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To purchase an article, please email:\u00c2\u00a0LTA.Service@thomsonreuters.com<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0or\u00c2\u00a0contact us on 1300 304 195\u00c2\u00a0(Australian customers) or +61 2 8587 7980\u00c2\u00a0(international customers) during business hours\u00c2\u00a0(Mon-Fri, 8am-6pm AEST).<\/p>\n The latest issue of the Public Law Review<\/em> (Volume 30 Part 2) contains the following material:<\/p>\n COMMENTS<\/a> \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Editor: Dan Meagher<\/em><\/p>\n The Amenability of Private School Decisions to Judicial Review<\/em><\/strong><\/a> \u00e2\u20ac\u201c James J Anson-Holland<\/p>\n The question of whether private school decisions are amenable to judicial review has yet to be answered in New Zealand. This article discusses conflicting judicial and academic debate within the Commonwealth in order to conclude that private education is sufficiently public to attract judicial review and that, in any event, its contractual context justifies equivalent procedural protections as an implied term.<\/p>\n How and When Can a Constitutionally Valid Statute Become Invalid?<\/strong><\/em><\/a> \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Ben Ye<\/p>\n When a law is found unconstitutional, when does its invalidity commence? Conventional wisdom in Australia suggests that an invalid law is void ab initio; there is little scope for a law to start its life as valid but subsequently become invalid. By contrast, a law initially valid under the defence power can become invalid after the war\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s conclusion. Through a comparative analysis of the case law of the High Court and the US Supreme Court, this article argues that while the void ab initio doctrine may be the common and default approach to invalidity, the concept that an initially valid law can subsequently become invalid enjoys sound constitutional foundation in Australia. Applicable to both Commonwealth and State legislation, such a concept applies when a law\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s validity is contingent upon some constitutional fact.<\/p>\n Minority Government and the Validity of Standing Order Requirements for Absolute Majority Votes<\/strong><\/em><\/a> \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Anne Twomey<\/p>\n The Commonwealth Constitution provides that any question arising in a House of the Commonwealth Parliament shall be determined by a simple majority. Yet if a government slips into minority and the Opposition can muster a simple majority to vote for a private member\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Bill, it still faces the hurdle of a Standing Order requirement for an absolute majority in order to get its Bill debated. This article discusses the constitutional validity of any Standing Order that requires a vote by a special majority. It considers the previous legal advices on the topic, the distinction drawn between procedural and substantive votes, the question of whether a clash between the Standing Orders and the Constitution is justiciable and the difficult manner and form question of whether a House has the power to bind itself in this way.<\/p>\n DEVELOPMENTS<\/a><\/p>\n For the PDF\u00c2\u00a0version of the table of contents, click here: PLR Vol 30 No 2 Contents<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n
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