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Parliamentary Sovereignity and Dialogue Under the Victorian Charter of Human Rights and Responsibilities: Drawing the Line Between Judicial Interpretation and Judicial Law-Making

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posted on 2019-10-29, 08:33 authored by Julie Debeljak
In 2005, the Victorian Government established the Human Rights Consultation Committee to undertake a community consultation about the state of rights in Victoria. The main recommendation of the Committee was the enactment of a domestic rights instrument for Victoria. The Victorian Government accepted the recommendation and, by mid-2006, the Victorian Parliament had enacted the Charter of Human Rights and Responsibilities Act 2006 (Vie). The Charter is based largely on the British Human Rights Act 1998 (UK) ('HRA'). This article explores some of the substantive dficulties with the adoption of the British model given the twin stated aims of the Victorian Government to preserve parliamentary sovereignty and to establish an educative inter- institutional dialogue. In particular, it explores how the mechanisms adopted to preserve parliamentary sovereignty - the s 32 judicial power of rights- compatible interpretation and the s 36 judicial power of declaration -may, in fact, undermine parliamentary sovereignty, threaten the educative dialogue amongst the differently placed, skilled and motivated arms of government, erode the justijicatory and accountability aspects of rights instruments, and undermine the protection of rights.

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Publication Date

2007

Volume

33

Issue

1

Type

Article

Pages

9–71

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Julie Debeljak, 'Parliamentary Sovereignity and Dialogue Under the Victorian Charter of Human Rights and Responsibilities: Drawing the Line Between Judicial Interpretation and Judicial Law-Making' (2007) 33(1) Monash University Law Review 8

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