswati v The Queen (1991) 172 CLR 1, 17 (Gaudron J) ('Saraswati'). (159) See Crawford (n 15) 159, 163-9. (160) See Stellios, Zines (n 2) 463-4. See, eg, Union Steamship (n 13......